Tuesday, August 03, 2010

A real get-away. Day one.

> My wife and I went insane and decided to take our children most of
> the way accross the country to her sisters wedding. It's goin. To
> take two days to get there and two days to get back.
>
> I think I'd rather eat live toads than do this, but it's too late
> now, we're committed. Or should be committed, I don't know which.
>
> Day one was insane. We left three hours later than we planned, no
> one was interested in cooperating so they just screamed the whole
> time we were on the road, and we didn't get dinner until almost 10
> o'clock. So much for family fun.
>
> But the good part of the trip is that we will be seeing family we
> haven't seen in ten years or longer. This is the first time we've
> had access to time/transportation/gas money. Really. In ten years.
>
> Since we moved from the Midwest, We've had 6 jobs, 3 kids, 5 dogs
> (that we kept - more pups we gave away), 3 birds, 5 houses, 6
> vehicles, and who knows how many adventures. We've got a lot of
> catching up to do.
>
> Tomorrow is day two. Sigh.