About the journaling. Ron and I were determined to keep notes about the trip while it was happening, so we summarized each day on the laptop. Ron did most of the typing, and his writing style is, shall we say, very detail-oriented. Here's an actual excerpt from his recounting of our first evening:
"We were pretty hungry, so we asked at the desk for a casual place to eat and they suggested Keg Caesar’s, which is a steak and ribs place a block from the hotel. We hiked over and had a wonderful meal, along with several glasses of water and half a liter of red wine. I had roast beef; Cyndi had a grilled chicken and seafood dish. We walked back to the hotel and turned in."
Several glasses of water?? I would have written "We had dinner and went to bed." Something in between the two is what is required, since my style is boring and Ron's would require several volumes. So that is my current challenge, editing the journaling to something manageable and hopefully maybe even interesting.
I was a bad, bad scrapping mom in Knoxville and didn't take a single photo. We took the kids to tour a local dairy (very cool) and Mary Beth and I went to see Mamma Mia (LOVED IT!) and had a kids-free dinner thanks to MB's sweet husband Brad (who also won Annamarie over by showing her surgery photos on his iPhone). Mary Beth, I have just three words for you: MOVE BACK HERE. What were you thinking moving so far away?
Michele has asked me if Annamarie drove me crazy talking on the 7-hour drive, but she is a surprisingly good traveler. She brings her iPod and a big bag of jewelry, hairnets, a stethoscope or two, a stuffed horse and wolf, 64 ink pens, and she entertains herself. I won't say that I never ordered her to please just stop talking until the clock says 7:15, but mostly she was great. It helped that there was no brother to fight with, but she missed him too. (Michele, I am too old to text with one hand so I couldn't respond to your texts well while driving
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Think of how good those notes of Ron's would be say if you ended up with a rare form of food poisoning that developed several months after the fact. Could be useful...just saying.
Well pack that loot and kid in the van and head on over to Nebraska.
I've got to say I LOVE Ron's journaling. Just be thankful you weren't eating a double bacon cheeseburger, heavy on the guacamole.
Of all the things AM packed for her trip, the hairnets (plural, yet!) made me giggle the hardest.
Yes. So thankful she packed hairnets! Cuz you just never know, eh? You could get pulled over for speeding (hahaha) and just yell at her to put the net on and tell the cop you are taking her to work....
But come to think of it, I bet a hair net is helpful when you have the windows rolled down. Maybe it helps keep the hair out of your eyes and mouth? Where can I buy a box of hairnets?
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