Day 1- 3: Start of Vacation

Originally, back in March or so,

 Todd and I planned

on doing a staycation this summer.

We had the wonderful cruise to Alaska

last year, so we figured we would

keep it low key and get some things

done around the house this year.

Around May we decided that was dumb,

and tried to scrape together some

plans to do something.

Well...we just returned from our summer vacation.

It was 9 days (2 were Sat and Sun).

Not the relaxing time I had hoped for,

but nice still the same...

anytime you don't have to work it's nice!

My official vacation started Friday at 5 PM,

as soon as I got off work.

I went to leave my office, and of course,

I couldn't locate my keys.

Great start, right?

Ends up that I had left the keys in my car

because I had set them down so I could

pick something else up....idiot!!!!

The evening improved, however,

when we took the kids for dinner.

They had to prep their apartment

because they are both moving out,

so we figured we'd provide

them with some sustenance.

The evening got a lot better when we stopped

for some yummy ice cream at a local

ice cream and candy shop before they left.

I basically ran errands and Todd

did yardwork all day Saturday.

Then we turned around Sunday and traveled

two hours to bring Todd's trailer

to the kids apartment in order

to move their larger items.

It just so happened to be about 100 degrees,

which believe it or not was much

better than the 105 - 109 degrees

that it had been a couple days earlier.

It took us a few hours to move stuff

to Austin's new little house

and load Lexxa's on the trailer.

After we finished, we turned right back around

and drove home so we could relax

on the 4th of July -

we didn't want to be on the road

on a drinking holiday.

Before we left the kids again,

we had lunch at a local brewery

(Do you see a theme regarding food here?).

It was pretty much delicious,

and we enjoyed every morsel

because we were exhausted from

the heat and doing physical work.

I didn't take any pictures of the 4th

because we didn't really do anything

except relax and BBQ.

So there was nothing really exciting to blog.

Did the rest of our vacation improve?

Guess you'll have to wait and see!

I know, I'm a brat.