I am not even sure where I left off but I can tell you this, this last week has been non-stop. I think I am going to start with Friday. Last weekend was rough. We took the opportunity to relax at home Friday night, watch a movie, and maybe start some cleaning of the house. Overall it wasn’t too bad. We watched Herbie Fully Loaded. I really am an Old school Herbie fan and believe it or not, I liked this movie! It was very cute and had all of the typical Herbie elements in it. They took the opportunity to give Herbie a little more emotion through CGI and it worked out well. If you want a fun little family movie that will take you back to being a little kid watching your favorite bug come to life, check this one out.
Friday night took a turn for the worse when Amy started getting sick. Sure enough, it looks like she managed to pick up the stomach flu along the way. Due to this, we took Saturday nice and easy. We cleaned up the house and did almost all of the laundry. (You know, I don’t think we have ever finished all of the laundry.) Around 4ish we shipped Andrew off to stay with Heather and then finished up packing for the trip. We had to be very careful to hide the bags we were packing. You see, Charlie (my cat) doesn’t like it when we leave. He tends to freak out. So this time we closed all the doors and packed in secrecy. I think it worked, he knew something was going on, but wasn’t sure what. I really want to say that we went to bed early to prepare for the morning wake up, but we all know that never happens. Sure enough, with a 4am alarm, I went to sleep at about 1am.
With all the bags packed and everything ready to go, it took no time to get out the door on Sunday morning. We got to Dulles early enough to give us plenty of time. We parked in economy and I gave the truck a good kiss and hug, assuring it that we would only be gone three days. Now it’s all hurry up and wait. There was a small line for the tickets, a small line at security, although, the security checkpoint at Dulles was one of the coolest. They had this archway you had to stand in that does like a borg scan of you with sniffers and lights and such. It was the coolest bit of tech I have seen in an airport since the x-ray machine. At the gate we were stuck for the nest 1 ½ hours, thankfully I brought the PSP and Amy had her game boy. (we are such geeks) The current play list for the PSP is Midnight Club, Lumines, Midway Arcade, and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I know I said I wouldn’t ever buy a GTA game, but in order to do any of the Homebrew stuff on PSP you need it. (And it’s not all that bad of a game, certainly not as bad as San Andres) Ahh they are calling our gate, next stop Los Angeles!
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We landed in LAX and now had 4 hours to kill. To be honest, most of this part is a blur because I was pretty tired. I remember walking through the airport and noticing the lack of anything good to eat. I was forced to choose from a McDonalds and a Wolfgang Puck (fast food version). Well, since the last time I ate Mickie D’s I got sick and swore it off for life, I guess we know where I was going. Thinking back now, I wonder if that was the right choice. I paid $7.50 for extremely runny eggs, greasy bacon, and some bread thing that I wasn’t sure what it was made out of. I really wanted to call up Wolfgang and bitch him out! Well we did find a way to kill off the hours, (even though Amy’s stomach was still doing loops) and the next stop was Las Vegas! Which will be continued in the next post.
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