The grass...it chokes the soul.

It's been raining here all week. My poor backyard looks like a jungle. It needed to be mowed on Saturday, but we were all to busy. So I thought, hey I'll do it Monday, or Tuesday. A noble thought, to be sure. But it's been raining ever since Monday afternoon. I love the rain, I'm not complaining one bit, but it does make mowing the lawn hard.

I had big plans for this week. A week off, with nothing to do. I could catch up with laundry and dishes, I could make banana bread. I could do a lot of things. But gosh darn it. I get online first thing in the morning, and I start talking to Arly, and next thing I know it's 1 in the afternoon. Although, truth be told, I have done some laundry and my dishes, but I can't seem to find the energy to do that banana bread. Maybe tomorrow afternoon. I have meetings in the morning, that should get me started. At least I won't get caught on MSN all day. It's not that I don't like talking to you Arly, but gosh darn it, I've been a lazy bum this week.

Oh bugger, the world is calling again.

Well it's back to the old grindstone again. The three day weekend is over, and I can't avoid the work I've been meaning to do for a week anymore. The lawn needs mowed, the house needs cleaned, the theatre stuff needs to be done, and the dentist office can once again call me if they're in need of the "fill in girl". Sad, sad day. I love being able to hide from the world. I love going somewhere and having no one know where I am. Needless to say, I'm very bitter toward my cell phone.

I can't hardly avoid the work that is calling me anymore. I suppose I could fake sick and watch movies all day, but in the end that would just make me feel worse. I do have to say I'm extremely tired after this last weekend of feeding 40 people. Maybe that will do for an excuse to take it easy today. I have started the laundry, so at least I'm doing something. I might do that. It sounds reasonable.

The locusts are coming!!

Ok guys. We're home now, and I'll be back to posting normal blogs. :) No more pictures of Rob with Spiderman, sad to say. Just to let you know, I've been catching my body back up to Pacific Time, so I've been keeping odd hours. I hate jet lag. Although waking up at 6 is kind of handy. You get a lot done. Not that it's worth doing it all the time, mind you, but as it is...I might as well take advantage of it while I'm doing it.

The Southwest kids are coming this weekend. Gearing up for some good Baker City cooking with my mom. I started helping her cook for 40 kids when I was a teenager because I didn't want to help do "work projects" outside. I hate to sweat in the sun. So as a convienent excuse I helped in the kitchen. Now I actually enjoy it. :) Although feeding 40 people with the average age of 16 always reminds me of the plague of locusts in Egypt. To quote a sage piece of writing "They come, they eat, they leave."

Universal Studios

Oddly enough we didn't take any pictures today. Maybe it was from tiredness, or maybe it was because the camera was tucked away in Rob's new Spiderman track bag (joy of joys), or maybe it was because this park was so lackluster compared to everything else that it just wasn't worth taking the camera out. Or maybe it was because I had a headache.

We had fun at this park, but really in all honesty, compared to the others, this one was kind of outshone. We rode the Simpson's ride (that actually was fun), and we rode Jaws (which Rob was terrified of since he's been scared of Jaws since he was 8 years old.) There were a lot more shows at this park, most of which we missed...on purpose.

We were going to try to go back to the Magic Kingdom tonight to see the fireworks show, but the more we talked about it, the more we just wanted to go back and relax tonight. I would have gone gladly, but we didn't have enough time to do what I wanted to do (ride Pirates of the Caribbean) and still see the fireworks. Plus it takes about 45 minutes to get INTO the park from the parking lot so we would have had time to get there, see the fireworks from the gate, and leave. Not worth it.

Tomorrow it's the flight home. I'm looking forward to getting back to non-humidity (it's wrecking my skin), but I'm not quite ready to leave yet. It's been a fun week.

Universal Studios: Island of Adventure

Our first day at Universal Studios. In Florida it's split into two parks. The first one is regular Universal Studios. The second is Universal Studios:Island of Adventure. We went to this one first, because it had "Marvel Land". *ahem* Are you ready to see a big dork!!?? Yes you are.

Rob, with Captain America, and Wolverine.

Rob, with Spiderman. Doing a Spiderman pose. He wasn't the first, NOR the last grown man to have his picture taken with these superheros. I have a lot more of Rob and various superheros, but to much dorkiness might bring down the intelligence level of this blog so I posted these two.

We did this park in a half day. It was nice to be able to ride all the rides, and see what we wanted to see, and still be back at the apartment by 4. Universal Studios is like Disney, only with less effort put into everything. It was like they were trying to make the most money with the least amount of effort. (Does this suprise anyone? I thought not) We rode Jurassic Park, and skipped the Dudley Do-Right Rip Saw Falls, mainly because I didn't want to be soaked like the day before.

That evening we got tickets to Cirque Du Soleil's show called "La Nouba". If you ever have a chance to go to a Cirque Du Soleil show, GO. I know the tickets are expensive, but they're sooooooooo worth it. The show was amazing. It was fun for me to be an audience member for once, with nothing to do but be entertained.

I'm trying to catch up now.

I can't remember if I've posted this picture before or not. Days are starting to run together now. I like this picture. It makes me smile.

If you ever get the chance to go to Disney's Animal Kingdom, and you get the chance to ride Kali River Rapids, and if you DON'T want to end up like this, skip the ride. Although I have to say I was the wettest in our group. *sigh* It always happens to me.

Here we are at the entrance to Disney's Animal Kingdom. This park was nice. There was lots of shade.

Sorry guys, I'm trying to catch up now. I know Rob's been able to post, but everytime I get online to blog the internet stops working. It's been a pain, mainly because I can't remember everything now. :) The Animal Kingdom was Day...Four-ish. We went to Epcot on Day Three and I have pictures of that, and I didn't really want to post them.

Can you tell from the brevity of this blog that I'm tired. :)

Day Three

Day Three we spent at the Epcot Center. It was fun. I probably enjoyed this park more than the other two. It had more to look at, and more of "my kind" of stuff. They had a tea shop. :)

Anyway, to start out the day (Mother's Day) we went to church, and got out of that at 11:30-ish. Then we came back to the apartment, ate lunch, and headed to Disney. So technically we only spent an afternoon there. I rode the Planet Tomorrow ride inside the big ball, and then I rode the Mission:Space ride that made me sick to my stomach for the rest of the day. I seriously couldn't ride another ride without almost puking. Honey I Shrunk the Audience even made me sick after that. It was so pathetic. Anyway, this park closed at 9pm, so we were out of there and back to the apartment early. Nice. Tomorrow, Animal Kingdom. :)

See Wendy, I can put pineapple plants on my blog too. Woo hoo. :) These are pineapple plants at Epcot. They were cool.

Joy of Tea. Yes. Tea is joyful. I had a cup in my hand when we took this picture. It was awesome.

Day Two

Cinderella's castle is behind us. Suzanne took the picture and didn't get the whole castle. I think we're going to retake this picture if we get a chance.
For you Arly. I laughed really hard. I also got a picture of the Dumbo ride too, but we didn't ride it. I couldn't ride it without you. :)
This is Rob and I right before we got on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride! I love that ride, a lot.

Day Two was spent in the Magic Kingdom (i.e Disneyland for you west coasters). I have to say that we shouldn't have done the Magic Kingdom on a Saturday. It was so packed. It was nothing like the day before when kids were still in school. We should have done it Monday, when all the whiners and criers were back in school and we could have some peace.

We dodged and evaded people all day long. I'm also sore. This does NOT mean that I didn't have fun. I really did. But I'm so tired right now I barely know what I'm writing. Blah. I'm feeling muscles I didn't know I had. So, because I can't brain today, I have the dumb I'm filling a lot of this blog in with pictures. :)

Day One

This picture is of Rob and I right after we got done with Aerosmith's Rockin' Rollercoaster ride. It was the first rollercoaster that had a loop and a spiral that I have ever ridden on. I was shaking when I got off of it.

Alrighty, day one. We didn't get to head to a Disney park until 2 or so because of some morning things that Robert and Suzanne had to do. So we decided to go to the Disney Hollywood MGM park. This park was mostly about movies and TV and stuff, and there were some pretty neat things, like the Indiana Jones Stunt Spectacular show. But it also had the Aerosmith Rollercoaster which was entirely in the dark, going from 0 to 60 in 2 seconds (no joke), and it also had the Tower of Terror, which is a ride that lifts you up 13 stories and drops you. I rode both. I had so much adrenaline running through me that I could barely walk after we were done. We rode the Aerosmith ride twice. *sigh* Rob owes me...huge.

The final even of the evening was the Fantasmic show at 9pm. It was a really neat water/firework show. I REALLY enjoyed it. We had to get there at 7:30, but we had great seats.

Ok, that was the first day. More to come soon!

The first day in the land of Disney

Ok, just to let you all know I will be blogging regularly while we're on our trip to Orlando Florida. I would tell you about our day so far, but we haven't done anything yet. So it might be this evening or tomorrow morning. :) Just check back regularly and fits of jealously will overtake you. :)

My dad asplode (heh heh)

Ok actually, he really did asplode. Dad had an episode with his defibrillator. 39+ of them actually. Basically what happened was this: The atrium (the part of the heart to the north) was fluttering. (Mom must have been passing by), the Ventricle (the part of the heart to the south, darn rebel) was not fluttering. The defibrillator thought dad was having a heart attack, and shocked him. 39 times. Actually it was more than 39 because he lost count around 30, repeating it a couple times. Just so you all know he's fine, tired, but fine. His heart was irritable after the episodes (so said the doctor. I told him it matched his personality), and his blood was saying he HAD had a heart attack, but no, no heart attack. A fix in his meds and he's right and tight. All is well, dad no longer asplode.

In other, more important, news. Rob and I are heading to sunny Florida for a week to head to Disneyworld with the in-laws (my in-laws, not his). Robert got back from Afghanistan and we're meeting there to enjoy some "welcome home Robert"moments before he goes home to work/everyone else. It'll be fun. Hopefully I'll be able to blog and post pictures everyday. I'm going to try, but being the technology idiot I am, I might not be able to. We'll see.

Alrighty, need to pack. Need to clean my house.