It’s Monday night—nine days away from getting home. I wonder if home will be easier than vacation…life never seems to be too easy for us, but it does seem that we were really busy on this vacation, so it will be an interesting contrast to watch. It would be wonderful if everything was blissful, clean, and well oiled when we get home. It sounds like everyone has been doing their part, so it should be a nice homecoming. It’s nice knowing responsible, good friends are taking care of our home & WP life.
What’s interesting is that we know we are going home, but I think we will all miss our life on vacation—despite its ups and downs—or what some would describe as a roller coaster of emotions and happenings. Amazingly it’s still been a very nice time—not what we had originally intended but definitely not boring—and a lot of interesting—and a lot of learning about people, about ourselves, and even more about life. No wonder it was a busy vacation…
Today we tried to sleep late and it would have worked, had we not had the phone call for Yuliya at 7:30, another about an hour later, and then finally one for us after 10 from Audrey at home—she had no sympathy that we were still trying to sleep. Oh well—our present schedule allows us to try to sleep late again tomorrow morning—maybe we will have better luck. The other sleeping beauties are sawing logs already—can’t even wait until we have to turn off the generator!
Today we had to take the trailer and dump all the bad water and fill it up with good water. We also got propane for heat and gas for the generators, so we should be good on all those necessities until we get home. Sounds like it’s going to get cold next weekend and we should be totally prepared. They showed mountains where we just were at about a week ago and they were all snow covered—guess fall is here.
The rest of the day was spent looking for a printer for me. Remember ours shot craps a couple of weeks ago and since the error told us there was no hope in the old one, we hit Best Buy after checking some other competitors. I had checked CNET.com for reviews and ending up getting one of their editor’s top 5 choices for less than $50. I had wanted a portable, compact one, but they are about 5x’s more expensive, and printers have turned almost disposable if you can get anything over a year from them. I tend to be hard on printers since they often travel with us and I print business brochures on them. With this new one I need to get started on putting together a postcard for wholesale so I can drum up some business before the end of the year.
We ended the day with finding me a pair of shoes (my back has been bothering me since setup), hitting Border’s books, going to our favorite Mexican restaurant for their free happy hour taco bar and margaritas, and then ended up at the casino. Amazing how that sometimes works.
Stacy once again lost! But I saved the day by winning $8. Figure my luck has changed and I’m just slowly working up to the big win. Probably will be much, much bigger than anything Stacy has won. It will no doubt make all my past losses seem unimportant. At least that is what the $8 meant to me…
But my trailer mates are definitely not night people and even though I’m the oldest of the group—I’m again outlasting them into the night. But remember—I’m always the last one to take a shower in the morning…
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