Psychotomy

Left for vacation last friday. Left the house at 10:30, arrived in NC at 11:30. AM and PM respectively …

To be fair, however, we left at 10:30, went to gymboree, picked up a few things at target, did lunch, hit the grocery for my happy pills so they wouldn’t run out thursday evening. Got “on the road” around 1:30. Stopped at kiir’s grandmother ~4:30? her aunt was there visiting on HER way to vacation too! then another aunt stopped by with her two kids, 5 and 8?, and we ended up just staying for dinner rather than leaving and then stopping in 20 miles :o Boy likes to eat at 6. 6:30 at the outside, if you give him a snack to keep the starvation at bay. Left there around 7:30 again, so I was really only driving 7 hours. But since I got up at 8:30, it was a long damned day :o

Kiir’s parents arrived saturday, we hit the pool. Went to New Bern, the Birthplace of Pepsi Cola!, but the town was basically closed when we went on Sunday. Monday was more pool and playing at the timeshare b/c mom had to work most of the day. Tuesday we (kiir, dk, me, and dad) went to the beach (mom had to work all day (this is a repeating theme)). DK LOOOVED the sand and the surf and the ocean and everything. Unless you took away his plastic shovel. Then the universe sucked and was trying to eat his favourite toy and and and ooh shovel! yay. :) (I had to run into the water a few times when he dropped it whilst playing in the tide, oi)

Tuesday night mom and dad watched DK so Kiir and I could go out for dinner , just the two of us. I was afraid all the good restaurants were an hour away at the beach area, but Kiir had found a few in New Bern that sounded decent. We actually went to a japanese steakhouse, was pretty good.Wednesday we did the pool again, mom played with DK for a bit between calls. Thursday they left and we went to the pool and started packing things up

Friday, checkout was at 10AM. I had called and gotten permission to leave at noon instead, since we didn’t really think the 15mo old was going to be conducive to packign quickly, nor amenable to getting up early enough to be out and on the road at 10 :o Kiir took him to the pool around 10ish, and I spent until 11:30-11:45 packing the car. They finally came back to see why I hadn’t come over to pick them up after finishing. On the road around noon, yay. Stopped in like 20 minutes for lunch at IHOP, picked up blueberries for the boy wonder, and off we went!

Stopped at Kiir’s grandmothers again and had dinner with them. Dinner was nice, but the important part of this stop was giving desmond some time OUT of his carseat to run around. Because he woke up when I stopped for gas an hour outside of Richmond. And he was PISSED. Because he was DONE with his car seat :o

Got home last night ~10ish, yay.

Posted in: general, trips by attriel /