We arrived home last night around 11, and have spent a little while getting back into our routine. The cats have been pretty clingy, but no pee! I think I like our new cat-watcher-people-service-thing. The cats seem to like them as well.
The trip was a good one, it was really hot and humid down there, but it was also gorgeous. It was tough to make ourselves get back on a plane and head back here, although the weather is pretty nice here. There is just nothing like the water and weather down there in the Keys. If it wasn't so expensive I would be working pretty hard to find a way to move there. It was nice to be near/in the ocean again too. I only got mildly sunburnt, and that was after putting on sunscreen.
Once we get some of the photos ready, we'll put them up here so everyone can see how nice it is down there.
Today is the day we head out to the Florida Keys for the weekend Halloween festivities. It should be a crazy good time, I'll write all about it when we get back.
Have a good weekend!
Have a good weekend!
Seriously, it has been raining for effectively 3 weeks now. They say that if this keeps up, we are in for a super-snowy winter. I guess that would be cool by me, since we bought snowboards at the end of last season and have yet to really try them out. But jeez, I am sick and tired of carrying my umbrella all the time. We didn't accidentally move to England or anything, did we?
On another note, this past weekend was the first official 'Man Day', and the rain did decide to hold off for a few hours so that we could get some serious fun in. We started with some Rugby World Cup action, watching England defeat France in the semi-finals. Sunday of this weekend England meets up with South Africa for the title. After Rugby, we headed out to Elko Speedway for the 'Eve of Destruction' event. Let me tell you, this was crazy, it was nuts, Travis would have loved it. They started the evening with the 'Super Bee' class, which is all four cylinder cars like preludes, sentras, and a lot of saturns. They then moved into the big V-8s, but here the catch was that there were two people in the car, one guy steering, and one guy working the throttle and brake. This was insane, cars crashing all over the place.
After the first intermission, they started the 'spectator drags' where anyone could take their car out there and race against everyone else. It was a single elimination event that came down to a Dodge Ram Diesel 4x4 and a Firebird Ram-Air. The Ram dogged him off the line, but the Firebird had much more HP and passed the Ram on the straight. This period was one of the highlights of the evening, don't know why.
So, now comes the REALLY fun part. Now they start the figure-8 races. Yes, you heard that correctly, figure-8 races. IT. WAS. AWESOME. That is all I can say about it. They had those big V8's out there again, this time running in the figure-8, and then they had the school bus races (in the figure-8), then to top it all off, they brought out the trailer races. This was just plain old destruction for the sake of destruction. It was Man-Awesome! The finale of the evening was something to top it all off, they had brought in a jet-powered firetruck. This jet powered firetruck backed that ass up to a school bus and fired up the afterburner. The noise was deafening, but it was awesome. Molten steel was flying off the bus, the back door was blown open and set aflame, everything on the bus was burning, including the steel frame and structure. Did I say it was awesome? Well, it was.
Other than that, not much has been going on up here in the Land o' Lakes. I have been badgering E for weeks to sell the Acura and get an M5, but maybe this is not the time to sell a front wheel drive car for a rear wheel drive car. Especially with a whole lot o' snow coming. We bought a rug for the living room the other day, it should be here in a couple of weeks. When it shows up I will post photos of it in its natural environment. Until then, look here and you will see what we bought. We are also getting ready to paint the bathroom, so I will have photos of that up soon as well.
On another note, this past weekend was the first official 'Man Day', and the rain did decide to hold off for a few hours so that we could get some serious fun in. We started with some Rugby World Cup action, watching England defeat France in the semi-finals. Sunday of this weekend England meets up with South Africa for the title. After Rugby, we headed out to Elko Speedway for the 'Eve of Destruction' event. Let me tell you, this was crazy, it was nuts, Travis would have loved it. They started the evening with the 'Super Bee' class, which is all four cylinder cars like preludes, sentras, and a lot of saturns. They then moved into the big V-8s, but here the catch was that there were two people in the car, one guy steering, and one guy working the throttle and brake. This was insane, cars crashing all over the place.
After the first intermission, they started the 'spectator drags' where anyone could take their car out there and race against everyone else. It was a single elimination event that came down to a Dodge Ram Diesel 4x4 and a Firebird Ram-Air. The Ram dogged him off the line, but the Firebird had much more HP and passed the Ram on the straight. This period was one of the highlights of the evening, don't know why.
So, now comes the REALLY fun part. Now they start the figure-8 races. Yes, you heard that correctly, figure-8 races. IT. WAS. AWESOME. That is all I can say about it. They had those big V8's out there again, this time running in the figure-8, and then they had the school bus races (in the figure-8), then to top it all off, they brought out the trailer races. This was just plain old destruction for the sake of destruction. It was Man-Awesome! The finale of the evening was something to top it all off, they had brought in a jet-powered firetruck. This jet powered firetruck backed that ass up to a school bus and fired up the afterburner. The noise was deafening, but it was awesome. Molten steel was flying off the bus, the back door was blown open and set aflame, everything on the bus was burning, including the steel frame and structure. Did I say it was awesome? Well, it was.
Other than that, not much has been going on up here in the Land o' Lakes. I have been badgering E for weeks to sell the Acura and get an M5, but maybe this is not the time to sell a front wheel drive car for a rear wheel drive car. Especially with a whole lot o' snow coming. We bought a rug for the living room the other day, it should be here in a couple of weeks. When it shows up I will post photos of it in its natural environment. Until then, look here and you will see what we bought. We are also getting ready to paint the bathroom, so I will have photos of that up soon as well.