No other excuse than that. Should have posted before now.
Tubing: Here is Kevin's video. He gets some serious air at times....
Vacation Wrap-Up: Let me see....finished up in Florida with a trip to Navarre Beach on Wednesday where the boys did their best to collect every seashell and sand dollar in sight. The beach flags were yellow and purple, which means caution, moderate surf, and caution, wildlife present. Sure did see the wildlife, all kinds of little small (less than a half an inch) swam around us. About 10 feet past us in the bigger waves were schools of bigger fish who were just going to town on the little fish (you could see them snapping out of the water having dinner). And every once in a while, you could see a really big fish coming in for the schools of bigger fish who were eating the little fish. And, oh yeah, the jellyfish. Very small, brownish, and, if you run into one, you're going to be stung. We saw two....collected one in a bucket so that the boys could get a really good look at it.
Thursday was a slow day....perhaps most notable for Christopher's long and loud complaints about Matthew's application of a "Wet Willy". This, looking back, was the first sign of Christopher's slowly burgeoning ear infection. Long nights Thursday and Friday night as he woke up screaming.....finally got him to the doctor Sunday morning for the Amoxycillin and ear drops. The next post (tomorrow) will be about the struggles to get Christopher to take the medicine.
Drive: Left Saturday Morning, 5 am, for the trip home. Made the decision for the first time to go straight through, 16 hours of driving. Last summer coming home we were in Indianapolis at 5 pm and stopped, and in hind sight, that was dumb, we were only 4 hours from home at that point and arriving in Okemos at 9 pm would still be in daylight. So, today, figured we'd go for it.
Drive went well, arrived Okemos at 10 pm. Stops were quick (but there were a lot of them, in Kentucky/Indiana Matthew was asking for bathroom stops every 45 minutes to an hour!). Suzanne spent a lot of the trip finishing up "Pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follett. Listened to XM Radio's replay of Casey Kasem's Top 40 countdown....on the seventies station it was the Top 50 of the Seventies. "Stayin' Alive" was #9 (a total rip-off job). Top 3 was Three Dog Night "Joy to the World", Roberta Flack "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face", and Simon & Garfunkel "Bridge over Troubled Water". Suzanne was very clear that she hoped she never ever heard Roberta Flack's classic ever again!
Cats: We're going to have to rethink how we're dealing with the cats when we're on vacation....got home and Daphne was out on the roof and Madison had again taken off for parts unknown (finally came back Sunday about noonish). We're not sure how they got out.....Ashton and his Mom swear up and down that they don't know how it happened. The roof really confuses us....all of the windows upstairs were secure, so, we don't know. Probably need to confine the cats to the basement during the next vacation.....
