Sheep Guarding Llama

We spent the day relaxing and recovering from partying last night. Neither Min nor I left the house today to do anything more than to shop for some ice cream. We watched a lot of television, lots of cartoons. We also watched The Russia House and Dreamcatcher.

Tomorrow we are driving back to New York. Min is back at work at the Fairview tomorrow evening.

For those interested in the Friday Night Game, there is going to be a big one this Friday night. Andy, Tony, Jeremy and I are already on the dockit and Min has to work so we will be going all night.

Min and I slept in very late today. We were very exhausted after fighting so hard to find a hotel last night. Luckily the room worked out well and we got a good night’s sleep.

We went to breakfast back at the Buck Horn before driving back to Greely, PA for the reunion. After breakfast we ran over to Walmart because I had forgotten to pack shirts to wear so we needed to pick some up.

We only took about fourty minutes returning to the camp for the reunion. It was a nice day, cool and overcast. We didn’t get back to the reunion until after lunch. Unfortunately, the reunion was winding down a bit this afternoon so we really got very little time to hang around. We had a good time for the short time that we were there. I volunteered/was elected to create the family reunion web site.

After the reunion, we hit the road south. We decided to take back roads through the Poconos instead of heading back to the main highway. That was definitely the wrong decision. We ended up spending hours sitting in stopped traffic around all of the resorts. They really have a poor infrastructure in that area. It took us as long to get to DC as it would have if we had left directly from Ithaca.

We finally arrived in Annapolis around 9:30. Cookie and Tommy were over and the drinking had already begun. John’s birthday is coming up on Tuesday so we were celebrating tonight.

This morning Min and I slept in a little and then drove down to Nate’s for the Party at the Whatever. We managed to get down to Ithaca around 1:00 pm or so. The party was good but small this year. We stayed there until everyone went off to go swimming and then we hopped in the Camaro and headed out to go to the reunion in Greeley, Pennsylvania in the Poconos.

We didn’t get down to the reunion until very late, well after dark, which made finding the place a challenge. It was at a small boy’s summer camp. We stopped in for about an hour before heading out to find a hotel. That was quite an adventure in and of itself. We spent three hours driving to each and every exit in the area and going to all of the hotels looking for a place that had rooms. Everyone was sold out and there were very few hotels as it was. We went to Milford, PA, Port Jervis, NJ and then on to downstate NY. Nothing in Middletown or Goshen. We finally managed to get a room at the Super 8 in Montgomery, just minutes away from where John grew up in Marlboro. We didn’t get into the hotel until around 1:30. We got the next to last room and they had sold out by the time we were finished checking in. It took us so long to find a room that we should have just driven back to Ithaca and saved the money. After checking in, we went to the Buck Horn just down the street for some supper since we hadn’t had the opportunity to eat yet.

Dinner was good. The assistant manager there happened to be the only one working because none of his waitresses showed up. But we were the only ones there by the time we were finishing so we ended up talking to him and found out that he was originally from Herkimer. Small world. After dinner it was off to bed to get some sleep. It wasn’t all that late but boy were we tired.

There was a change of plans. I started feeling sick today so decided not to travel. I was light headed and felt like I might have a light fever. I have been on Cimetidine for my acid reflux and those are the side effects so I stopped taking the medicine. Min and I decided to change our schedule for this weekend and instead of me going to DC and then rushing back, we are going to go to the family reunion on Saturday night after going to the Party and the Whatever on Saturday morning. Then we will be going to Annapolis together for Labor Day. That worked into our schedules far better especially since I am not planning on spending any time working while I am down there. Eric and I have a tripped planned in the next few weeks to go down and spend some serious time training.

Just a quick update today. I am traveling to Ithaca today and then on to Washington tomorrow after working in Ithaca for a little while. I am leaving around 3:00 this afternoon to head down so I will be in Ithaca around 5:00. I will be hard to reach since I have to Internet access there or cell service while I am at the apartment. If anyone needs me, email me I guess and I will get with you tomorrow. I will check my mail periodically at the Lifestyles and Autoworks offices.

I got up this morning and wasn’t exhausted as expected. I had breakfast with dad at the Omega Grill and then spent the rest of the day packing trying to get on the road by a decent time. There is just SO much to get done before leaving for any length of time, it is really frustrating. Luckily, I am only going to be gone for four nights at most so I will be back home on Friday. That makes it a little bit better, but not much. There is still lots of things that need to be done.

Okay, no time to write today but I will try to write tomorrow and catch everyone up a little bit on the vacation news and all the latest.