August 4, 2003

It’s another Monday. Min was supposed to start working at Youngs and Linfoot in Geneseo today but they weren’t ready for her so we are pushing that off until tomorrow. Andy is liking his new job out in Buffalo at BOC Edwards. But the commute is a killer.

Today was mostly more work around the house and trying to account for all of the DVDs that got shipped over to here. I am in the process of verifying the existence of all of the movies and adding Dominica’s movies into the collection. We have decided that it is time for us to combine the collection and sell off all of the doubles. Luckily there really aren’t all that many doubles. Just about eight or so. The total collection now is up around 670 movies.

While Min and I were out of town, Andy said that he heard more mice in the walls around the stairs going to the cellar. So yesterday, he and Min went to Walmart and picked up a Mouse Cube humane trap. We set it out on the stairs and we caught two more mice last night.

August 2, 2003

Today is all day driving day. After the blow out last night, Min and I tried very hard all day to get a wheel for the car (the tire blew AND the rim cracked) but we weren’t able to find anything. So we finally gave up and decided to just drive back to New York on the donut. Luckily, Ralph’s Country Store switched the tires around for us so that the donut is on the back so that we can drive a lot more easily. So we started the very long trek from North Carolina to New York. It ended up taking 15 hours of driving. Ugh.

August 1, 2003

Min and I are in Savannah for our final day. We got up fairly early and drove out to Tybee Island to spend the last day with her family there. We hung out for most of the day at the house and then the whole crew drove out to Savannah to go to a family restaurant for dinner. After dinner, Min and I hit the road for DC. I am supposed to do some work there tomorrow.

Min and I drove through the night and made it to North Carolina. At 3:30 am, on US i95, the front right tire exploded on Min’s car and we were stranded on the side of the highway. We called Mazda roadside assisstance and they sent out JR from Ralph’s Country Store. He towed us back to Ralph’s and hooked us up with a hotel. They really took care of us and went out of their way to make sure that we were okay. We will have to look for a tire in the morning because they didn’t have any of the right size for Min’s wheels.

July 31, 2003

Today was Min and my first full day in Savannah together. We got up a little bit late this morning and headed out for the Waffle House for some breakfast. After getting some food in our tummies, we went to the Savanna visitor’s center and booked a trolley tour of the city. We started the tour around noon and it took an hour and a half to travel around the historic district seeing all of the major site. Savannah is a really neat town with a ton of really interesting history. Savannah was occupied by the British in the Revolutionary War (or the “War of Southern Aggression to our Canadian readers) and again by the Union in the Civil War (or the “War of Northern Aggression” to our southern readers.) It had a number of major fires and epidemics over the years. We had a good time on the tour and learned quite a bit. We got off the tour at the end and walked around the city for a little while and did some window shopping. Then we walked down to the Owen-Thomas house, the oldest example of British Regency architecture in the New World as well as America’s first home with indoor plumbing. The plumbing system was fed by water collected on the roof and stored in four large cisterns. The house was built in 1816. The house was interesting but there wasn’t much to do on the house tour and since that was touted as being the best house tour in the whole city, we decided to limited our house tours to this one. It is a beautiful house, though.

After the tour, we ran back along the trolley tour route and caught the trolley again. It took us close to the city market so we hopped off the trolley and walked down to the market to see about some lunch. We ate lunch at “Tapas” in the market. It was really good and not nearly as expensive as Ithaca. It was very reminiscent of “Just a Taste” in Ithaca.

We hit the hotel and the mall for about two hours after dinner and then drove out to the island to see the family for the evening. Michael is really into Anime and got Joe’s girlfriend Brittany yesterday watching Princess Mononoke and Serial Experiments: Lain. So Min and I picked up Ah! My Goddess: The Movie while we were at the mall so that we would have something new to watch. We watched Kiki’s Delivery Service but near the end the movie stopped playing (I am hoping that it is the player and not the DVD itself) so we didn’t get to finish it. So we started watched Ah! My Goddess instead.