Sheep Guarding Llama

Min and I drove out to my parent’s for church and lunch and then I went out to Caledonia for band practice. I will be marching in Toronto next weekend for the Santa Claus parade.

I didn’t manage to get out of bed until after 7:30 this morning. That is more than 14 hours of sleep for those of you who are keeping track. Boy was I tired.

Miranda has never really had a chance to go out on the wine trails around the Finger Lakes so she, Loopy, Dominica and I headed out the west side of Cayuga and hit a couple of wineries up that way. We started with Americana (Dominica’s favorite) and then hit Sheldrake Point, Lakeshore, Cayuga Ridge and a new place, The Thirsty Owl. The Owl is really new having just opened on September 13th of this year. We noticed it as we drove by so we had to stop. It was a really nice place. They are just getting going and they only have six wines so far but they expect to have more in the spring so we will have to stop by again. Lakeshore was our last stop of the day and they were just bringing out their Neavou [sp] wines (the first wine of the season) and we got to have some of that and we were also their last tasters of the day so we got to spend some time hanging out with all of the people who worked there. All in all, we had a really good time.

Eric and I managed to drive back from Washington early this morning. I got out of bed at 5am and got ready to go. I didn’t get Eric up until it was just about time to head out the door. He has been even more tired than I have been.

We got on the road early and made really good time getting back to New York. We managed to get out early enough that the Baltimore rush hour was really behind us. We arrived in Ithaca at noon and I got stuck working on the phone until almost 1pm. As soon as I was off of the phone I headed out to go over to Nolan’s house for a Lifestyle Properties party. I wasn’t able to stay there very long, though, because I was still so tired that I could barely stand up. I headed back over to the house where Eric and I continued to work on a couple of computers for about another hour or so before we decided that we were just too tired to be able to get anything done.

I laid down to go to sleep at 5:30 and that was it for me. The day was over.

Our last full day in DC. This is the only day that Eric and I actually worked during regular day hours. We worked all day at the hospital and into the late evening hours before heading out. We need to get some sleep before driving tomorrow.

After a very busy day yesterday, Eric and I were incredibly tired today. We slept in a little bit later than usual and started off the day having breakfast with John. There still is no furniture at the house so I am sleeping on Dominica’s comforter that she left there the last time that she was down to visit and Eric is sleeping on her futon matress that she left the last time that she was down. There are two chairs in the house, strangely enough, one of them is Dominica’s too! John does finally have one folding chair of his own and a television stand with a HDTV and digital satellite. He is still using my little Aiwa stereo though. 🙂

Eric and I got into the office in the early afternoon and worked all evening until very late. It is much easier to get work done when there isn’t very many people around.