Vacation was great, but now I’m back to the daily grind: I’ve finished going through over 4,400 emails and 18 phone messages, and thereby discovered that I missed absolutely nothing during the two-week absence…
I’m already looking forward to our next vacation in September: Hawaii. It’ll be my first visit to the islands. I’m treating it [...]
The last half-week of the vacation was filled with hanging out by the pool, multiple visits to the nearby Blue Ridge Pottery studios, and shopping at the local merchants and the Dayton Farmers’ Market. The final full day consisted of a trip back to the DC area to visit Arlington National Cemetery and the FDR [...]
One of the best days so far! We visited the Virginia Safari Park, the kind you drive through at 5 mph with your car windows open, feeding the animals from small white buckets that contained expensive food. Picture-taking at the beginning was tough as the more aggressive animals were waiting for the helpless humans. We [...]
Basically a repeat of Days Six and Seven, except by now I was finishing up the Zerg missions.
By early evening, we were all bored out of our skulls, thanks to Miss Pukey, the overcast weather, and a lack of activities. I even called up the concierge and said, “We’re bored.” The only thing she [...]
Cortney puked just before beginning a tour of Montpelier, cutting short the remainder of the afternoon’s plans to visit Monticello and Mitchie Tavern. Madison’s home was undergoing a $30-million renovation, reducing the 66,000-square-foot mansion of the Duponts back down to Dolley and James’ original 16,000 square feet, so the best we saw was unplastered lathe [...]
Sleeping late, lounging around, finishing up the StarCraft Terran missions, watching TV, hanging out by the pool, shopping at Barnes and Noble — all in a vacation day’s work. Rented and watched the Cat in the Hat to finish the evening.
Sounds boring, perhaps.
Vacations, to me, are all about charging the batteries back up again, relieving [...]
Did nothing but Smithsonian museums today — American History, Natural History, and Air and Space. Personally, I was less impressed than I thought I’d be. With more than 150 million artifacts in hand, the exhibits seemed less detailed and spacious than imagined, tailored to the tourists rather than concentrating on breadth and depth. Most of [...]
After a hellish ride that should have only taken two hours, filled with multiple potty breaks, endless are-we-there-yets, and a trip once again to Mc-God-I’m-Sick-Of-This-Place-Donalds, we arrived in Washington DC three hours after the journey began.
The afternoon consisted of a driveby of the Pentagon and visits to the White House, the Washington Monument, the Vietnam [...]
I find lounging out in the sun in and by the pool slightly less fun and interesting than Kim does those timeshare presentations, both of which filled our day today. Ranks right up there with putting toothpaste back in the tube, getting a mammogram, and DIY surgery. All in the name of fun for the [...]
The morning was spent at Luray Zoo, a tiny zoo stocked with both handbred and rescued animals that was been featured on multiple wildlife shows, even visited by Steve Irwin the Crocodile Hunter when he needed to borrow some snakes for one of his locally produced shows.
The curators, husband and wife Mark and Jennifer, have [...]
