Day One

We had breakfast at the hotel (it's free as part of the cost of the room), then we took a short walk up the street, and bought a couple of hats, since I couldn't find my cap before we left.  Then we drove to Mount Rushmore - which is quite a ways up winding mountain roads from Deadwood.  We spent a while there, taking pictures, and we had lunch.  Afterwards we drove to Bear Country, and drove through an enclave of different animals, including elk, deer, mountain goats, and lots of bears.  The drive through took a little bit of time, because the speed limit was 10 mph, and we were in a long train of cars stopping for photos every time there was an animal :)

We drove back to Rapid City, and stopped to pick up a few more pieces of clothing (like another pair of jeans for me). We came back to Deadwood, walked across the street to a steakhouse and had dinner.  We gambled a little after dinner (the whole town is full of casinos), and I actually came away with more money than I started for a change. 

Then we made it back to the room and called it a night.

Vacation

So ready for it.  When I got home, I changed my eBay password, but I had to call them to do it because the system was a little overloaded.

I paid up on a few bills so I don't have to stress about that while we're gone. I got gas at lunch time. We did one final load of laundry, and I packed my suitcase with everything I could.  Charged up the camcorder.  We'll probably use our phones for photos instead of the camera - one less piece to lug around.

I know everything will be waiting for me, probably piled up, when I get back, but for the next 6 days, I'm not going to worry about it.

Weekend

Saturday we slept in, till almost noon.  That was because I had stayed up Friday night and watched Iron Man on BluRay.  When we got around to moving we went to the comic book convention at the fairgrounds where I found a few rare comics, and she bought a new one about vampires.  Today I went to work in the morning for about 6 hours.  I had some things that had to be done before end of day tomorrow and I'm in meetings all day. again.  After I got home, we went to MOA, which we haven't done in quite a while.  We went to Barnes and Noble, Best Buy, and Lane Bryant.  We had a late lunch at Long John Silver's, then came home.  I watched some episodes of Iron Chef America that TiVo recorded for me, and she napped on the couch until bed time.  I played some DDO and some LOTRO.  I did put our mail on hold for this weekend's vacation - it's hard to imagine it's already here. 

It just better not be foggy when we get to Mount Rushmore again!

Wednesday

Saw the sun for a little bit today - still was inside most of the day.  We had takeout chinese for dinner, because we were both tired.  We watched a couple shows, but called it an early night.  I played Eve for a little, watched an episode of chopped, and that was it.  Tomorrow is full of meetings again.  I barely have any time to do any actual work, although I guess these meetings are part of the 'work' that I do.  It just gets old after a while.

Another Long Day

I'm not really built for these 10 hour days anymore.  Feels like I get home, have a little dinner and it's time for bed.  At least next week we're taking a real vacation, even if it's only 5 days.  That'll give me a chance to rest up.

I hope.

Monday

and a rainy day.  Not exactly the best start to the week.  Work was everything I thought it would be. Tomorrow isn't going to be much better.

Did catch up on one show tonight, only a bunch more to go.

We were talking about the movies tomorrow, but if I'm still tired and blah, we may not.  We'll see.

Home

Spent the day being just lazy.  Caught up on my shows that recorded while we were out, although there's still some on the main dvr to watch.  Otherwise I just played on the computer and tried to sort pictures.  It's really slow, probably because one folder had over 100,000 pictures in it.  I can't complain too much. I did it to myself by changing a setting I shouldn't have.

Tomorrow I get to pick up our mail, go back to work, and fill out a form to report for Jury duty.  Work is not something I'm looking forward to.  I took a peek at the emails that came in while I was gone.  I have been double and triple booked for quite a few times.  It's going to take some effort to sort it all out.