OK, apparently this random cell phone picture taking and flickr account is lots of fun when you actually have time to do frivolous things as such so keep checking it. I’m still working on getting it on my sidebar so keep checking that too.
today’s plans
The girls woke up kinda early today but stayed in bed with me and then woke up together and played by themselves. Which was great for me because I didn’t actually get out of bed until after 9. Yay me. My grandmother is here and is going to spend the day with us. I’m sure we’ll be headed to our favorite Italian sub restaurant within the next hour or two. Besides that, I don’t think we have any official plans for the rest of the weekend. I’m sure it will involve shopping, movies, eating and more shopping.
fireworks
We ended up staying in Hagerstown last night for the fireworks. We drove to a local ball field at about 8:30 and waited until 9:30 for them to start. Both the girls were really tired but insisted on staying awake to wait for them. I don’t think either has seen a proper fireworks display yet. They sat in our laps while my two young cousins ran around like crazy little boys the whole time. Emma at one point asked the youngest one “Why were you running back and forth so much?” There was a really good band that played while we waited and I think everyone from around 30 miles around Hagerstown had come out. People had set out tents to sell funnel cakes and glow in the dark bracelets, etc.
I think Lexi must have smoked something before watching the fireworks because she kept saying “Diego and Dora!” and “Holly Hobbie” every time certain fireworks went off. Not sure if she was hallucinating or there was something about the color or something that reminded her of the characters she had watched all day in the van. I’m not sure, we all kept looking at each other like What is she talking about?? Emma kept saying things like it’s “Huge! humongous! Enormous! It’s bee-you-ti-ful!” They both loved them and I was thankful because there’s nothing worse than trying to calm down a baby or toddler that’s scared of fireworks. So, it was a really fun time with the family.
souvenir for Mom
Mom got a little souvenir from the Viriginia state police for going 15 over on the way up. This is about 1 hour after she calls me and insists I go only 12 over instead of 15 so I won’t get a ticket.
i wanna go home!
Yesterday on the way up, about 30 minutes into the drive Lexi whined “I wanna go home.” She continued to do that 5-6 more times until she insisted “I wanna go home and play with my toy-ees!!” Poor thing, little did she know she still had 6 more hours of riding and 4 more days until she got home.
i’m here
We made it to my uncle’s in Hagerstown. Spent some time with extended family until they left. Then we went shopping at the Outlets. I didn’t get a thing. Even went into Ann Taylor and Nine West and left with nothing. I didn’t even spend a dime on the girls. We’re debating staying here and watching the fireworks before heading over to Cumberland. I think the kids are getting pretty worn out though so who knows.
Flickr
I know I’m behind the times but I finally got my pictures off my SLVR I got for Christmas and into my Flickr account. I haven’t figured out how to do the nifty sidebar thing yet but here’s the address to my flickr account.
short post
This is going to be a short post I believe. Basically yesterday and today consisted of work. I had the implementation last night that had issues and I was on a conference call for an extra 2 hours. Today I went into the office. This evening was spent out and about with my family having dinner and shopping for movies for the trip. Movies: $80. Snacks: $20. My sanity on road trip tomorrow: priceless.
Needless to say I’m packing tonight and leaving first thing tomorrow. We’re headed to my parents house in MD and will be there until Sunday.