Monday 28th January:
Guess What!?! I'm back on the road hehe. Patrick came home the other night and I decided to go back out on the road with him. Our first load back out? Is to Oregon. So thats where we're heading. We're currently in Nebraska making our way there.
We had a bit of fun yesterday... but first I have to explain a bit about trucks, so hang in there with me. Trucks have 3 hoses going from the cab to the trailer. 1 is for the lights, and the other two are for breaks - a primary and an emergency. The emergency one (red) is the one we've had replaced twice now. The main (blue) keeps the breaks open so we can move, by forcing air through the line (on a truck, the breaks are always closed/engaged, the air keeps them open). So when you're travelling down the road, and you have issues with your main line, the emergency one will kick in and keep the air pressure up so the breaks don't kick in. While it will be okay, its something you should get checked out. So onto what happened yesterday, we were traveling through Iowa and i caught a glimpse of the truck shadow on the ground through my mirror and I noticed something moving around back there. I said something to pat and we pulled over at the next exit and he checked it out. We'd somehow managed to snap the blue (main) line, we're thinking that the cold temperatures had a lot to do with it becoming brittle and snapping. So we found the nearest truck stop and headed there. We made it without too much trouble. We caught a light, and in that time the pressure dropped a little too low and the truck wouldn't move. So we had to sit there and let it build up more pressure before we could go (much to the annoyance of the cars behind us). We got it replaced, and continued on our way, but it was a fun experience sitting in the middle of the road praying the truck could get more pressure and quickly.
Today we'll be crossing Nebraska and about half of Wyoming before we stop for the night, its about 600 miles give or take.
We're passing signs for the pony express outposts. Back in the wild west days when they used horse riders to deliver messages, aptly named the pony express. So every 15 miles they had little houses for the riders to relax, refresh their horses and get a good night sleep. Some of them are still around today though i'm not sure what kind of stat they're in. They're historical locations so i'd say they probably keep them in good condition as much as possible.
Oh we're about to pass "buffalo bill's ranch" how cool is that? unfortunately they don't have truck parking so we wont be able to stop. That would be one interesting place to visit with my camera some day.
Tuesday 29th January:
About 7am: Well the good news is we're parked, and made it here safely. The Bad news? we're stuck here in a jumble of trucks until the interstate reopens.
About 6 miles up the road from our exit an almighty storm hit, you couldn't see more than about 6 inches in front of you, which isn't too pretty when you've got about 50 or so trucks and a few cars thrown in for good measure. By the time we got up to the truck stop (took us 30 minutes to go 6 miles), it was chaos in the parking lot, they'd run out of parking spaces and the nearest truck stop was back a few miles but they were getting ready to close the other side of the interstate so that was a no go. They apparently opened the road up between here mile marker 209 and mile marker 155 where there's a small truck stop, which is already more than likely filled to the brim, just like this one, and just like the one thats back a few miles). So there's really no point going up to it, especially since its still dark outside.
wow, the kids have started on the CB, they're fighting and bickering. Everyone's patience is starting to wear thin. A lot of us have been stuck here since yesterday. The manager of the restaurant here said that the bad weather is moving away and that it should start clearing up today/tomorrow *sighs* At least the food is good, and there's clean bathrooms. I think the main thing people are waiting on is the wind to die down and the plows to come through.
10:30am: The wind is blowing really bad outside, which makes me glad that we don't have to leave the warm truck until lunchtime. Someone just broadcast the weather news, and its not looking good. Pat's decided we're not moving today. They closed the road, yet again. We've heard reports that the weather wont clear up until Saturday! I hope it clears up before then. Patrick called his dispatcher and told her what things are doing up here, and that its really really unlikely we'll make our delivery time in Oregon on Wednesday.
Bright side? we got ourselves a proper parking spot, rather than being stuck in the middle of the parking lot in a group of trucks. So yay, we don't have to worry too bad about blocking other people in.
I'll update again when I can, but don't worry about us. No load is worth our lives. So we'll stay right here until things clear up.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Saturday, January 26, 2008
Staying in for a couple of weeks....
Thursday 24th January:
I decided to take a break from being on the road for a couple of weeks, so I stayed behind at the house. Patrick left for the yard this morning, only to find out when he got there that there was something wrong with the truck that they had to put it back in for (i believe it had something to do with a hole in oil pan?), so he got recruited to go and pick up some leased trucks for the company with some other drivers. He's got his load which is pretty short so he'll pick it up early in the morning and deliver it, the customer its going to is only 3hrs away from the yard so thats cool.
Friday 25th January:
Pat called this morning, he was in Minnesota delivering then he had to pick up and bring a load back to Wisconsin. Fingers crossed they'll get him a load tomorrow rather than making him sit all weekend.
Things at the house are going pretty good despite the heat issue, as in our furnace is acting up, if it keep it up we'll have to call someone on Monday and get them to have a look. I'm sitting here enjoying subway for dinner (yum). Its starting to snow, so the roads are a little slick. We'll be staying in tonight and having a nice quiet evening.
I decided to take a break from being on the road for a couple of weeks, so I stayed behind at the house. Patrick left for the yard this morning, only to find out when he got there that there was something wrong with the truck that they had to put it back in for (i believe it had something to do with a hole in oil pan?), so he got recruited to go and pick up some leased trucks for the company with some other drivers. He's got his load which is pretty short so he'll pick it up early in the morning and deliver it, the customer its going to is only 3hrs away from the yard so thats cool.
Friday 25th January:
Pat called this morning, he was in Minnesota delivering then he had to pick up and bring a load back to Wisconsin. Fingers crossed they'll get him a load tomorrow rather than making him sit all weekend.
Things at the house are going pretty good despite the heat issue, as in our furnace is acting up, if it keep it up we'll have to call someone on Monday and get them to have a look. I'm sitting here enjoying subway for dinner (yum). Its starting to snow, so the roads are a little slick. We'll be staying in tonight and having a nice quiet evening.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
photo post....flowers, sunrises, rockets
Beautifully chilly morning in Alabama, but I absolutely loved the sunrise shot I got walking across the grounds at the welcome center for the state. I really love this photo and I hope you do too.
The Alabama state welcome center actually has a rocket! how cool is it. I didn't walk all the way over to it because it was extremely cold that morning. We've been past it a few times but never had time to stop when I had a decent camera with us. Next time I'll walk over and explore it a bit better.
Alabama's state creed. This was taken at the official welcome center for the state.
Memorial Highway sign in Alabama.
A really pretty coloured flower that caught my eye. I couldn't resist stopping and taking a photo despite the cold chilly weather.
Close up of a pretty flower in Alabama.
A really cute yellow flower. Despite it being extremely cold that morning, I had to stop and take a photo of this potted flower.
I don't remember what state this was in, but it was rather early one morning. I loved how bright and intense the colours were, and well the fact we'd been up since 2am made me a little wacky and camera happy. I don't even entirely mind the power/phone pole in the way.
Wow!
Firstly, let me say Hi and welcome to my new readers! My apologies if it took me awhile to get you the link to my blog. I have a horrible memory, thats my only excuse really. Its really nice to have this blog, it makes it a lot easier to let you guys know whats going on with us. Feel free to leave lots of comments and check back often! I've been slack lately about updating but in my defense, its been so busy! its nice to have a few days to rest, relax and catch up on things.
Yes! we're finally at home, and really enjoying our home time. Today I did some laundry, cleaned the house a little, played with settings on my computer to make it run a little better, which was interesting. Watched a little tv and played world of warcraft for a wee bit.
We're staying at home until Thursday when we're heading out on the road again for 2 weeks, so if you want to call tomorrow/tomorrow night would be a good opportunity.
Well i'm gonna go end this post and start organising the photos that i've been meaning to post for awhile! enjoy!
Yes! we're finally at home, and really enjoying our home time. Today I did some laundry, cleaned the house a little, played with settings on my computer to make it run a little better, which was interesting. Watched a little tv and played world of warcraft for a wee bit.
We're staying at home until Thursday when we're heading out on the road again for 2 weeks, so if you want to call tomorrow/tomorrow night would be a good opportunity.
Well i'm gonna go end this post and start organising the photos that i've been meaning to post for awhile! enjoy!
Monday, January 21, 2008
Wohooo my 50th Post! 4 day's worth of updates.
Thursday 17th January:
Early morning this morning, went from Tye, Texas to Ardmore Oklahoma. Delivered the load then went to pick up our next delivery in Tulsa. We got to go through Indian reservation area's today which was pretty cool.
They had some pretty crazy weather down here lately, there was a lot of damage to trees as we were going down the road. Pine trees, snapped in half!
Friday 18th January:
Unfortunately we wont be home on the 19th as we'd liked. The only load they had that they could give us which heads north, is in Louisiana. So we got a load going from Oklahoma to Louisiana (which we're currently on). That delivers today, then we're told the load going north wont be delivered until "early next week" which we take to mean monday or tuesday. Sorry to anyone who might've wanted to call this weekend.
They've decided to swap us out with a different load because the area that this load is meant to be going to only has loads heading towards california, which isn't the direction we want to go. Unfortunately the place we delivered to messed us around for awhile so we wont be able to get as far as we'd like tonight.
Stopped at a local small town truck stop tonight which was really good. They had a restaurant next door and since we were both hungry we stopped in for a bite before bed. There was a bunch of older people in there sitting around chatting. Was really nice to listen to. They were awesome. Really nice folks.
sleeeeeep...i need sleeeeeeep.
Saturday 19th January:
Started our day about 5am and headed to LIttle Rock, Arkansas to swap out loads. Got there and thankfully he was awake so we could swap loads and head out. We decided not to push too hard yesterday, our goal was Alorton, Illinois (near St Louis, Missouri). Pretty boring day for the most part. I read for awhile on our way to the truck stop, and for awhile once we got there. Even managed to get a little World of Warcraft playing done (you really need high speed connections to play it, so its not often on the road we get high speed, and time to play - had to make the most of it). I played for about an hour before we headed to bed.
Sunday 20th January:
Heading up to Richfield, Wisconsin tonight because its pretty close to where we're delivering tomorrow morning. I'm hoping that we'll get told to just head back to the yard without a load so we can go home for our home time.
I'm a bit sad because Shana is leaving to head back to college today. We've been working really damn hard to get back in time because she thought she could leave as late as Wednesday. Unfortunately the weather isn't looking good which means she's going to leave today so she doesn't have to rush through bad weather.
I'm really looking forward to having some time at the house to relax and get a few things done. We're only going to be in for 2 days this time, then back out for 2 weeks.
Random fact: Monday is Martin Luther King Jr's birthday here. Its celebrated on the 3rd monday in January.
Early morning this morning, went from Tye, Texas to Ardmore Oklahoma. Delivered the load then went to pick up our next delivery in Tulsa. We got to go through Indian reservation area's today which was pretty cool.
They had some pretty crazy weather down here lately, there was a lot of damage to trees as we were going down the road. Pine trees, snapped in half!
Friday 18th January:
Unfortunately we wont be home on the 19th as we'd liked. The only load they had that they could give us which heads north, is in Louisiana. So we got a load going from Oklahoma to Louisiana (which we're currently on). That delivers today, then we're told the load going north wont be delivered until "early next week" which we take to mean monday or tuesday. Sorry to anyone who might've wanted to call this weekend.
They've decided to swap us out with a different load because the area that this load is meant to be going to only has loads heading towards california, which isn't the direction we want to go. Unfortunately the place we delivered to messed us around for awhile so we wont be able to get as far as we'd like tonight.
Stopped at a local small town truck stop tonight which was really good. They had a restaurant next door and since we were both hungry we stopped in for a bite before bed. There was a bunch of older people in there sitting around chatting. Was really nice to listen to. They were awesome. Really nice folks.
sleeeeeep...i need sleeeeeeep.
Saturday 19th January:
Started our day about 5am and headed to LIttle Rock, Arkansas to swap out loads. Got there and thankfully he was awake so we could swap loads and head out. We decided not to push too hard yesterday, our goal was Alorton, Illinois (near St Louis, Missouri). Pretty boring day for the most part. I read for awhile on our way to the truck stop, and for awhile once we got there. Even managed to get a little World of Warcraft playing done (you really need high speed connections to play it, so its not often on the road we get high speed, and time to play - had to make the most of it). I played for about an hour before we headed to bed.
Sunday 20th January:
Heading up to Richfield, Wisconsin tonight because its pretty close to where we're delivering tomorrow morning. I'm hoping that we'll get told to just head back to the yard without a load so we can go home for our home time.
I'm a bit sad because Shana is leaving to head back to college today. We've been working really damn hard to get back in time because she thought she could leave as late as Wednesday. Unfortunately the weather isn't looking good which means she's going to leave today so she doesn't have to rush through bad weather.
I'm really looking forward to having some time at the house to relax and get a few things done. We're only going to be in for 2 days this time, then back out for 2 weeks.
Random fact: Monday is Martin Luther King Jr's birthday here. Its celebrated on the 3rd monday in January.
Friday, January 18, 2008
3 rolled into 1 update
Monday 14th January:
Yesterday was pretty cruisy, spend the day in Shreveport, Louisiana reading and waiting for this morning when we could deliver our load.
Got up early this morning, delivered our load. Played musical loads for a couple of hours until we finally got settled on one we could deliver yay. Went and picked it up and started heading towards where its delivering - El Paso, Texas. Got until Wednesday to get that delivered and then we'll be heading back towards the house (hopefully) for our home time on the 19th.
Not feeling particularly good tonight, the food was good.. i think. I got to try a dish called "pulled bbq pork" which was bits of pork strips fried, the best thing - the batter tasted just like batter they use on hot dogs and fish in new zealand. It was fabulous.
Tuesday 15th January:
Driving through the "countryside" in texas, the small towns and open fields are all around at the moment.
I didn't get a chance to tell you guys about what we saw in Louisiana the other day. Driving down the interstate in rural area's its not unusual to see crop spraying going on. There's signs all over warning about low flying planes and to be careful, keep an eye out for them. Well we were watching a little yellow plane flying around, circling getting ready to line up to spray a field, when he gets really really low to the ground and had the nerve to fly right between two trucks! It shocked the heck out of me, but I was glad we weren't one of the trucks he did that to. He could've been a little higher up and still got the field he was aiming for but he just wanted to show off I guess. I think I got a photo of the plane, and if it turned out okay i'll post it when I do my next photo post.
Here's an interesting fact about rural Texas: they like driving pickup trucks. Seriously! they're all over out here. I think in a period of about 20 minutes we saw only 2 or 3 vehicles that weren't pickup's. Its pretty awesome. The terrain around here, and the amount of farms, oil fields and such.
Wednesday 16th January:
Bit of an early morning this morning. We decided to head over to the customer, waited 2 hours before they got us in a door to unload, and we've just arrived at the second place to unload.
We've seen so much on our travels the past couple of days. We drove through this cute little town called "Stanton" which has a big sign up saying "Welcome to stanton, home to 3000 good folks and a few old sore heads". Makes me giggle every time.
The other 2 really odd things happening involve the border patrol by El Paso (since its right near the border with mexico they are kinda like an extra police force. Anyways on our way to El Paso there was obviously something going because they had about 10 patrol cars driving along the side of the interstate (in the shrub area off to the side, searching for something, as well as a helicopter! I've no idea what was going on though.
Lastly, today as we were approaching the check point (where they do searches and make sure you're not smuggling illegals into the country, they had cops about 10 miles down the road telling people to get into the right lane and slow down. Everyone was a little confused until we got up a little closer and realised there had been a bad crash involving a semi (which was laying on its side in the middle and across one lane either direction, as well as 3 cars that had damage. We saw ambulances and such go past, and a hazmat crew heading that way so my guess is that diesel fuel had leaked, but that no one was killed. There was so many cars from the local police, border patrol, state troopers, fire, ambulance workers... just to name a few. I'm glad everyone was okay.
As for us, we have an early delivery tomorrow so its an early night for us and a 3am start.
Yesterday was pretty cruisy, spend the day in Shreveport, Louisiana reading and waiting for this morning when we could deliver our load.
Got up early this morning, delivered our load. Played musical loads for a couple of hours until we finally got settled on one we could deliver yay. Went and picked it up and started heading towards where its delivering - El Paso, Texas. Got until Wednesday to get that delivered and then we'll be heading back towards the house (hopefully) for our home time on the 19th.
Not feeling particularly good tonight, the food was good.. i think. I got to try a dish called "pulled bbq pork" which was bits of pork strips fried, the best thing - the batter tasted just like batter they use on hot dogs and fish in new zealand. It was fabulous.
Tuesday 15th January:
Driving through the "countryside" in texas, the small towns and open fields are all around at the moment.
I didn't get a chance to tell you guys about what we saw in Louisiana the other day. Driving down the interstate in rural area's its not unusual to see crop spraying going on. There's signs all over warning about low flying planes and to be careful, keep an eye out for them. Well we were watching a little yellow plane flying around, circling getting ready to line up to spray a field, when he gets really really low to the ground and had the nerve to fly right between two trucks! It shocked the heck out of me, but I was glad we weren't one of the trucks he did that to. He could've been a little higher up and still got the field he was aiming for but he just wanted to show off I guess. I think I got a photo of the plane, and if it turned out okay i'll post it when I do my next photo post.
Here's an interesting fact about rural Texas: they like driving pickup trucks. Seriously! they're all over out here. I think in a period of about 20 minutes we saw only 2 or 3 vehicles that weren't pickup's. Its pretty awesome. The terrain around here, and the amount of farms, oil fields and such.
Wednesday 16th January:
Bit of an early morning this morning. We decided to head over to the customer, waited 2 hours before they got us in a door to unload, and we've just arrived at the second place to unload.
We've seen so much on our travels the past couple of days. We drove through this cute little town called "Stanton" which has a big sign up saying "Welcome to stanton, home to 3000 good folks and a few old sore heads". Makes me giggle every time.
The other 2 really odd things happening involve the border patrol by El Paso (since its right near the border with mexico they are kinda like an extra police force. Anyways on our way to El Paso there was obviously something going because they had about 10 patrol cars driving along the side of the interstate (in the shrub area off to the side, searching for something, as well as a helicopter! I've no idea what was going on though.
Lastly, today as we were approaching the check point (where they do searches and make sure you're not smuggling illegals into the country, they had cops about 10 miles down the road telling people to get into the right lane and slow down. Everyone was a little confused until we got up a little closer and realised there had been a bad crash involving a semi (which was laying on its side in the middle and across one lane either direction, as well as 3 cars that had damage. We saw ambulances and such go past, and a hazmat crew heading that way so my guess is that diesel fuel had leaked, but that no one was killed. There was so many cars from the local police, border patrol, state troopers, fire, ambulance workers... just to name a few. I'm glad everyone was okay.
As for us, we have an early delivery tomorrow so its an early night for us and a 3am start.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Its raining....its pouring
Friday 11th January:
Had a wonderful dinner last night and got a good night's sleep so everything is going wonderful today. Got to our delivery place with no hassle and it seems that what damage was caused by the storm last night isn't hindering traffic. Its beautiful and sunny out today, hard to believe how rough things were last night.
Got our weekend load just a few minutes ago, we're heading to Texas which is very cool, I like Texas (though i'm not too fond of traffic in the dallas/ft worth area its two huge cities right next to each other and it makes for really long back ups if there's an accident). Its about a 600 mile run so we'll have a nice leisurely trip over there from Alabama where we're currently at.
Saturday 12th January:
We made it to Louisiana tonight before we decided to stop. We're only about 3 hours from where we need to be on monday so its all good, we can have a relaxing day tomorrow.
It stormed a little today but it was after we'd parked up, so we ran inside and had an early dinner just incase it decided to get worse but it didn't. It rained for awhile, and I think it might actually be down to a light drizzle by now.
I've got a few photos I took the other day to post but I'll try uploading them tomorrow. As for now I'm playing around with a few settings on th blog because it seems people have been having issues trying to comment. I hope I can get it sorted :P because I love hearing from you guys. For some reason it doesn't email you to tell you i've responded, but keep checking back here, I might've!
If you notice a bunch of older posts turning it its because for some reason it saved them as drafts instead of posting them. Bah, silly blog.
Had a wonderful dinner last night and got a good night's sleep so everything is going wonderful today. Got to our delivery place with no hassle and it seems that what damage was caused by the storm last night isn't hindering traffic. Its beautiful and sunny out today, hard to believe how rough things were last night.
Got our weekend load just a few minutes ago, we're heading to Texas which is very cool, I like Texas (though i'm not too fond of traffic in the dallas/ft worth area its two huge cities right next to each other and it makes for really long back ups if there's an accident). Its about a 600 mile run so we'll have a nice leisurely trip over there from Alabama where we're currently at.
Saturday 12th January:
We made it to Louisiana tonight before we decided to stop. We're only about 3 hours from where we need to be on monday so its all good, we can have a relaxing day tomorrow.
It stormed a little today but it was after we'd parked up, so we ran inside and had an early dinner just incase it decided to get worse but it didn't. It rained for awhile, and I think it might actually be down to a light drizzle by now.
I've got a few photos I took the other day to post but I'll try uploading them tomorrow. As for now I'm playing around with a few settings on th blog because it seems people have been having issues trying to comment. I hope I can get it sorted :P because I love hearing from you guys. For some reason it doesn't email you to tell you i've responded, but keep checking back here, I might've!
If you notice a bunch of older posts turning it its because for some reason it saved them as drafts instead of posting them. Bah, silly blog.
Friday, January 11, 2008
Crazy Weather
Hi guys! all is going well on the road with us. We're currently in kentucky heading towards Alabama. We decided to stop due to rough weather in the area but we're safe where we are. There was a tornado watch out for an area nearby but that expired without any incidents. I just wanted let you guy know where we are so you wouldn't worry if you guys heard about the crazy weather going on here.
As for me i'm off to bed, we're getting up about 5am tomorrow so i'm going to catch an early night and get a good nights sleep.
take care guys!
As for me i'm off to bed, we're getting up about 5am tomorrow so i'm going to catch an early night and get a good nights sleep.
take care guys!
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Quick Update
Sunday 6th January:
At the moment we're sitting in Tennessee, only about half an hour from the state line with North Carolina where we're delivering tomorrow (though its not meant to be delivered until the 8th hehe, we're a day ahead of ourselves).
Had a pretty good day today, we ran hard to get up here because we heard the roads were a bit rough, so we wanted to have that little extra room to take it slow, but it was clear all the way up here.
Spent the evening reading and watching a little Stargate Atlantis.
Monday 7th January:
Delivered about 10am this morning and got our reload which is taking us back up to Wisconsin (but no home time - yet). We're spending the night just inside the Kentucky/Tennessee state line and we'll be leaving out of here early in the morning to get a full day of driving in.
Pretty uneventful day today really, we're just sitting here reading. Pat's reading "A dirty Job" by Christopher Moore, and i'm reading "Fluke, or I know why the winged whale sings" also by Christopher Moore. Had Hardee's for dinner tonight, yum. I actually prefer that to mcdonalds over here in america, I haven't had the greatest experiences with mcd's here.
well i'm about to head to bed, i've had a bit of a headache on and off today so hopefully some ibuprofen (panadol) and a good night's sleep will help get rid of it.
At the moment we're sitting in Tennessee, only about half an hour from the state line with North Carolina where we're delivering tomorrow (though its not meant to be delivered until the 8th hehe, we're a day ahead of ourselves).
Had a pretty good day today, we ran hard to get up here because we heard the roads were a bit rough, so we wanted to have that little extra room to take it slow, but it was clear all the way up here.
Spent the evening reading and watching a little Stargate Atlantis.
Monday 7th January:
Delivered about 10am this morning and got our reload which is taking us back up to Wisconsin (but no home time - yet). We're spending the night just inside the Kentucky/Tennessee state line and we'll be leaving out of here early in the morning to get a full day of driving in.
Pretty uneventful day today really, we're just sitting here reading. Pat's reading "A dirty Job" by Christopher Moore, and i'm reading "Fluke, or I know why the winged whale sings" also by Christopher Moore. Had Hardee's for dinner tonight, yum. I actually prefer that to mcdonalds over here in america, I haven't had the greatest experiences with mcd's here.
well i'm about to head to bed, i've had a bit of a headache on and off today so hopefully some ibuprofen (panadol) and a good night's sleep will help get rid of it.
Friday, January 4, 2008
Yes we're at the house...
So we're at the house now! YAY. We actually got to go home on the 31st but by the time we stopped for dinner and got a few things done it was getting a little late.
Tuesday we relaxed around the house, I caught up on a couple of the things I needed to do while at home so that was very good. We also went the movies last night to see "Aliens VS Predators Requiem". After we got home we watched some DVD's we rented yesterday including "War" (Starring Jet Li), Balls of Fury (comedy), Stardust (Fantasy based on a book by Neil Gaiman) and Resident Evil: Extinction. They weren't half bad, though I wasn't as impressed with "War" as I though I would be.
Yesterday we took Marj and Alan to the city to see "The Golden Compass" (we had already seen it, they hadn't), our local theater guy only had it playing for a week or two which sucks. Oh well it gave us an excuse to go into the city and have a look around.
If anyone wants to call us, any time tomorrow/tomorrow night would be best because we're heading back out on the road on Saturday (our time).
We finally remember to get batteries for my Electronic penguin called Simon. He's so cute, you plug him into speakers and he plays the music instead, as well as chirps, dances and plays a little light show on his belly. Its so cute! It was a birthday present from my brother in law.
Anyways, I'm really really tired so I'm going to have an early night (I say as it is about to hit midnight). So I'll catch up with you guys again soon.
Tuesday we relaxed around the house, I caught up on a couple of the things I needed to do while at home so that was very good. We also went the movies last night to see "Aliens VS Predators Requiem". After we got home we watched some DVD's we rented yesterday including "War" (Starring Jet Li), Balls of Fury (comedy), Stardust (Fantasy based on a book by Neil Gaiman) and Resident Evil: Extinction. They weren't half bad, though I wasn't as impressed with "War" as I though I would be.
Yesterday we took Marj and Alan to the city to see "The Golden Compass" (we had already seen it, they hadn't), our local theater guy only had it playing for a week or two which sucks. Oh well it gave us an excuse to go into the city and have a look around.
If anyone wants to call us, any time tomorrow/tomorrow night would be best because we're heading back out on the road on Saturday (our time).
We finally remember to get batteries for my Electronic penguin called Simon. He's so cute, you plug him into speakers and he plays the music instead, as well as chirps, dances and plays a little light show on his belly. Its so cute! It was a birthday present from my brother in law.
Anyways, I'm really really tired so I'm going to have an early night (I say as it is about to hit midnight). So I'll catch up with you guys again soon.
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