Showing posts with label vacation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vacation. Show all posts

Thursday, February 19, 2009

The Winter of Our Discontent

Alternate title:  Two Weeks Until Vacation!  WOOT!

My fellow Arctic Dwellers and I decided waaaaay back in December that we were already disgusted with winter.  Why, hello -18 degrees, kiss my butt!.  Frozen water bottle on the floor of my bedroom?  I smite thee with my burning burning hate! 

Anyway.  It was agreed upon by all (all three of us) that we need to plan a vacation to somewhere warm sometime in the late winter.  We had three main objectives in mind in our planning:

1.  We need to go somewhere we've never been.

2.  We need to beat the Spring Break craziness.  

3.  Whatever we do, we'll miss two fricken' weeks of Winter here, thereby putting us that much closer to lovely, lovely Springtime.  Oh, happy days!

The general plan is to head south through New Mexico to Santa Fe, continuing down to Roswell and eventually Carlsbad.  My husband says that the Carlsbad Caverns are kinda nifty, so we'll stop and tour them and then turn east towards Texas.  I think we're going to spend some time in San Antonio, because there's lots to see and do there, and then that's it for our concrete plans.  In general, we prefer to play things by ear.  I think we're going to stay gone as long as time and money hold out.  

I can hardly wait!


Thursday, February 12, 2009

Five things for today.

1.  Happy Darwin Day!

2.  I dropped a bottle of hot sauce on my toe.  It still hurts.

3.  I am soothing the hurt with beer and by downloading the latest episode of Lost.

4.  Today is Friday for our family.  My husband is off for the next four days.  Our plans include going to see Coraline!  Woot!  You seriously cannot go wrong with Neil Gaiman.

5.  In three weeks, we are leaving town and heading South and East for a vacation.  There will be aliens, caverns and rollercoasters.