Trip!

Ok, we finally got the road trip thing out of our systems! lol
We went to Roseburg this weekend. The plan was to go crabbing at the coast with IL's and out on the FIL's new boat. Well - it didn't work out that way at all!
Here's what happened -
Friday - I came to work to find that I had flooded and made a huge mess, my fault and it's a stupid mistake I will hopefully not but probably will make again! So, I spend a few hours getting things together and cleaning that mess up. We leave (thanks to my wonderful friend and daycare as-needed provider, Christy, we got to go without kids - YAY) at around noon. We get all the way to Ontario (30 min. away) and the dog, Roxy, decides that it's a great time to go into heat! So after stopping at the nearest store and buying the only thing that we could find that would work - we are back on the road. Roxy is wearing her new HULK T-shirt and boys briefs (worn backwards for the tail to come out of the hole. hehe).

We take our time a little bit and stop a few times for a little fun on the river. hehe
We end up getting into town pretty late, but when we rolled through a friends house at 12am we were lucky enough that they wanted to take Simon (the incredibly dumb dog we've had for a few months - we had full intentions of getting him a new home some time on the trip!) off of our hands and all was well. I'm SO excited that I don't have to think about what is going to be found destroyed when I get home from a very long day at work!!! YaY Simon found a home! :)
So we get into town pretty late and stop by the bar to say hello to a few friends. We had a "that's why we don't live here anymore" moment and then headed to the IL's house to sleep. It was really nice to not have to worry about the kids. The dog though - man it was a pain! The next time we go on any outing by ourselves, we aren't taking any dog! It's so nice to feel free to decide on a whim that we want to change our plans and do something that's not easy to do with kids in tow.

Saturday we had a pretty good day - though we didn't go crabbing! We went to breakfast where Adrian played a game of Keno and bet on our September birthdays - and WON! He won $72! That helped a lot!

Then we went around visiting different people we've missed and some we realized that maybe we didn't miss as much as we thought. lol (j.k.!)

When we still thought we were going to go out on the boat we were getting it ready to get hooked up on the truck and I was digging around in the back of the truck. I had climbed up into it and when I backed myself down I hit on some medal piece of the tounge of the trailer - in the middle of my thigh. OWWWW!!!! It tore my pants, which really pissed me off because they are one of the few that actually fit COMFORTABLY! So I have this huge black bruise on my thigh that looks horrible and there is a nice big square of flesh in the middle of it from where it scraped all the skin off. Yuck.

So, my favorite part of the trip - Saturday afternoon. It was beautiful outside, perfect temp for me, mid 70's. I insisted that we go to the park and lay on a blanket on the grass in the sun - no phones, no card games - NO distractions. It was awesome. We stayed for a little over an hour and man I soaked up every minute of it. I so wish we could do that more. It's something that makes us just pay attention to each other and we just enjoy each other and the love is just so strong. It doesn't happen like that when we take the dogs or the kids, there's just always something distracting us.

Sunday proved to be a very very long day. We finally got home sometime around 12am, and found that I had forgotten to pay the gas bill and it was shut off while I was gone, which meant that we had no hot water to shower with. EEK. So we did it the old fashioned way and heated water in pots on the stove to put in the bath. It was a pain, but I didn't mind too much. It was more a pain because I was so darned tired!

So we ended up sleeping through the alarm and we were both late to work. I can't wait to go to bed at 8pm tonight. It will feel incredibly good! :)

So that's my weekly update. Happy Monday everyone. :)