The Trip

This is going to be a text heavy, picture-lite post. Mrs B took most of the pictures while I was out in California with her and since she’s not coming back for another 2 weeks, it’ll be at least that long before I get any 😀

Thursday’s Schedule:

• Get up at 2:45am
• get to the airport, park the car, check in luggage, breeze through security
• I get the “special patdown” because my blood glucose sensor and insulin pump have sensitive enough electronics that the big whole body x-ray machine destroys them.
• Get on the plane, read for 2.5hrs, land at Midway airport.
• Sit around for 2.5hrs, eating and reading.
• Get on the plane, fly to Ontario California airport. 4.5hrs of MORE reading
• pick up our luggage and have the inlaws pick us up.
• Go to their place and take a nap.
• Got to Medieval Times for dinner and a show. I’ve been to Medieval Times once before about 15/16 years ago when Mrs B and I were courting. It was a blast then and I had a boatload of fun this time around too. Screamed myself hoarse in support of “our” knight, the Red Knight. Who turned out to be the good guy and won it all while defeating the evil Green Knight. Good stuff!
• Go home and sack out like the dead

Friday I remembered why I didn’t go with Mrs B to visit her family very often. I am a list oriented, goal driven kind of guy. You make plans for a day, you stick to those plans. The first problem is that nobody in that family makes plans. They all have “ideas”. And they end up doing what they want at a whim. Thankfully, I had fully put myself in vacation mode, so it didn’t bother me, but I ended up sitting at home while they did various errands they had all forgotten about. I did go grocery shopping with them and fortified myself with an arsenal of caffeine drinks. Both Mrs B and I would sack out around 8pm (11pm our time, as there’s a 3hr time zone difference) and then wake up at 2-3am. It made for some very long days. Thankfully, naps were always in order 🙂

Saturday we went to a gothic cathedral SDA church in Perris Lake. Mrs B took a bunch of pictures so I’m sure at some point they’ll show up here. I found this one online, so you at least get an idea of what it looked like. It was about an hrs drive each way and we arrived at 9:30 and didn’t leave until a bit after 1pm.

We celebrated Mrs B’s birthday once we were home and thankfully her brother was up and about (he works the night shift) so he could join the festivities too. It was a nice family affair. I had plans for the evening, but made the mistake of laying down for a power nap at 7pm and next thing I knew it was 3am on Sunday morning! 😀

Sunday was when I had to fly home. They dropped me off at the airport where I got that special pat down again and then I read and read and read. I read on the plane, I read at the layovers, I read as much as possible. There were some delays so my flight didn’t arrive until about 2am, so I chugged a monster energy drink for the drive home and booked it.

Now I have today to recover, get fully back on East Coast Time and prepare to go back to work tomorrow. See you around…