Just wanted to update you all on our Caribbean vacation. Here is the only picture I have.
You see....that's Hurricane Hanna (remember her?). Yes, our trip was cancelled. It was a bummer but probably a blessing in disguise because if we had gone ahead to Turks and Caicos, our destination, then we would have had to deal with Hurricane Ike as we left the week after Hanna.
It was a huge tra-la, indeed, but we purchased the trip insurance and will get all our money back less the $300 we paid in insurance....so all's not lost. I remember the night before we were supposed to leave I called the hotel we were supposed to be staying at and the front desk clerk, true to form, noted that the 50MPH winds weren't really that bad and that they'd get an update on the flooding on the island as soon as the power came back on at the hotel. :) Nice. Glad we missed it.
So, last weekend we decided we really needed to get away and decided to stay in one of the hotels my company owns on the Riverwalk. We drove on down to beautiful San Antonio and decided to take the "backroads" down....you know, it's our 10 days of autumn here in Texas and we thought it'd be a cool breezy drive through the Hill Country. Well, what I had imagined versus reality were a bit different. How's that? Well, you see, we have these two monkeys we drag with us wherever we go and they decided, about hour 2 of the 6 hour trip, that they had had ENOUGH of sitting in the car seats. Hey, I can't blame them. Sitting bassackwards in a bumpy Chevy Tahoe has gotta be a tad uncomfortable. So what better way to make Mom and Dad aware of your general displeasure than by crying and crying and crying, with a little poop-in-the-pants to spice it up?
Oh they really weren't that bad, but the trip took a little longer than we had imagined, and by the time we actually arrived in San Antonio, well, we were tired little puppies to say the least.
We did stop at a little town called Evant, Texas, and had a little Texas rest stop. Here are some pics from the road.
Here Boo decided she was going to drive the rest of the way, although I'm not sure she'd completely thought through the whole accelerator pedal problem and her 13" legs.
Here Maddie's decided that she can no longer wait for a bottle and has decided to eat her diaper. What a recycler! She's so green. (Yes, that's a quarter-pounder diaper my friends!)
So we had a great time in San Antonio...it was rather exhausting but no one fell in the river or actually expired during the trip so, by our count, it was a pretty good trip. The highlight of the trip for me was buying the girls Mexican dresses, renting a donkey,and taking pictures of the girls on donkeys with rifles in front of the Alamo. Well, we didn't really do that, but man I swear that would have been great! Maybe next year....when we decide on a place to go next year, we will have to Remember the Alamo.
Here they are in their Mexican dresses.....oh they are so cute.
So how's everything going with you? We're doing good....the girls are teething which is a joy, as those with kids can only know. Last week Boo poo'd so much from her teething that she got this super-bionic diaper rash that required doctor-prescribed ointment.
Which leads me to....why the heck don't they just sell this stuff over-the-counter? Is this ointment so powerful that it's not safe in the hands of the general public? If it were readily available to everyone without a prescription would we become lesser people or something? Is all the stuff that you can buy over-the-counter just ok enough that it MIGHT heal us, or to keep us in pain such that we just HAVE to call the doctor, incur a fee, so we can get this stuff?
I mean, I know, I'm not a rocket scientist but if they can sell SUPER GLUE over-the-counter, then why can't they sell diaper rash ointment the same way? I've never heard of anyone going to the hospital because they smeared diaper rash ointment on their privates or glued their fingers together with it (yes, I've done this (the finger gluing, smart-guy)). I mean, they sell GASOLINE without a prescription, and SUPER GLUE, and all other kinds of nasty stuff, but WHOA MAN....watch out....that's a tube of Mystatin Diaper Rash Ointment in your hands....I hope you're wearing a helmet and some eye protection. That's like holding a grenade! If that blows up on you, well, you may get rid of that rash, so BE CAREFUL!
Jeez....what's the deal with all these stupid rules?
Here's another stupid rule K-Petz and I talked about on the way to SA. (We talk a lot about rules because I don't particularly enjoy following rules and she thinks I should follow them....more on that in a sec). Here's a stupid rule....why do I have to wear a seat belt in my big car yet motorcycle riders don't have to wear helmets? They don't even wear seat belts....hell they don't even have a dress code (which for some folks might be a good idea). By the way, I strongly advocate wearing seat belts because, well, I'm trained as an engineer and I understand a concept called inertia, in that, once your car stops abruptly, the things inside it tend to keep going, such as, your head into the windshield, and a seat belt will keep your head from smashing into stuff (at least from the inside out).
Oh well....rules are meant to be broken...is what I say.
So, back to the update....
The girls are doing well. They will be crawling soon and I'm sure our house will turn into some sort of corral for wayward ponies looking thing, with gates and fences and all kinds of weird devices so babies can't stick their fingers in light sockets, etc. By the way, as a kid I don't think we had socket protector things and I never stuck my finger in light socket, mainly because THE SOCKET SLOTS ARE TOO SMALL FOR YOU TO GET YOUR FINGERS IN! I can tell that even without using a tape measure. But I know, you get cowed into buying all this plastic crap to stick all over your house and if you don't have it, well, everyone thinks you're too stupid or too poor or too careless to care about THE CHILDREN! WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN!?
Personally I say it's ok for kids to experience life in its raw form, with sharp edges and hot things so they know not to jack with those things. Hey, the big silver thing with the pots and pans is scary because it's hot...maybe I should stay away from it....plus Daddy yells at me when I get near it :) This weekend Maddie took a header right into the corner of a metal edged tile-covered table. You know , the kind of corner where you'd look at it and think "Man that would hurt like H-E-double hockey sticks if someone smashed their very small forehead into it..." Well, we did that, and it was actually not that bad. Maddie screamed and everyone in the restaurant careened their heads over to look at us, but, hey, she was fine after about 5 minutes, and now has this sporty new red racing stripe on here forehead. It's very tricked out. I don't think she smashed her head into anything after that...at least the front of her head that is.
Oh well...better close. Hope you have a super day. Check out our sweet videos. We're on YouTube!
