Mini-Vacay, Part Deux

So, overall our mini-vacay was great! We went to a Trivia Night on Sat. to help fund an inner-city school (which, btw, they were hoping to raise $8,000 and they made $13,000--pretty good for their first Trivia Night ever!). This was not the kind of trivia we were used to. First of all, there were TONS of questions about StL that I would have had to have been born 40+ years ago to even consider knowing. Plus, they had a Jelly Belly round where you had to taste aforementioned Jelly Bellies and pick which flavor they were from a supplied list. Jelly beans aren't my favorite anyway, so this was hard. But the money was for such a good cause (sidebar: my parent's really good friends' son teaches there) that you couldn't really get help but feel good!

Let's see..what else? Oh, Sun. was Father's Day so we hung out around the house and played Bags (which I'm not going to explain here but it's kind of like Tic Tac Do (the kind where you throw beanbags) or washers, if you've ever played either of those), while listening to some music and being happy for Shiner on a hot day. AND we met John's new girlfriend, Angie, who I really like! She's the kind of girl who seems like she'd be up for anything and she's really, really nice. She's a dance teacher and super skinny and cute. We'll see how it goes... And yes, we ate the ubiquitous Father's Day bbq.

On Mon. we played some Scrabble with John and Dad (I got my butt kicked) and left around 4:30pm to make a 6:50pm flight. We almost didn't make it. Even though it's never taken me longer than 45 min., max, to get to the airport, traffic was backed up as soon as we got on the highway and didn't stop until we got the rental car place, 90 min. later. Thankfully, our shuttle driver flew to the airport, we ran through the terminal (which I absolutely hate) and made it with about 5 min. to spare. Well, 5 min. if our flight had left on time, that is. God must have been looking out for us b/c the incoming flight didn't show up until about 7:15pm so we didn't start boarding until 7:30pm-ish. So, we were made it after all. I'm just glad I had the foresight to ask Steph to pick up Sam and Max on her way home since our flight didn't even get in until 8:45pm and there was no way in the world we could have made it by 9pm. Thanks, Stephsie, we love you!!!!

That's our trip in a nutshell. We had a good time and my parents will be here to visit in 17 days (hooray for great StL to DAL fares!) and I think fake mom will be here too, right about the same time. :D Max is getting some private training lessons for socialization, as well as learning basic commands, and he already knows Sit and Down, such a smart boy! In late Aug./early Sept. we'll be taking our real vacation (i.e. longer than 4 days) to San Francisco, Carmel and Monterey and if anyone knows of a good (and safe) hotel to stay in in SF, please let me know. Thanks for reading!