Steve and Em on the caterpillar ride.
Em and me on the carousel. Just to prove I was really there.
We’re back, Steve with a headache and unhealed hand injury, Em with a tummyache and exhaustion, and me with a headache, exhaustion, and unexplained dizziness. Maybe from the last leg of the trip, which I rode as a passenger instead of a driver.
Anyway, we’re home again. We had a great time and are looking forward to next year.
Some days you get the wave…
Some days the wave gets you.
The hotel we stay in when we go to the beach has a little kitchenette, so we cook some of our meals and save a little cash. I made my famous chocolate chip cookie dough at home, froze it, then packed it in a cooler along with some snacks for the trip.
Eating from-scratch chocolate chip cookies while overlooking the ocean. Life is good.
…did happen last night. With the usual results.
Sample:
Aleanghi: Flambe hangs back, out of sight as much as possible, and probably wondering what the hell he does if these two get killed.
I’m on vacation so I probably won’t be able to get an update posted right away. More adventures of Torkal, Palin, and Flambe the bat will be up… eventually!
Green snake, thinner than my pinky, crawling up some rusted metal leaning against the side of our house. It’s not the tree you think it is, little snake, but you can probably still catch some bugs.
I wonder how you got that rough patch on your back.
Em was brushing her teeth yesterday evening and looked out the window.
“Fireflies!”
She was so excited. We went out and caught them in our hands, and then got a mason jar. We both poked some holds in the lid with a screwdriver. Em wanted to catch ten, but they kept trying to crawl out of the jar when the lid was opened, so I suggested we just catch three. We settled on four.
Em brought them in and went into her closet and closed the door. The fireflies didn’t want to light up. We opened a window and set them free. We’ll try again tonight, weather permitting, and maybe put a little grass in the bottom of the jar to make them feel more at home.
I told Em how my mother’s birthday is in June, and she always used to look at the fireflies as a happy sign that her birthday was coming.
It was a pleasant evening during a time when things haven’t been going so great for Em. Let’s hope it’s a corner turned.
You may remember Em’s tooth pain from Friday night. Em went to the dentist today. Turns out that cavity she had already had filled extended down so far that it had created an infection under her tooth. We’re continuing with the amoxicillin, which the dentist estimates has a 50/50 chance of knocking the infection out.
If the amoxicillin doesn’t get it, the next course of action will be a root canal.
Everybody keep your fingers crossed that the amoxicillin does the trick.
