Ready for Blast-Off!

What a day! First clean up after last nights party. Then a birthday breakfast with Adam and Jackie at Rebecca's (because we will be gone for Adam's birthday and Jackie had to work tonight, so that was the only time today we could all sit down for a meal together). By the way, if you are ever in Linesville, Pa., stop at Rebecca's restaurant on Main St - you will be glad you did!

Anyway, back to our day... after breakfast, it was back to the house to get some packing done. Then I had to head over to the school to direct the band during our graduation ceremony while Dawn continued packing [then she got to relax for a little while. Not fair!]. I came home, changed, then we jumped on the bike to run up to Mel's house... you know that 'elephant that I saw fly' yesterday? Well, it didn't fly very far! Mel was having trouble getting the computer to cooperate... go figure! In his defense, we gave him a pretty crummy mouse with the computer that wouldn't double click very well and we all know that in the computer world if you are without a 'double click' ability, you are simply dead in the water[well... computer]!

So we got up to Mel's house [about an hour and ten minute drive], identified the problem as the mouse [basically, after he told me it wouldn't do anything, I sat down and double clicked the icon and the web page sprang to life... he asked in amazement, "How did you do that?"], then ran to K-Mart to get a new one [along with some last minute odds and ends for the trip], zipped back to his house and installed it along with AVG for a little virus protection and headed for home.

Next we stopped at two graduation parties then returned home where we finished packing [I can swear that we had way more room on our trial run a couple weeks ago and when I shared that with Dawn, she became a bit defensive and said, "I only packed ONE extra shirt! Honest!" Well, we'll see about that when we get to our hotel tomorrow night. If there is more than her allotment, we are finding a post office to send the stowaway clothes home or will give them to a goodwill center. There will be none of that unfair packing advantage for the girl thing on this trip!].

I cleaned all the bugs off of the bike that had accumulated from our trip today [because you simply cannot begin a Great Adventure with a very dense coating of bug guts - it definitely breaks some of our man rules!] then, somehow we fit all the puzzle pieces together into the bags and onto the bike. Simply unbelievable! How she fit that shower into the trunk, I will never know!

Now I find myself typing.... [hmmm... overstating the obvious again....]

Next it is off to the shower then to bed only to toss and turn all night cause I can't sleep then fall into a very deep sleep 10 minutes before the alarm goes off! Get up for church, worship like there is no tomorrow then BLAST OFF INTO THE GREAT ADVENTURE!!!!!

Oh, that sounds like a wonderful game plan. Just a wake up left to go, baby! Good night all, and God bless!