It's been a long week...

The whole famiy went on vacation this weekend to Appleton to see my sister. We took the truck, because mom's car had no Air conditioning. However, opting not to take the topper was a big mistake.... which I'll explain why later on.

We were visiting to celebrate my neice's 2nd birthday party -- at Toys 'R' US. Some of the kids my sister invited didn't show up, so we were invited to help the kids play games. Yay. One of the games involved parading around the store (to get everyone's attention on the Birthday girl) with noise makers and bright scarves. We got everyone's attention, all right. Everyone stared, but the kids loved it.

We HAD to watch Wallace and Grommit (my family had never seen show), which is a British comedy. I adore it -- its about a man and his dog, a dog who is quite clever. Of course, by the time we left for home it was about 8 or 9 pm, and it looked like rain, which posed a bit of a problem, since we had no topper...

Mom had done a bit of shopping while we were there, and her purchases fit in the back of truck well enough; except it was going to rain, so we had to put the bags in boxes and then wrap the boxes in plastic.

This method worked reasonably well -- until the wind started, and the plastic started flapping madly about. We had to stop and buy duct tape to tape the bags shut. Duct tape, again, saved the day. Hmmm... perhaps this should have been titled, "Things rednecks do..." Can you picture us? Driving in a pickup truck, trashbags (with boxes inside them) flapping madly in the wind, taped together with duct tape... we even had the dog in the truck. :P

We got home at one in the morning, and I had an 8am appt, then a class at my new job from 9 - 2:30. It was a great thrill getting up in the morning, too. Right. Ah well, had I realized it was going to be one of those Mondays, I would have stayed in bed...

(to be continued)