Let's see, I worked 6 days straight leading up to my 9 day vacation. My buddy Z was going to be leaving us for a different job the week I was on vacation, so a small group of us went out for Sushi and Fro-yo Wednesday, the 1st!
Top: M, me, Z, and C.
Very long week, one of my good friends, A, who I work with, was on vacation the week before I went. It made my week a very long week, since i didn't see her for a total of 17 days. We text daily, but it's not the same thing. She and I (and about 2 other people) all keep each other from going nuts where we work, and her absence (and mine the week after, per her) was felt.
Onto Friday the 3rd... worked til 6pm, got up here to grab the kids and TechGuy, and we were off to his parents' house to meet up with my Babydukes, her bf, cousin, and cousin's bf for fun and Fireworks!! It was great! I got Dukes time, TechGuy time, and fireworks! (Nope, not obsessed, lol)
TechGuy was on call 4th of July weekend, and with the rain (on and off all day), and the need to pack for vacation, as well as maintenance work and front dash rebuilding on the RV, we didn't get to go to Uncle J's or Fireworks that night.
He took the whole thing above apart, as it was in some kind of plastic, and spent the week rebuilding this. It's plexiglas, with a vinyl covering. And the Sirius station is set to my favorite, 80s on 8!
I was disappointed, but was glad I at least got to go see the Fireworks the night before. I spent the day packing, posing my dolls for 4th of July photoshoots, and straightening up our house before our sojourn.
10 of my girls... (think I probably have 17 or so)
L: Delia June, R: Savannah and Dahlia
L: Kendalyn and Verena R: Michiko and Jaelin
We did do a Independence day cookout in between the rain and working on the RV, with hamburgers, turkey burgers (me!) hot dogs, corn on the cob, and (for myself and one of the roommates who lives in our barn apartment) Hypnotic over ice (kids, that would be alcohol, so if you're under 21, that's a no-go). TechGuy laughed when he saw the gallon sized ziplock full of doll clothes for Kendalyn and Michiko, but like the supportive, good-at-humoring guy he is, just took it all in stride and packed some of his train models to build.
Sunday was a bit more difficult that I'd figured. I did last minute shopping, got back, and TechGuy was busy working on the pestilence issue we've had for a while. We didn't get to head to the Outer Banks until around 4:30, as we had to wait for TechGuy's boss to call it a day for weekend overtime maintenance issues, and take his work van back to the business location.
Other than getting carsick from the rocking of the RV on the back roads, it was a good ride down. The first event of the vacation that I can't believe happened fell around 10pm Sunday on our drive down. I'd been asleep til around 9:45 or so, from the benadryl I'd taken to get rid of the nausea. Woke up hungry, (and if anyone knows me, there is a window between whenever I wake up and food that has to be met, or I become really crabby. It's really bad, low blood sugar or something, I don't know.) and nothing but fast food chains were around the highway. And all of them closed their inside dining around 9 or 10pm, and by now, it was 10:15. We had to, between rainstorms, take my little car off the car dolly we were hauling behind the huge, bus RV.
TechGuy's parents' RV we got to borrow for a bit for our jaunt.
We drove thru the drive-thru (since apparently you can't walk through, I wanted to, lol), got our food, and TechGuy got my car back on the Dolly just before the next storm hit. We didn't get into Midgett Campground (in Rodanthe, NC) until after midnight, but it was a pretty drive down with the lightning and the moon after the storm being so bright.
That's it for now, will post about the vacation in the next post so that this one isn't monstrously long! Thanks for reading, guys!
