Odds and Ends

So hello all! Yes I returned from my Kelowna trip AWHILE ago and have not got back to blogging since *sigh* Funny how fast the days turn into weeks. So I will give a quick (LONG) run down on the trip and what's been going on.

The trip went fine overall. There were a few blips on the radar such as my Mother not liking to listen to music, radio or ANYTHING while driving. This I find very hard to do on a 6 hour car journey!! I like some Madonna or U2 on the way to fill the conversation voids and I find the trip goes faster while daydreaming about some earlier time in my teens (hehe). NOPE not on Judy's watch..we are at 10 and 2 and eyes on the road making sure the needle never skips above the speed limit or I am reminded that any tickets will be on me...nice! Long conversations about where things went wrong in my teen years and she always blames a certain boyfriend for my undoing..ugh....it's the longest 6 hours of my life every year.

I thought that this year I would bring the laptop with me so I could look things up on the Internet (restaurants, things to do, etc) while we were up there as the Internet was free!! Bonus!! So Dh suggests that we use Skype while we are up there so we can talk with him and dd from the hotel room. COOL! It sounded to good to be true (and you KNOW what they say about things that are too good to be true!!) So the first time it hooks up I am all excited to see Dh's cute face come up on my laptop MILES away from my home and see my daughter playing in the background. Ds talked to him and they said good night to each other..awwww..very cute. Next morning around 7:15am there is an odd ringing in the room. I go to look at the laptop and there is DH calling me on Skype. Aww too cute he misses me!! So we talk, say good morning and he sees ds in bed watching cartoons. Well my shine started to fade off Skype by the 10th Skype call when the scene went from me being right there in the camera to wave "HI" to an empty chair being the forefront for DH's convo's and hearing "hello? is anyone there?" ..uhhh yes dear someone IS here but I have already talked to you 15 times today. My heart was not growing any fonder even when I was away because it was like he was RIGHT there with me. We started to bicker on Skype and shoot looks back at each other.....that's when I made my final decision on Skype. Delete program from all existence for next year. I love my husband dearly but sometimes a little break is nice to bring some fondness back. I could have turned it off yes, but he was then phoning my cell phone to tell me to turn it on so he could talk to ds....He does mean well but I don't need to bicker 350 miles away in a hotel room with my Mom listening. We can do that in the same 5 foot radius in our own home thanks.

So I came home after another long day of music-less driving . The drive back really sucks because after the long drive we have to get in line to catch a Ferry over to the Island. Well there was an airshow that day and the Ferries were PACKED! We ended up on the 7pm Ferry and got home by 9pm. I threw my suitcase down, got the kids in bed and jumped into my own bed for a well deserved long sleep.

Well I started back to work that next day but only did 2 short days by myself of Hygiene as my Dentist is still on holidays until the 20th(tomorrow). Dh is on holidays until the 25th so we did a little thinking and decided to take a trip up island to stay 2 nights in a hotel and the kids could play on the beach. FUN! So I took ds to his soccer class Wednesday morning and headed home to surprise the kids with our little trip news. They were excited but I don't think really took it in that we were staying overnight and just thought we were going to the beach. So DH and I are packing up the truck and something happened that should have foreshadowed the entire trip for me in my mind. Dh dropped my wine carrier that had a bottle of wine and a bottle of Gin. The Gin bottle shattered to pieces in the holder and there was Gin everywhere on the ground and glass covered the cement. I could have clocked him right where he stood. I had visions of DH and I sitting on the deck having a Gin and Tonic and RELAXING while the kids watched some Tree House on TV (Canadian children's network) He had just literally shattered that dream all over our driveway. I had to suck it up and pull myself together for the trip's sake or it was going to have a very sour flavour. So off we went on our 2 hour journey to the hotel!

The drive up went great cause the kids both slept for 75% of it! YEAH I love those kind of road trips! We got into our room which over looked the ocean and it was breath taking!! We all got changed into our beach wear and headed down to the sand. The water was "bath water" warm and there were TONNES of little crabs everywhere for the kids to chase. The tide started to come in so after about 2 hours we headed back to change and get some dinner which turned out to be McDonald's (oh yeah). After dinner we went over to the local Arcade which was in the back of our hotel. They had bumper boats and we all got just SOAKED spraying each other. We played some games...that "roll the ball up into the hole" things and you win tickets to buy a plastic spider ring. Dh and ds played a quick game of air hockey that I think may have been fixed because Dh (a ruthless air hockey player) lost with NO points scored. Hmmm..lol

So we get ready for bed and the kids are all tucked in for the night. DH pops a sleeping pill because he thinks he could have some problems sleeping in a hotel with a restless ds sleeping with him...fine. So I initially fall asleep in the bed with dd. I awake about 2 hours later to Dh just SNORING like a drunk bear. I get up and grab his hand and say "you're snoring!" and he mumbles sorry and turns over. Two minutes later he starts up again....omg! I get up and go over and grab his arm and shake it....no response. Those sleeping pills are worth the money! So he senses something and goes back to sleep. Dd then starts to get restless because of all my excursions and starts to roll around. I try and go to sleep so she can get back to sleep. All of a sudden **THUD THUMP THUD** OMG dd has fallen OUT of the bed on the floor and banged her head on the bed table!! I say "OMG Carys!!!" and run around and pick her up and place her back in bed and kiss her head. She says nothing. DH says nothing. Ds says nothing. No one is awake but me it appears. WTF?? So I crawl back into bed and pull her closer to me and put a tonne of pillows on the floor. In between the continued snoring, hotel doors slamming, people talking LOUD in the hallways and paranoia of dd falling out of bed again, I managed to get about 3 hours sleep all told.

So we wake up at 6am with the sun blazing in the room. Looks like a nice day but it was to be VERY short lived. Within half an hour there was thunder and lightening that was putting on quite a show for the kids! We decided to bag the second night and head back home. I think I am done for family trips this Summer. Between breaking bottles and falling kids I will closet my suitcase for now.