One too many adventures....
Yesterday started off well enough - we went with a friend to Adventure Aquarium and had a good time. It was very tiring, even though I was in a wheelchair for most of the experience. I still don't have the strength back from my prolonged illness, and it was better just to accept defeat ahead of time instead of becoming completely exhausted and collapsing halfway through. For those who are planning on going there - please do yourself a favor and buy your tickets online. The line for buying at the tickets at the window stretched around the block. The Will Call line for picking up tickets purchased online had five people in it. No joke. Fortunately our friend had her work laptop with her, which has one of those aircard thingys - so we were able to use it to order tickets right there in the parking lot. We even got a special deal where we got meal vouchers included. Then we sauntered on up to the Will Call line and got in right away.
The aquarium's nice - I haven't been there since my kids were fairly small. They no longer have a package deal where you can go to the battleship/children's garden/aquarium all at once - now they just offer a package for battleship and aquarium or aquarium and ride the ducks. Not that we wanted to do a package deal right then anyhow, but it's a shame because my kids always liked the children's garden when they were small and now they don't package with the aquarium at all so even though it's right there, it's a separate admission.
They have some beautiful fish at the aquarium- and other animals too. We got to see hippos, penguins, and birds in addition to the sea creatures. You can take a virtual tour on their website if you want to see.
We have some pictures up here - still have to put them in a proper album.
Bad news was that when we got home, we got a call from the police that they had arrested my son. It's an incredibly long and stupid story as to what he was actually doing, but it was definitely not what I needed to come home to deal with. After a very long and annoying station visit, we finally got to go home. Then they called me again not an hour later, saying they had Steve's bike and I had to come and pick that up! I was thoroughly exhausted at that point, and was fortunately able to get them to drop it off at the house instead. So his bike got a police escort home, heh. That's really the only amusing part of that whole story - and now I'm going to have to go to court with him at some point in the future. Hopefully they will give him some community service and 'stop being stupid' advice, and not fine him because since he is a minor guess who that means has to pay the fine for his stupidity? God I can't wait until he's 18. 13 months to go on that, and yes I am looking forward to the day when he, like his sisters, is responsible for his own dumb actions and I no longer have to be.
Today I was still relatively exhausted, but I needed some things from the store. I wound up losing my grip on a gallon of milk, which I dropped onto the floor - very embarrassing. Unsurprisingly, my blood pressure is up again, new medication or no - and my anxiety levels are through the roof as well. Am spending the rest of today resting, and hopefully I will get no phone calls telling me any more bad news.
Oh, and joy - there is some sort of foul smell in my bedroom here (likely a lost stinky sock that didn't make it into the laundry, or some other such) that I can't quite locate. And I'm way too tired to tear the place apart and track it down. Febreze it is.
The aquarium's nice - I haven't been there since my kids were fairly small. They no longer have a package deal where you can go to the battleship/children's garden/aquarium all at once - now they just offer a package for battleship and aquarium or aquarium and ride the ducks. Not that we wanted to do a package deal right then anyhow, but it's a shame because my kids always liked the children's garden when they were small and now they don't package with the aquarium at all so even though it's right there, it's a separate admission.
They have some beautiful fish at the aquarium- and other animals too. We got to see hippos, penguins, and birds in addition to the sea creatures. You can take a virtual tour on their website if you want to see.
We have some pictures up here - still have to put them in a proper album.
Bad news was that when we got home, we got a call from the police that they had arrested my son. It's an incredibly long and stupid story as to what he was actually doing, but it was definitely not what I needed to come home to deal with. After a very long and annoying station visit, we finally got to go home. Then they called me again not an hour later, saying they had Steve's bike and I had to come and pick that up! I was thoroughly exhausted at that point, and was fortunately able to get them to drop it off at the house instead. So his bike got a police escort home, heh. That's really the only amusing part of that whole story - and now I'm going to have to go to court with him at some point in the future. Hopefully they will give him some community service and 'stop being stupid' advice, and not fine him because since he is a minor guess who that means has to pay the fine for his stupidity? God I can't wait until he's 18. 13 months to go on that, and yes I am looking forward to the day when he, like his sisters, is responsible for his own dumb actions and I no longer have to be.
Today I was still relatively exhausted, but I needed some things from the store. I wound up losing my grip on a gallon of milk, which I dropped onto the floor - very embarrassing. Unsurprisingly, my blood pressure is up again, new medication or no - and my anxiety levels are through the roof as well. Am spending the rest of today resting, and hopefully I will get no phone calls telling me any more bad news.
Oh, and joy - there is some sort of foul smell in my bedroom here (likely a lost stinky sock that didn't make it into the laundry, or some other such) that I can't quite locate. And I'm way too tired to tear the place apart and track it down. Febreze it is.