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Bullet list of my vacation. Pictures soon to follow.

• On Monday, flew to St. John's


• Checked into B&B


• Wandered downtown looking for food.


• Slept.


• Got up, got the rental car and drove to Cape Spear, which was gorgeous.


• On Wednesday, drove to the town of Dildo. Made a ton of dirty jokes.


• Went to Karen's stagette party.


• Got "Screeched In."


• Went back to the house to play dirty party games.


• Walked with Julia way out of our way looking for food that didn't exist.


• On Thursday, hiked up to Signal Hill.


• Hiked back down, exhausted and starving.


• Ate at my first vegetarian restaurant.


• Tried pad thai. Didn't like it. Switched around food so everyone enjoyed what they were eating, except for Jason.


• Went on a haunted tour of downtown St. John's


• On Friday, attended Karen's wedding, ate at Jungle Jim's, attended Karen's reception and had a terrific time. Actually got some dancing out of Jason.


• On Saturday, went on a whale watching tour. Saw whales, but was almost too seasick to enjoy it.


• Had my first poutine.


• Said goodbye to some awesome people.


• Checked out the George Street Festival.


• Did Karaoke, one song, Love Shack, then left.


• Said goodbye to more awesome people.


• Had a drink and listened to some live music with Jason.


• Got up to find our flight had been delayed and we would be missing our connection.


• Said goodbye to Karen and Steve


• Flew to Newark where we were told the next available flight to Memphis was not until the morning and the pnly flight that day was overbooked and so could not get standby.


• Got a hotel room in Jersey.


• Decided to make the best of it and took the train to New York.


• Walked from the World Trade Center site to Times Square


• Ate too much.


• Decided to pay the $60 bucks to visit Madame Tussaud's.


• Got stuck for 20 minutes in the glass elevator overlooking time's square.


• Searched for the train station.


• Waited 45 minutes for the train back to Newark.


• Slept a few hours.


• Finally boarded a delayed flight to Memphis.


• Came home and squeezed my dog to death because I missed him so much.

I'm exhausted and have to miss another night of work because of the delay. But this was an amazing trip.

Next up! Doing lots of laundry! Sorting through nine gigs of pictures and video!