Vacations, junk food and accidents.
Our vacation was awesome. I cried as soon as we walked on the boat, because the week leading up to our cruise had been so intensely stressful. Mexico was spectacular, Grand Cayman was pretty cool, the private island was perfect as always (twice!) and the days at sea were relaxing. I have no regrets about anything from our vacation, nothing I wished we had or had not done. It was all perfect. In fact, I think we spent exactly the amount of money I had set aside.
Except for the deposits we paid for the two cruises we booked onboard (both in 2009). I'm not counting the deposit for the one we are about to book: eastbound transatlantic from Port Canveral to Barcelona in 2010. SIX DAYS AT SEA. In a row.
It was good. I feel refresehd.
Since the cruise we have been trying to wean off the junk food, though we really did not go "cruise crazy" like most of the other people onboard. We didn't overstuff, and we ate lots of fruit and veggies. Yes, I still had chocolate souffle, and plenty of alcoholic beverages. But it could have been worse.
Friday night we were on the way to meet some friends at Epcot for more food and alcohol, when an SUV that was coming down an on-ramp lost control. It all happened in slow motion. We think her tire blew out, but it was hard to tell exactly what was going on, what with me yelling "OH MY GOD" over and over and Lionel swerving to miss both her tumbling car and the road sign she blew across the highway. In the end, no other cars were involved (thanks mostly to my husband's stellar handling of the Mini Cooper) and she walked away with a few small glass cuts.
I've never witnessed such an accident. I've seen fender benders and small crashes, and I've been in a four-car pile-up and an intersection (caused when the driver behind me did not see the line of cars stopped at a red light, and therefore stopped pretty much in my back seat), but I've never seen a car fly 20 feet into the air, land on it's side and proceed to roll over. It finally stopped on all four wheels, all windows shattered, and facing the opposite direction on the ramp. I don't even know how it started rolling BACK the way it came, because Lionel was too busy trying to stop our car to go and check on her, and I was dialing 911.
It took two drinks at Epcot to stop the shakes, which were still going strong an hour after the incident.
In other news, I finally saw the SNL VP debate sketch last night, and it cracked me up. Tina Fey is awesome.
That is all.
Except for the deposits we paid for the two cruises we booked onboard (both in 2009). I'm not counting the deposit for the one we are about to book: eastbound transatlantic from Port Canveral to Barcelona in 2010. SIX DAYS AT SEA. In a row.
It was good. I feel refresehd.
Since the cruise we have been trying to wean off the junk food, though we really did not go "cruise crazy" like most of the other people onboard. We didn't overstuff, and we ate lots of fruit and veggies. Yes, I still had chocolate souffle, and plenty of alcoholic beverages. But it could have been worse.
Friday night we were on the way to meet some friends at Epcot for more food and alcohol, when an SUV that was coming down an on-ramp lost control. It all happened in slow motion. We think her tire blew out, but it was hard to tell exactly what was going on, what with me yelling "OH MY GOD" over and over and Lionel swerving to miss both her tumbling car and the road sign she blew across the highway. In the end, no other cars were involved (thanks mostly to my husband's stellar handling of the Mini Cooper) and she walked away with a few small glass cuts.
I've never witnessed such an accident. I've seen fender benders and small crashes, and I've been in a four-car pile-up and an intersection (caused when the driver behind me did not see the line of cars stopped at a red light, and therefore stopped pretty much in my back seat), but I've never seen a car fly 20 feet into the air, land on it's side and proceed to roll over. It finally stopped on all four wheels, all windows shattered, and facing the opposite direction on the ramp. I don't even know how it started rolling BACK the way it came, because Lionel was too busy trying to stop our car to go and check on her, and I was dialing 911.
It took two drinks at Epcot to stop the shakes, which were still going strong an hour after the incident.
In other news, I finally saw the SNL VP debate sketch last night, and it cracked me up. Tina Fey is awesome.
That is all.