Today was my last day of work for 2008! In fact, I received a nice bonus this morning when Naomi's school was closed due to the snow, which meant that I had no reason to drive into work and so spent the morning at home on a conference call to plan January's activities. As a result, we were able to get away a little earlier than planned for our first driving leg.
The destination was Strasburg, Virginia, a small place in the northwest corner of the state, on the way to our real first stop of Charlotte, North Carolina. The kids were quite excited about the hotel pool which I was talking up for the whole 5 hour drive. So when we got there and found that the pool was being renovated, it was quite disappointing. However, they took it quite well and are now happily playing with their modeling clay. There is virtually nobody else staying here from what we can tell. There are no cars outside and the place is completely silent. I guess we should not be surprised considering how far from civilization we actually are. Tonight we plan to watch some Babylon 5 movies and enjoy the quiet hotel, really living it up!
I am sure I mentioned it to her before but I think it just dawned on Mindy that going via Charlotte for me to see AC/DC tomorrow night is adding another two hours of driving to our trip. Hopefully the kids continue to travel well and the pool is in operation at our next stop or I might cop some grief about this later on. If things don't go well, I think I will still be OK - I will be at the show tomorrow night and should be pretty much deaf all day on Friday - a nice defence against a possible ear bashing! :-)
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