Miscellaneous

We're going on our 4th night in the hotel...it feels much longer.  It can be mildly entertaining being in 1 room, but mostly it's rather boring and slightly claustrophobic.  We're moving into a suite tomorrow.  Hopefully, that will improve sleeping arrangements.

Our household shipments are taking a bit longer than we had hoped.  We were wanting to get our express shipment this week.  It has our paintbrushes and drop cloths and edging tools.  We don't want to start painting the house without them...and why go buy more supplies when we have the ones we need/want arriving soon?  So we go to the house everyday.  We clean.  The house was already in great shape, but you know you want everything perfect...especially the fridge and the oven.

The kids are watching a lot of movies.  I mean a lot.  It's the best way to keep them out of the way and out of mischief (though I've already found crayon scribbles all over Mary's bedroom carpet).  Sigh.

Poor Dumas.  She doesn't know what's going on.  We box her up and fly her halfway across the world, stick her in the basement at Doug's parents house, drive her in the car 14 hours, stick her in another basement at my cousin's house, drive her in the car another 12 hours and drop her off in a house all by herself.  At least she has more room to run.  She's made herself quite at home on top of the cabinets in the kitchen.  I find her there everyday.

Luckily, we found a bounce house facility across the street from our hotel.  It's an indoor play place that has 11 different bounce houses, a toddler area and free wi-fi for the parents.  $8 for Mary and $4 for Adam for all day play.  Definitely worth it!

Tonight, we went to dinner and Mary kept eating my broccoli.  She said, "Can I have some broccoli with my butter?"  Ha,ha,ha.  She liked how I was smearing butter on my steamed broccoli.  Hey, who wouldn't?  After dinner, we went for a stroll in the shopping center and came across some Canadian Geese.  Mary said, "Wow, those are some big birds!"  Yes, they are.  It was a nice evening.

Tomorrow, we're hitting Busch Gardens.  Wish us luck.