Well, my poor neglected blog appears to need a facelift again! Hmmmmm! Well, I just got back from a trip from the Creation Museum with my family. Had a wonderful time. I don't know if we will ever again travel as 6 in our family, so I'm glad we had this special time together. My sister wanted to bring her boyfriend along and she was not allowed to. I like her boyfriend alot, but I'm glad he could not come along because I thought it was nice to do one last trip with just our 6 family members. Vernon hardly ever goes on trips with us anymore so this was fun that we went as a complete family.
I'd say it was the most relaxing family trip I've been on in years. Funny that I say that, because I was as miserable as can be. But it was relaxing in that everyone has finally become old enough to entertain themselves. Instead of getting bored and bickering and fighting, everyone recluded to their own little world. We were all prepared with things we like to do to keep our minds occupied. I can honestly say I was not bored at all during the driving. I used my MP3 alot and I had my computer along. I didn't even take time to play music games then. I have some really cool music games/lessons and I didn't even touch them:(:( I did take my scrapbooking stuff along though and I got 8 or 9 sides done. So that was worthwhile to me! I wrote emails even though I couldn't send them I wrote them awhile. I didn't even read any of the books I had along. I think maybe I should ban myself from scrapbooking this week and make it a point to read some books and do music lessons on the computer. Ha ha, we'll see how long that resolve lasts. I did take new interest in learning a song on the piano so I will continue that this week.
Now, for those of you who do not know why I was miserable...........I had the worst and longest sore throat I've had in my entire life! I used to rarely get sore throats. Only in the past maybe 5 years have I started getting them. But they have never been strep throat and never last longer than 2 days. Well, this one lasted 8 days and it was RAW! I could hardly swallow, it was so painful. I went to the doc the morning we were to leave and took a strep test. It was negative. So, $75 later I was on my way. How frustrated I was that I wasted that $75 but how was I to know? It hurt way beyond any sore throat I've ever had, and who wants to go on a trip not knowing if you have strep throat? So I had to deal with that the entire trip. Lots of stuffy/runny nose and coughing spells. Bleh! Usually it's the older folks with all their aches and pains that can't wait for their new body but I sure wanted a new one during this time! But, here I am at home and feeling alot better.
We started out Wednesday morning and came back in the wee hours of Saturday morning. We drove the 9 hours to Indiana to a motel Holiday Inn Express. Very nice place, I'm used to the Econo Lodge, Super 8 and Days Inn so this was luxurious for me! When we got there, Mom informed me that the 4 children were sleeping together and my parents had a room to themselves. That did not work out then because I didn't think it was nice to make Sarah sleep in the same bed and get so close to my cold and most of all because I had not brought an appropriate nightie along. If only Mom had told me ahead of time.............after living by myself for a few months now I do not have to have appropriate nighties on hand! Well, Sharon's here but we're both girls, and Sarah wouldn't have minded.........but this was maybe a godsend because I cannot abide to think of sleeping in the same room as my little brother. He's too bratty. My nose was stuffy and I had to blow it and cough alot and he would have either made fun of me or told me to "shut up" so it's nice Sarah and I were by ourselves.
Then we went to the museum on Thursday. I'd been there 2 years ago so this was familiar to me, but fun to see again. I'm not the brightest star in the sky when it comes to studying science, so it was a treat for me to just believe everything and not have to figure out what's true and what's not. I really enjoyed the grounds outside as well. We took some nice family pictures there. I wish all my friends could see that museum. Alot of my friends did, but there's alot that have not.
We left the museum to go to friends in Kentucky, 3 hours away. They are from a Team Mennonite church. We got there at 10pm and stayed up to talk til 11pm. Then we got up at 6:30 for breakfast and visited some more and did a little shopping locally. I found some beautiful mint green fabric. I don't wear any other shade green but this mint green was just perfect. I have not seen that print in that color around here so I feel like I got something different.
We left to come home around 11am. We had 12 hours plus all the potty stops and eating. Sigh! But I slept alot and it was relaxing.
I am glad I had off today. I really needed the extra sleep and time to do things. I mowed the lawn, it was beginning to look like a hayfield! Then I washed my car and chamoised it and swept it out and wiped the interior. Next I washed my hair and I've been relaxing on my butt for the last hour or two.
Tonight I am going to a mountain pie supper at the Ephrata dump. I am ready to see my friends again. They are going to sing around the campfire and I guess I'll go home then. I can't sing yet, my voice is still recuperating and it would be too hard on me to hear them and not help along. I know what would happen, I'd try to sing along and end up in a coughing fit and embarrass myself good and proper! So I'll just come home early. It's time I do that anyway! I am bad for staying out too late.
Sunday I am invited to a picnic lunch. I think I'll do that. Hopefully I won't sound so croaky til then! Some people manage to sound sexy when they have a hoarse voice, but not me!!!!!!!! I sound anything but cool!!!!!!! Sunday night I don't know yet what I am doing. Time will tell.
Oh, I wanted to mention that the friends we saw in KY did not have electricity or a phone. It was kind of cool, to rough it for a little! But they are the jolliest people around, I could learn alot from them!
Well, that's all for now!
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