We will be off on another adventure in the morning with a road trip to Billings. From there we fly to Orlando on Friday morning and spend almost two weeks at Daytona Beach. I'm not the best traveler in that I hate packing and I get a little anxious about the details when we're going somewhere new. We've never been to Florida and M has never seen the Atlantic Ocean.
M was packed and ready on Sunday night. I finally started yesterday, but after looking at the weather forecast I'm rethinking it. I'm not sure it's going to be shorts weather much of the time. Oh well, if it's over 50 I will be in my flip-flops. And, my back brace is not making the trip!
We have plans to spend six days at the Daytona Speedway and want to spend a day at the space center. Many people are incredulous that I will go to the track that many days. I've heard that there is so much to see and do there, and I am totally into the whole NASCAR thing that I think it will be a blast. I also always say that it is my husband's vacation and he's nice enough to take me along. It is kind of cool that the Sprint Unlimited race (formerly the Bud Shootout) will be on my birthday and Dale Jr. will be making an appearance at the Fan Zone. That's a good way to spend my birthday.
The past couple of days I have been working on last minute details--getting my nails done, paying bills, doing laundry. I am also cleaning my house although I'm not sure why since R and our nephew will be here taking care of the cow chores and the dog so I'm pretty sure it won't be clean when I get back. We're so lucky to have the boys to take care of things especially since M's brother and his wife are headed to Jamaica. We're all trying to get our vacations in before the spring craziness begins (J and K just got home from Vegas).
Back to my chores............
Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Wednesday, February 6, 2013
Road Trip II
We took off for a few days on a slightly longer road trip. This time we went to Rapid City, SD to see M's sister and family and R and go to the stock show. M's dad is temporarily (we hope) in the local nursing home so that they could get his meds regulated and so M's mom could get a little rest. She decided to go with us to have a little break from things.
We left here on Thursday after cow chores. We were up early (before the sun) and as we were pulling into the cow yard the thermometer on the pickup said -28. Yes, a bit nippy. Of course, things don't want to work properly when it's that cold so we had a few glitches in the usual flow of things, but got the feeding done and picked up M's mom, stopped to see his dad and were off. We didn't have to get too far south for the temp to rise considerably. At least we had bare, dry roads all the way.
On Friday we spent the day at the stock show with R, our nephew and a friend. M's sister and mom met us there for lunch, and we continued looking at the exhibits. M loves the stock show. I've had enough after about ten minutes, but I was a good sport, as always. I do enjoy looking at the cattle all clean and fluffed up. I'm always wondering how my heifers would look if they were clean and fluffy. A couple more friends caught up with us as well as our brother-in-law and we all went out to supper and then to the rodeo. It's not quite like the rodeos we have around here. Very professional and fast moving. We saw Trevor Brazile who is something like a 10-time all-around champion. Pretty impressive. We also saw Clay Tryan whose grandfather still lives in our area. There was some good stock and good rides.
Saturday M and I, R, our nephew and two friends headed to Deadwood to watch snocross racing. We hadn't been to a snocross race since J quit racing in 2006. It brought back a lot of memories. Those really were good family times, and we miss them. M really wanted to be back in the pits and on the staging line. There are a few people left in the circuit that we knew or J raced against. We couldn't possibly be in Deadwood without going to the prime rib and crab legs buffet at the Silverado. It was something we did every time we were there. The boys always tried to set a record of how many crab legs they could eat. R had made reservations at a nice new hotel with a casino, of course, so some money was thrown down the drain. I don't think anyone won big.
On the way to Deadwood R took us to the volunteer fire department that he's affiliated with. It was pretty impressive--a little more high tech than the Richland fire department!
We left M's mom at his sister's house so she could see her granddaughter and great granddaughter and do a little shopping while we were in Deadwood. They met us on Sunday morning and we headed home. There was some snow and wind while we were gone but the temperature had gone up into the 30s. It's always so amazing how there can be a 60-degree temperature change in a day.
Now we are busy gearing up for our next big trip......Daytona, here we come!!!
We left here on Thursday after cow chores. We were up early (before the sun) and as we were pulling into the cow yard the thermometer on the pickup said -28. Yes, a bit nippy. Of course, things don't want to work properly when it's that cold so we had a few glitches in the usual flow of things, but got the feeding done and picked up M's mom, stopped to see his dad and were off. We didn't have to get too far south for the temp to rise considerably. At least we had bare, dry roads all the way.
On Friday we spent the day at the stock show with R, our nephew and a friend. M's sister and mom met us there for lunch, and we continued looking at the exhibits. M loves the stock show. I've had enough after about ten minutes, but I was a good sport, as always. I do enjoy looking at the cattle all clean and fluffed up. I'm always wondering how my heifers would look if they were clean and fluffy. A couple more friends caught up with us as well as our brother-in-law and we all went out to supper and then to the rodeo. It's not quite like the rodeos we have around here. Very professional and fast moving. We saw Trevor Brazile who is something like a 10-time all-around champion. Pretty impressive. We also saw Clay Tryan whose grandfather still lives in our area. There was some good stock and good rides.
Saturday M and I, R, our nephew and two friends headed to Deadwood to watch snocross racing. We hadn't been to a snocross race since J quit racing in 2006. It brought back a lot of memories. Those really were good family times, and we miss them. M really wanted to be back in the pits and on the staging line. There are a few people left in the circuit that we knew or J raced against. We couldn't possibly be in Deadwood without going to the prime rib and crab legs buffet at the Silverado. It was something we did every time we were there. The boys always tried to set a record of how many crab legs they could eat. R had made reservations at a nice new hotel with a casino, of course, so some money was thrown down the drain. I don't think anyone won big.
On the way to Deadwood R took us to the volunteer fire department that he's affiliated with. It was pretty impressive--a little more high tech than the Richland fire department!
We left M's mom at his sister's house so she could see her granddaughter and great granddaughter and do a little shopping while we were in Deadwood. They met us on Sunday morning and we headed home. There was some snow and wind while we were gone but the temperature had gone up into the 30s. It's always so amazing how there can be a 60-degree temperature change in a day.
Now we are busy gearing up for our next big trip......Daytona, here we come!!!
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