National Lampoons (Libertys) Vacation

I wanted to post a quick recap of our vacation thus far. It's been quite interesting at this point and it's not over yet. We have no internet connection at our hotel...or at least nothing cheap. So, I'm using the internet at my sisters house. I'm hoping this is going to be one of those posts that will make you laugh. Honestly though, I'm not sure how I'll be able to convey the funniness of our vacation through the internet but I'll certainly try. One last thing before I get started, I will not be posting any pictures until I return to New Mexico since we plan to wait until we can download the pictures to our server at home.

So here I go...

We arrived last Wednesday night and luckily we didn't get caught in all of that mess from the massive snow storm that hit our area. Apparently, we just missed the storm (we left the same day most of it arrived). Although I would have loved to see all of that snow and get some really awesome pictures, I heard Los Alamos received over one foot of snow....maybe the next storm.

Anyhow, I arrived here sick. Jim and Jimmy both had the flu a weeks ago and apparently I finally came down with a pretty bad cold as a result of the flu that they had. I'm packed full of phlegm from the chest up and my family is certainly having a good time making fun of me. On Thursday I thought I was feeling descent enough to do most of the monuments at night which was really fun, but also really cold. For those of you that don't know, my sister drives a POS (piece of sh*t) and Mark had the bright idea of driving around the Pentagon parking lot so we could get a really good view of the Pentagon and, guess what? We got pulled over by the Pentagon Police because the car had a headlight that was burned out. I thought about asking the trooper if he would take a family photo with us, but he didn't seem like the type. Needless to say, we didn't get the picture...so Stefanie never got a ticket and we were able to move on our happy way.

It rained all day Friday and we had plans to tour the Capital Building in the morning and go to a Washington Caps game Friday night. By this time I'm completely drugged up on Tylenol and unfortunately the best way around DC is by foot. So, yes we walked all over DC in the rain. Luckily we were pretty much dressed for the occasion. By the time we made it to the Caps game we all looked liked wet St. Bernard's coming through the cat door from spending the entire day in the rain. For those of you that are interested, the Caps lost to New Jersey 4 to 1.

Saturday ended up being a bust...we were all to tired to do anything and I all I wanted to do was sleep. My fever was up and down all day....probably from spending the day in the rain.

Sunday...the main event...spend the day with Aunt Suzie. The day started out pretty descent, although Mom was late as always. We decided to pile all of us in the POS and drive up to Elkton (my home town). My sister has this tradition of stopping at the Maryland House every time she drives to Elkton. So we made the usual stop, we all got out of the car, did our own thing and met back at the car. Apparently, while most of us were gone my sister and Jim decided to "fix" the driver's side window that was broken. They didn't fix it at all...in fact they made it worse, the entire window came off of the track. So here we are, Christmas Eve, driving to Elkton in the POS with a window that is permanently down in the freezing cold weather. Things went great in Elkton, although we did feel like we had to cut our trip short so that we could leave at a descent hour and not freeze our butts off on the drive home. Did I mention that my sister drives a POS???

It was a cold ride home, so don't be surprised if the next blog reads that I have pneumonia....

Merry Christmas Everyone!!