Vacation Log Day 1

  Can you really call this the first day of vacation?  On the  one hand, I don’t have to go to work today, but on the other I wouldn’t have had to anyway.  So is today vacation?  Sure, why not.

  So, Captain’s Log Vacation, Day 1.

  We started our trip today.  It was a cloudy and muggy day.  A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step (Or something like that).  Just how do you begin a story that is interesting to only yourself?  In trying to keep this from being a blog of someone’s photos from vacation that no one wants to see, I want to make it intersting…but it’s not.  Or It Snot.  However you say it.

  Anyway.  We started driving, and driving, and driving.  Actually it wasn’t that bad.  8 hours after starting we were in the big town of Lincoln Nebraska.  Home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers.  (BOOO, HISSSS!)  Talk about an uneventful drive and I liked it that way.  Only a few stops for potty breaks (We still have younger ones) and one gas and a couple of food excursions and that was it.  Boring.

  The highlight of the day was eating dinner at Hu Hot.  We’ve been waiting for this all year.  See I had Hu Hot when I visited our Omaha office over a year ago and loved it.  Last year when driving to Colorado I introduced the family and they too loved it.  (A little too much, we all got stomach aches from eating too quickly)  Hu Hot is not in Illinois so we had to wait a year until we could visit again.  It was worth it. 

  So what is Hu Hot?  Think of Mongolian BBQ on steroids (No Barry Bonds in sight).  You pile high a bowl of meat, seafood or veggies, add noodles and top it with any of a bunch of sauces. 

Brad liked the Teriaki, I was partial to the Thai Peanut sauce.  I can’t spell the sauce Kala had and Robyn was sans sauce.  Then give the whole concoction to the chefs.  They cook it in front of you on sort of a grill in the round. 

So cool and very tasty.  Then when you finish, you can go back for more.  That’s where we get into trouble.  It’s easy to think you can fit more in.  And did I say it was tasty?  Only one stomach ache this time between the four of us so I think we are learning.

   I think that’s enough for the first Log/Blog of our vaction that hasn’t started yet.  You may be asking yourself, “Do I really get the pleasure of reading this enthralling piece of literature for every day of their WHOLE vacation?”  My answer is NO.  Are you kidding?  My intention is to vacate, not stay on computers.  And you surely don’t want to read about nothing more than we woke up late, drank some coffee, took a nap and then went to bed.  That’s what I intend to do some days and while it will be tremendously pleasurable, I assure you reading about it won’t be riveting.  I’ll only Log/Blog when something interesting (At least to me) happens.  Lucky you.

  Before I forget, vacation stats:

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Book on CD while we drive) 2 chapters down
• Semi’s that honked - 8 (No, Kala wasn’t hanging her leg out the window, we would have got more if she did.)
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows (Walked by it at Barnes & Noble and couldn’t pass it by) Kala read 2 chapters in no time
• Hu Hot - 4 full tummies
• 5 Mad Libs
• So far we’ve forgotten - 1 Pair of warm up pants for Jon for when he runs in the mountians.  (May need that)

   I’ll leave you with a Mad Lib that we came up with:

An opera is a dramatic play with Pretty music, in which all the characters sing instead of Spitting.  The first opera was done in Italy in 1600.  In Milan, a bunch of Nurses got together and put on the first opera.  Everyone thought it was Lumpy.  Now operas are done in Rome, New York and even Hu Hot.  Famous operas are “Carmen,” “The Volleyball of Seville” and “Romeo and Robyn.”  Opera singers are either sopranos, contraltos, tenors, baritones or Crickets.  They are usually big and Sleepy, and when they finish singing, everyone shouts, “DUH!”  Italy has invented many wonderful Shoes, but personally, I like pizza better than opera.

  Courtesy of Robyn…

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