What a day...
Dec. 3rd, 2011 04:35 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j_v_lynchGentle Readers,
I am currently lying on a king sized bed in the guest room of a castle just outside of Pittsburgh. The room is bigger than my kitchen and dining room put together. It's really a little overwhelming.
The whole day has been a little overwhelming. It started off with a nice morning with Lydia including a bit of reading and a driving her to school. We also got to talk a little bit about her being anxious about not knowing that many people at her school.
I got home and got most of my stuff packed for my trip and was just getting ready to mellow out when I remembered I had better get my passport packed.
It wasn't where it was supposed to be.
Cortejo and I spent at least 2 hours searching for the damn thing looking in more and more improbable places until we had torn apart most of the house looking for it. Finally she has the brilliant idea that it could have gotten jammed out of the drawer and so I look and find it under the waffle maker.
Five minutes later my ride arrives.
We have a sleety drive down to the border where we get pulled over and get to wait for a half our while homeland security looks up the event on the website (probably to make sure that I'm not getting paid and taking jobs away from americans).
About an hour or so later I have a little freak out when we stop for gas because my wallet is not in my pocket. I worry that I left it at the walmart in brockville but realize (after freaking out) that I had it when we crossed the border and search and discover that it has fallen out of my pocket and under my seat.
The next difficulty is trying to find something to eat in the wasteland between Rochester and Syracuse that isn't fast food. We ended up at the Pasta Grill which wasn't bad.
We continue on, eventually stopping for gas. There is a great deal of difficulty due to the canadian nature of my credit cards.
Finally we make it to our hosts castle. It's really big and awesome and sadly too late to get the tour.
So, I'm going to go to sleep so I can get the tour bright and early in the morning. Good night all.
I am currently lying on a king sized bed in the guest room of a castle just outside of Pittsburgh. The room is bigger than my kitchen and dining room put together. It's really a little overwhelming.
The whole day has been a little overwhelming. It started off with a nice morning with Lydia including a bit of reading and a driving her to school. We also got to talk a little bit about her being anxious about not knowing that many people at her school.
I got home and got most of my stuff packed for my trip and was just getting ready to mellow out when I remembered I had better get my passport packed.
It wasn't where it was supposed to be.
Cortejo and I spent at least 2 hours searching for the damn thing looking in more and more improbable places until we had torn apart most of the house looking for it. Finally she has the brilliant idea that it could have gotten jammed out of the drawer and so I look and find it under the waffle maker.
Five minutes later my ride arrives.
We have a sleety drive down to the border where we get pulled over and get to wait for a half our while homeland security looks up the event on the website (probably to make sure that I'm not getting paid and taking jobs away from americans).
About an hour or so later I have a little freak out when we stop for gas because my wallet is not in my pocket. I worry that I left it at the walmart in brockville but realize (after freaking out) that I had it when we crossed the border and search and discover that it has fallen out of my pocket and under my seat.
The next difficulty is trying to find something to eat in the wasteland between Rochester and Syracuse that isn't fast food. We ended up at the Pasta Grill which wasn't bad.
We continue on, eventually stopping for gas. There is a great deal of difficulty due to the canadian nature of my credit cards.
Finally we make it to our hosts castle. It's really big and awesome and sadly too late to get the tour.
So, I'm going to go to sleep so I can get the tour bright and early in the morning. Good night all.
