Saturday, July 07, 2007
Fun was had!
OK, I got sucked into the vacation vortex there--the getting ready for, the going to and then the recovery from. And the actual away from home part was only 36 hours total!
It was an intense 36 hours, though, full of wonder and co-incidence and unlikely meet-ups. Maybe that was because we accidentally got a for reals Good Early Start (I always thought those were mythical!), driving off from the Daylight Donut at 7 am.
There was a booksale at the library in Brush. While we were poking around, a guy came in and asked who had the blueish purple Explorer with all the bumper stickers. Usually that means trouble of SOME kind, but I owned up to it. "The one with the bumper sticker that says, 'End this war'?" he asked, just to be sure. Yep, that would be my Dreamcloud.
It turned out he had been to Vietnam twice himself, and his son is in Baghdad right now. And he wanted to know where he could get some like that himself. I gave him MoveOn.org's name and we chatted off and on all the rest of the sale.
As you may recall, we had been planning a trip up to Brush some time about the beginning of July so we could pick up Mike's new kitten, which his big sister offered him after we lost poor Souvenir. The specific date was chosen when the clone found out that the Remus Lupins (not to be confused with Remus and the Lupins, a TOTALLY different wizband) were going to be playing at a library in Greeley, which is only about an hour away from Brush.
It turned out to be the Farr Library sort of out on the edge of town (Farr out!! Arr-arr!), which required us to seek out directions.
Because of past unhappy experiences hinted at in the above cartoon, we got us some GOOGLE MAP directions, which were spang on the money. We drove right to it!
It was a fun concert in a really well-designed outdoor garden venue. I don't have the picpage done yet, but here is a small one with the band's slogan. (When I get it done, I'll add the link to a future post.)
There was a door prize drawing at the end of the concert. One of Mike's strange powers is that he is a door prize magnet, and this time he won a book. Going with the vague connections theme, it was a compilation from MuggleNet of predictions about what will happen in Harry Potter 7. Plus a nice bookmark. Not the lootiest of loot, we thought, but hey, a prize is a prize.
Then a little girl came up and earnestly inquired as to whether we would like to swap prizes with her. She REEEEELY wanted our book, but had instead won...the used-up drumhead signed by the band! So we made the trade, and everyone was happy. Except Mike, who had taken a fancy to the bookmark. But we promised him an alternate treat of equal or greater value, and that left him happy too.
The rest of Tuesday was a blur of driving back to Brush, meeting Mike's future kitty and having a nice family visit, then falling into much needed slumber.
More on next rock!
It was an intense 36 hours, though, full of wonder and co-incidence and unlikely meet-ups. Maybe that was because we accidentally got a for reals Good Early Start (I always thought those were mythical!), driving off from the Daylight Donut at 7 am.
There was a booksale at the library in Brush. While we were poking around, a guy came in and asked who had the blueish purple Explorer with all the bumper stickers. Usually that means trouble of SOME kind, but I owned up to it. "The one with the bumper sticker that says, 'End this war'?" he asked, just to be sure. Yep, that would be my Dreamcloud.
It turned out he had been to Vietnam twice himself, and his son is in Baghdad right now. And he wanted to know where he could get some like that himself. I gave him MoveOn.org's name and we chatted off and on all the rest of the sale.
As you may recall, we had been planning a trip up to Brush some time about the beginning of July so we could pick up Mike's new kitten, which his big sister offered him after we lost poor Souvenir. The specific date was chosen when the clone found out that the Remus Lupins (not to be confused with Remus and the Lupins, a TOTALLY different wizband) were going to be playing at a library in Greeley, which is only about an hour away from Brush.
It turned out to be the Farr Library sort of out on the edge of town (Farr out!! Arr-arr!), which required us to seek out directions.
Because of past unhappy experiences hinted at in the above cartoon, we got us some GOOGLE MAP directions, which were spang on the money. We drove right to it!
It was a fun concert in a really well-designed outdoor garden venue. I don't have the picpage done yet, but here is a small one with the band's slogan. (When I get it done, I'll add the link to a future post.)
There was a door prize drawing at the end of the concert. One of Mike's strange powers is that he is a door prize magnet, and this time he won a book. Going with the vague connections theme, it was a compilation from MuggleNet of predictions about what will happen in Harry Potter 7. Plus a nice bookmark. Not the lootiest of loot, we thought, but hey, a prize is a prize.
Then a little girl came up and earnestly inquired as to whether we would like to swap prizes with her. She REEEEELY wanted our book, but had instead won...the used-up drumhead signed by the band! So we made the trade, and everyone was happy. Except Mike, who had taken a fancy to the bookmark. But we promised him an alternate treat of equal or greater value, and that left him happy too.
The rest of Tuesday was a blur of driving back to Brush, meeting Mike's future kitty and having a nice family visit, then falling into much needed slumber.
More on next rock!
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