May 23
Two weeks ago, we traveled to Indiana for my brother-in-law’s wedding. We had a great trip out (about 10.5 hours or so), and the wedding was a great time. I learned a couple of things about Indiana during the weekend, and I thought I’d share them here.
- At McDonald’s in Indiana, you can rent new movies. No, really, you can. The service is called Red Box which I’ve never seen before, but it was pretty cool.
- At said Indiana McDonald’s employees are allowed to wear iPods (with the ear buds plugged in) while they wait on you.
- In the town we visited, they had no idea what a sheet pizza is. What a shame.
- White Castle hamburgers are disgusting, or at least the little ones that come in the Crave Cases are.
Those were just a few of the things I learned/noticed about Indiana during our trip.
Pictures to follow.
Jul 25
So, we made it back safe and sound from vacation. Now the name of the game is, “Catch Up.”
The beach was amazing. The weather was great every day except for a little bit on Friday, our last full day at the beach. Can’t complain about that.
I’m so glad my parents aren’t the kind of people who have to have a full itinerary when they go on vacation, not that there’s anything wrong with that, all you planners out there. Our daily routine consisted of waking up, checking email on the Blackberry, hitting the beach around 10:00 AM and staying there usually until around 5:00 PM or so. I finished two Ted Dekker novels, which was a pretty good accomplishment for me. We walked the boardwalk daily, ate way too much good food (Thrasher’s fries, shaved ice, pizza, you name it), and just had a great time together as a family. We even visited a Ripley’s Believe It or Not museum (more on that in a later post).
The catching up refers mostly to work. A lot goes on when you don’t check in for an entire week, but I’m getting pretty well caught up at this point.
Stay tuned for my “Top 10 Things I Learned at the Beach” post.