When the race hoop-lah is all over, we’ll be on vacation in Vegas. In fact, we’ve already alerted our race volunteer staff that no matter what, we’re driving away from the park at 5:00 because we have an 8:00 flight on Sunday.
I’ve never flown on Spirit, and DTW has just opened a brand new terminal that Spirit flys out of, so hopefully things will go smoothly. If we get out of Addison on time, we should have plenty of breathing room for whatever may happen. Nick’s plan is to get to the airport early enough to allow for sitting in the bar and drinking a couple of beers before boarding. I’m looking forward to sitting listening to my audiobook while knitting sock #2 of the pair I was working on for my mom’s birthday (its only going to be 2 months late). I’m working on the “leg” part of the sock which requires no thinking what-so-ever and is just really mentally relaxing to work on. Its actually my favorite part about knitting socks – I sense really tall socks in my future 😉
I think we decied that we’re going to rent a car for the first couple of days of our Vegas trip. The swanky place where we’re staying has free valet parking, and cars are pretty cheap to rent in Vegas. I doubt we’ll get ot to Boulder City for the dirt demo on Monday, but on Tuesday we plan to head there and also visit the yummmy yummmy brewery in town that day. We’re thinking a convertible is in order for this trip, wouldn’t you agree?
I’m really looking forward to staying at the swanky condo for a week. I’m sure we’ll sit through the time-share presentation (again), thinking (again) that this is a great idea and it would make sense, since we go to Vegas every year anyway. And then, by the time we’re riding the plane home on Saturday we’ll come to our senses and realize that renting your vacation is really not that bad – and getting an additional mortgage for $20k+ is just not in our life plan. But, I have to say – it is very compelling when you get all the benefits of the Marriott vacation club on top of the wonderful Vegas condo.
In other news – Shania had a visit with the doctor yesterday to check the progress of her ears. He was really surprised to see how good she’s doing – the incision is healing up very well and there’s hardly any ‘debris’ from the ear infections (black goop that come out of her ear holes). She hasn’t had an accident in the house a single time since we brought her home last week which tells us that the antibiotics are working for the bladder infection (thank god – if not, it would have been another $300 in tests).
Oh .. and one more thing – my “local food fairy” brought us some Fat Tire from her Colorado galavants. Kristi and Erik took a 2 week vacation, driving out west and riding bikes. *JEALOUS* :D  Thanks Kristi, we cracked the 6pack last night and it was mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm (FYI – Kristi also brought is 2 dozen Jean Kay’s pasties from Marquette in August .. she’s the greatest).
Ok .. really one more thing – I just heard that our friend Ali will be in Vegas next week too. I haven’t seen Ali since she moved to Cali (she’s already since then moved to NY) so I hope we can run in to each other. Ali – look for the girl who looks like me, hanging out with the guy who looks like Nick 😉
