The vacation from the vacation day

Today was our vacation from the vacation. By which I mean we were still on vacation, but back from our trip. And tomorrow morning we leave again, this time on the motorcycle for Wing Ding in Fort Wayne, Indiana. So today we were on vacation from our vacation.

Slept in. Ok, at least Steve did. Max woke me up at 7 with some barking, I had forgotten to cover his box last night.

Had breakfast, did some unpacking, finished the laundry. Steve got up. Already 95 degrees at 11 a.m. Did I mention it's hot around here?

Steve went outside to water trees to try to revive them. The grass is pretty much a lost cause, it's brown and crunchy like most of the grass in the area. After he came in and took a shower to cool off, we were off on some errands.

First stop, Trinity United Methodist Church in Grand Rapids where I'd had my picture taken for our church directory. Our church's appointments were when we were in Kentucky, so this was the "make-up" location. Still, seems like they could have either sent my picture in the mail or sent it to my church. Oh well.

Then a stop at Macatawa Bank to confirm that Dad's Social Security check had been deposited so that Steve could drop off the payment for Heather Hills. Then we stopped at the HH office and made the payment. Then stopped by to see Dad. He seemed a bit more out of it than the last time we'd visited. We had a nice visit though we had to keep explaining things like where Scott and Eric were. So hard to see his memory going ever more each time we're there.

Next stop after the nursing home was a stop to get a sympathy card for the Houlton's in Iowa. Dad's cousin Helen died on Monday. After that, last stop - to the tailor shop to pick up my leather vest. Had not wanted to go through the hassle of sewing large patches on it (for the Goldwing club) so paid to have it done. Well worth $21! Will have to post pictures of this "motorcycle mama" from this coming weekend.

This evening just brought supper and packing for our next trip. Wing Ding is the annual "convention" of the Gold Wing Road Riders Association, to which we belong. The event travels to different areas of the country, and this year it is in Fort Wayne, Indiana, only 3 hours south of us. So there are six bikes going from our local riding club. Steve and I gave serious consideration to driving down in the car instead of the bike. It will be fiercely hot tomorrow, more so the farther south we travel. But we are leaving early and wearing our cooling vests, bringing plenty of fluids. We will be back on Sunday afternoon, and Eric is coming home for the weekend and watching Max.

Probably won't blog about the weekend until we're home as I'm not taking the computer, just my iPod, and it's pretty tough to blog on the iPod. But hopefully I'm getting back into the habit of blogging and will keep this up.