I’m at the aeroport waiting to get on an aeroplane to go to New York City! Have you ever been there?
Cool Dad is hanging out in an undisclosed location this week, desperately searching for The Internet. It’s been a rough 48 hours for him so far. So, no AWSC chat tonight, but he sends his regards. In the meantime, he’s doing the thing he’s there to do–electric guitaring about the place.
What is the longest amount of time you’ve gone without the internet in the past few years? Did you find that the break was good for you?
The Hambricks requested some of our family photos from Easter. You know, I don’t seem to be able to find them! Gosh! But what we do have are some vacation photos to try to make up for it:
Here’s when we went to Egypt. It was a lot of work to pull this one off. I think my back still hurts from that climb! Unfortunately, I didn’t notice the ancient curse that translates to English as “Cursed is he who rides on the back of the Great Sphinx.” When we got home, he poo-stained our favorite Pooh PJs.
Here’s when we went to New York City. The boy has a shirt with a bulldozer on it, so he got really excited when we passed a construction site. The ironworkers were kind enough to let him pose for this fun shot.
Here’s when we went to a rock band concert. The lead guitarist was nice enough to let the boy be his amp tech for the evening. Don’t worry – the boy’s wearing in-ear monitors, so his hearing was safe!
Here’s when we went to the South Pacific. We got turned around while exploring an island, but these nice people helped us find our tour boat again. Some of them even joined us, but we only had room for 6.
If you already haven’t guessed it, April Fools! We were just kidding — Cool Baby wasn’t really the amp tech. He’s just a baby! He was just crawling around up there for fun.
(really, photos: Michael Sze, Paul Keleher, tammylo)
I’m a prideful dork. Quick evidence:
I’ve never dry cleaned anything before. After many wearings, I finally took in my one nice pair of pants. I checked the pockets before handing them over to the nice lady. One back pocket: a piece of paper.
I made witty banter about how I didn’t want to leave anything in the pockets, like money. Then I reached in the other back pocket and pulled out a €5 bill (ooo… look at me with the euro symbol). Apparently, I last wore these pants in Germany. When I pulled out that €5 (i love how that looks), a feeling of pride washed over me [-5 cool points], like
[snooty voice]
Oooh… excuse me. I appear to have found a 5-euro banknote from our last jaunt to the Old World… oh ho ho ho ho! I guess I’ll just have Jeeves throw it on the pile!
[/snooty voice]
On my way out, I realized how stupid it was to feel pride for showing someone that we went to Europe. Lord, please forgive me for my pride and inflated sense of self-worth from blessings you’ve bestowed upon us. That is certainly uncool.
(photo: swperman)
The Christmas trip is in our rearview mirror. Some notes:
- On our first leg, CM and I started talking about blogs and things we can post about. She then commented that we’re exhibiting the defining symptom of computer nerdness: talking about the computer when you’re not on the computer. [-20 cool points]
- We knew this already, but it was fun to see it in action: God uses the little guy to bring joy and love to our families. They had a lot of fun with him. We pray that God uses him more and more as his life goes on.
- The above can be said also about the Wii, but to a far lesser extent.
- Our little Japanese car tried its best, but was unable to fit our luggage and Christmas gifts from two families. CM’s family will deliver our gifts on their next visit. Here’s what we brought home. (Not pictured: car seat, stroller frame, hurricane candle thingy)
In all, it was a very fun Christmas and the drives weren’t bad at all. He slept most of the time and we sang the praises of the Internet. I think I’m learning the answer to the title of our blog.
