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October 13, 2005
The Egg Rolls Are Not Laughing
Well, I think our time is finally up in Norfolk. And not a minute too soon either, I am afraid we were about to run out of museums. In the eight days we were here we saw:
1. Yorktown
2. Virginia Air and Space Museum
3. Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center
4. The Maritime Museum (where the have the Merrimac turret)
5. Virginia Beach (where we got extremely sandy and wet prompting an hour search for two pairs of pants to buy - harder than it sounds)
6. Cold Harbor battlefield
7. Gaines Mill battlefield (Junior Ranger patches earned by completing workbook after these two battlefields!)
8. Fort Monroe (where General Lee had a house and Jefferson Davis was imprisoned after the war)
9. Children's Museum of Virginia (Portsmouth)
10. Virginia Living Museum
11. U.S. Army Transportation Museum
Did you get tired just reading that? Jake says he is never going to another museum as long as he lives.
What about all the administrative checking out I had to do? I did about 2 hours total. It took me six business days. This has got to be the highest concentration of incompetency I have ever had to deal with. I literally checked in with them at 0730 am and then was sent off for the day. I wanted to scream but I also wanted to get out of here with my records intact, so I didn't. But I wanted to.
Oh, the title of the post? Today at lunch, Seth made a joke that Eli and I were laughing about but Seth did not think it was funny. So he was telling us not to laugh and then he threw out his arms wide and said "The eggrolls are not laughing". I have absolutely no idea what that means (we were eating at a Hardees) but it was DAMN funny. So we decided that Seth's Indian name would be "Egg Rolls Laughing". Jakes is "Dances With Girls" and Eli's is - ah shoot, I forgot Eli's Indian name. Oh well. We are actually coping very well - It is fantastic having two adults in the picture. Tomorrow (hopefully, if they don't botch things up) we will leave Norfolk sometime after lunch and head towards Illinois. We will be stopping at a couple of battlefields and other places as they come up and if no one has killed anyone else, we will drive straight through. If deaths are occuring, we will find a hotel for the night. Wish us luck!
Posted by DebC at October 13, 2005 2:35 AM