No Foolin' - We’re Still Here

Written Monday, April 3,2006 @8:55am (Central Daylight Time)

When we made our plans and left for this trip we never once dreamed we’d still be away from home. We had intended on spending a week, maybe two, here. Given that we spent a week sick, were three days late leaving for the trip, and the Texas Branch having their busy work weeks (we want to get in as much time with them as possible since were not sure when we’ll be seeing them again) we decided to get an extension on our time away. I can’t remember if I blahged about speaking with Lil Bro’s new social worker a little over a week ago. If I did please excuse the repeat. I asked for permission to extend our trip and she said it shouldn’t be a problem. So instead of getting home this Wednesday (our original “longest expected” date of our arrival) we have some more time.

This weekend was hot and humid. Critters are already coming out. Big Daddy and all of the kids found a scorpion hiding beneath a rock on Friday. It was probably about an inch and a half in length. They caught it in a jar, observed it, then disposed of it. I wasn’t too comfortable about walking to and from the RV in the dark anymore without a flashlight. On Saturday we found out about a family down near San Antonio who found a coral snake in their backyard. This family has only been here for three months and are from Oregon so imagine their surprise when they realized that the husband walked by, in flip flops, this deadly snake! Apparently, this is the second of this kind to be seen in fourteen years. All I can say is “yuck yuck yuck!!!!” Blech! I don’t care much for bugs as it is and I’m definitely not fond of critters who can kill.

We were all well enough to get meet with the Texas Branch’s church family. After the weekly potluck we went to Costco to get the tire with the nail in it replaced. We walked around Costco for nearly two long hours waiting for the the tires on the vehicles to rotated, etc. (Costco isn’t very close to here so we had to do it while closer to town).

Yesterday afternoon our air conditioning stopped working in the RV (while Lil Sis was taking a nap so she was drenched when we got her up) so Big Daddy has to figure out what’s wrong with it. It kept tripping the circut breaker. We hope he can get that figured out because it is really hot here these last few days. If it continues to be hot for our journey home I’m not sure what we’ll do because it’s like a green house in here which would be bad for the health of the kids and dog. Also, we won’t be able to go down to Houston if we can’t figure out the AC because we won’t be able to leave our dog in the RV while we see the Space Center (the humidity is even worse down there than it is here).

Well the natives are getting restless. I hope I caught you all up.

Over and Out- Lil' Mama