oh canada

i went on vacation with the family (minus bill of course, he never goes any where with us). dylan had a great time and we all had a blast at marine land. the wax museum and ripley's believe or not were a lot of fun. we didn't end up on the maid of the mist, that line was way too long and i definitely didn't want to wait and wait and wait for it. instead we took in some sights, went to clifton hills and marine land. we went up to the revolving restaurant, but well...i promised never to speak of that again and won't relive it here. let's just say we got a free ride on what dylan was calling "the bus" to the top and we probably should have paid. meanwhile, the whales and dolphins, seals, sealion and walrus were awesome. I got a lot of great pics and will be scrapbooking soon (i have a paper due this week and need to get working on it tomorrow). the hotel was pretty nice, but i was a bit of a cheapskate and parked the car myself rather than use the valet, i'm sorry, but really i prefer to have my keys and know where the car is and all that. the car was a cute little nissan versa and i really liked driving it. except that i had the driving duties for the entire trip, and sometimes it is nice to just be the passenger. at the canadian border i had to explain that dylan didn't have a dad,i so hate that. if only those people knew how hard america made it to get a passport for a kid without both parents (except that dylan doesn't have a father listed on his birth cert. anyway) they would have just accepted the damn passports without asking him who lived in our house, and then mistaking him saying "my cat" for "my dad". but whatevs. the border patrol coming back to america was very friendly and nice even joking with us and telling dylan he had to take the funny hat dyl bought as a souvenit that was red and white and said canada on it cuz he was back in the US and needed to show his patriotism. it was cute. meanwhile everything was crazy expensive and we didn't do half the stuff we could have done. regardless it was a blast. when i got home i realized i had a text from kelly (and one from her husband) that she had her baby so i will miss her while she is on maternity leave. maybe i will go visit her and bring her some flowers or something. and now it is back to the routine. i dread going back to work, hope i didn't get a million voicemails and a ton of paperwork dumped into my mailbox. maybe i should run back to canada.