Jiggety-Jig

Oh vacation, how I miss you so! Here's a mini-retrospective of our trip in less-boring-than-text picture form:

We got a fantastic deal on the same hotel we stayed in for the first night of our honeymoon which meant that we could spend both evenings that we were there frolicking in the pool (all alone since its SO the off season) and then conking out in the jacuzzi). The hotel is right next to the chapel where we got married which made me very nostalgic (although, frankly, that's like shooting fish in a barrel), and look, its EVEN prettier in the wintertime.



We went to a super cool place called Rainforest Adventures where we were, once again, the only customers in the place. While there I met the most famous celebrity I've ever seen...its ZABU!! (You guys watch Zoboomafoo, right?) Zabu wanted to play and pose for the camera and he was completely awesome and I wanted to smuggle him home.


We also checked out a place called Wonderworks which bills itself as an 'amusement park for the mind'. They had lots of neat stuff, including a NASA space suit that you could step into:


They also had this Bed of Nails which Paul thought was a bit uncomfortable but I thought was like a massage it felt so good. Of course, I may be desperate for any sort of tension relief.


And finally, there was the Jurassic Boat Ride. One other couple was on this ride with us through pitch dark tunnels. These are some of the more passive looking dinosaurs, some others were kinda scary in the blackness. We quoted Jurassic Park like mega-dorks the whole time: 'Veggiesaurus, Lex, veggiesaurus!.

We did tons of other stuff too, including getting me a fantastic new pair of jeans that are FINALLY a size smaller (seriously, 30 pounds lost and only one pant size down?!), and watching a song-writers singing contest at the Hard Rock Cafe. It was great and I hate being home again where, alas, I am once again tense, angry and hungry.

Can we go on vacation every month now?

(Actually, that was going to be the end of my post right there but it reminds me; tomorrow Paul will have completed his 90 day probationary period at work (with no absences or lates, thank you very much) so he will get a raise pretty soon and we have health insurance and now he starts booking personal hours. For every month worked he gets a certain amount (and its a lot, yay) of personal hours which he can then use for sick days or call-it-an-early day days or vacation. He can even just cash them out and take the money if he wants to. His goal, although I would prefer he take some days in the summer too, is to bank most of them and then split them up at Christmas - 1/2 in days off to go to Canada and 1/2 cashed in so we can buy the tickets to get to Canada. )