From May 27th....

What a week we had, it culminated in a huge weekend for me. Girls weekend for me and boys weekend for Bruce and the boys. The week itself was fairly quiet. Bruce spent most of the week doing angels to get an order out, which was tiring for everyone. I worked long hours again this week. A couple of full days along with parent helping 2 mornings then more angels at night, it turned into a really busy week for all of us. Nothing out of the ordinary happened this week. It was truly a workweek for all of us. Even the kids got into the act, which was nice, we all had a little production line going a couple of nights. All of us working and chatting, it was fun in a sweatshop sort of way. The weather has been gorgeous, as you would expect, a couple of overcast days, which are still at least warm there is just no sun. It’s definitely hotting up. Our fun stuff started on Friday. I had a deadline on Friday and Paula was out not well and I sent Andrea home at lunchtime sick. I finished up around 3.00pm, came home and chatted with Mum, Raels and Melissa on the web. We were out of the house to the ice cream social at school. It was at lot cooler that last years 100F+ temp. We didn’t win the basket like last year but it was a good time. Jamieson played on the bounce castles and Conner tried to sink his new principal on the dunking machine. He hit the target just not hard enough. We got home at about 8.30 and I got online to start putting pics on the new Korostin blog, which took a little longer to download than I thought, as you can imagine the mood wasn’t that great. It finally worked and I started the blog around 11.30 gggrrr. 3.45am I fell into bed. Bruce woke me up at 8.00 and Paula arrived around 8.45 with the convertible. I finally packed and we hit the road around 9.30, then decided to head to Reno (to the sun) the coast was going to be cloudy and cooler so that wasn’t going to work for us. Off we went up the freeway, with ALL the wind blowing in and around our hair, it’s not good for long hair, in the end my hair was completely pulled back and out of the way not like the movies at all. We made a stop at a place called Donna Lake there is a whole story about them, which I won’t tell you all about now, it’s interesting but that’s for another time. I called home to tell Bruce where we were actually going and found that they had some real run garage saleing and got some really good stuff including Jamieson’s purchase of a 3 ft stuffed Donkey Kong. Paula laughed over that one. Conner found a second hand iMac that he decided he wanted for his birthday so that’ s that done. Bruce said it was a great machine and has all the arty stuff on it for Conner’s projects and all that stuff he’s doing now. We decided to take the scenic route and drove up and stopped for lunch at Lake Tahoe, which I haven’t seen yet for some lunch. We sat by the marina and had a nice meal, it was very relaxing, as you could imagine we were. As Bruce said, Thelma and Louise without the breaking the law stuff. VERY FUN!!! We arrived in Reno around mid-afternoon we went from the tree filled mountains straight down to the desert, and I mean desert. There was white gravel and houses, no grass at all. Then booked into The Sienna Hotel and Casino and went straight up to the Spa and booked in for our massage. We looked around the hotel and killed a little time; Paula played a little roulette while I went back to the room and washed the face and chilled for a little while. That massage was the best thing EVER!!!! It was an hour of heaven, then Paula and I sat in Sanctuary Room for I think about an hour, chatting, drinking water with the neck hot packs on. It was very soothing and we didn’t want to leave. We got back to the room and had the showers and got ready to go out for the night. I was doing really well considering, I was on 4 hours sleep and Paula was drugged up for her sickness and headache. I started watching “John Tucker must die” and then we both got into it, so we had to watch the end of it, which for the record the end was SHOCKING!!! What a let down. We walked out of the hotel to walk down the road to find somewhere to eat at and ended up at the Eldorado for dinner. We finished up there had a quick walk around and then went back to the Siena at around 11.00pm. We went into the casino and decided to watch the craps table to try and figure out how to play. A nice man who worked there explained how it all went and finally after a little bit Paula put a bet on and won, so we stayed for a little longer. We looked at the clock and it was 1.30, we were having a lot of fun, doing the happy dance when we won and making the guys at our end of the table do the happy dance too. Which they thought was funny, but they did it, we even had the guys working the table doing the happy dance (when we asked). We hit the room just after 2.00am. I was awake again at 8.00, Paula was still asleep so I layed in bed until 9.00 and then got up and dressed and went outside and called Bruce. We had a chat and I got back to the room around 10.00, when Paula woke up. We got ready to check out and grabbed a locker at the spa before checking out. We spent the next couple of hours by the pool and then hit the stores to find a hat, (yes, I was burnt to a crisp) then hit the road. We took the short way home; it’s only 2 hours. We hit Elk Grove at 4.45 and picked up Paula’s boys, and then home for me for a minute, packed the bags and all went over to Paula’s for a swim. We had a quick dinner and dragged out butts back to home and to bed. We all had a big weekend, the boys had a good weekend with Dad, as you can imagine, did whatever. Which is good for them. So that was our week, the week itself was pretty normal but the weekend was good fun, I think the boys had nearly as much fun as I did on our girls weekend. One for the memory book. I hope you are all staying warm, I saw mum on the webcam the other day in a skivvy and remembered that it’s getting cold down there. So, stay warm!!! GO SUPERCATS!!!! Congrats to Mark on his 300th game & congrats to the boys for being undefeated.