Vacation So Far

Friday Night...

Vacation is always a good thing.

I'm watching Titanic, which was and still is a very good movie. It took the facts of a historical and disasterous event and intertwined it with a really good story to give it that fun movie feel instead of a documentary. The RMS Titanic was an interesting ship. Of course, the problems will always begin with giving something an inappropriate name. Calling any ship "unsinkable" is a sure way to ensure that she will, in fact, sink.

Like a stone.

It's chilling to see a boot, a pair of glasses... a few feet on, the skeleton of a doll's face... another distance and and there is the beatifully scalloped fireplace from the main dining room. Chilling, but amazing. The water has preserved as much as it has destroyed. But the water is what killed her.

What killed the people, however, is just sheer screaming stupidity. First they build the supership of the age (1912). They christen her Titanic and then sell her as the unsinkable Titanic, outfitted with only 20 of the 50 or so lifeboats that would have saved everyone. Silly designers, wanting to outfit an enormous unsinkable ship with lifeboats. Then after the ship was determined to be sinking they loaded up the lifeboats at half or less of the capacity that they were designed to hold. One disasterous event after the next.

Human appear not to learn too much from their mistakes, it seems. Foolish and unthinking decisions based on falsehood, overblown thinking and political agenda also killed those onboard the Challenger and the Columbia. Hmmmm. Good to see we get so much from history...

Ah, but I digress.

I got home around 1315, had to pack and shower and get Luis out as well. We left around 1430. However, if you are going to travel, do it on a Jewish holiday! No one was on the road. We sailed through New Jersey, Delaware (which even in traffic is a "blink and you've missed it" state) and Maryland. A new experience. Even our brief trip on 495 was uneventful. When have you ever heard of 495 being uneventful? I was amazed.

Saturday Night...

I'm not, as usual, going to be able to describe the whole vacation in great detail with every bit of minutia... so here are the highlights:

We drove down Thursday afternoon/evening and it was great

We had dinner around 2130 and then had game night at a friend's house (a woman with two-toned hair that helps make board games and is getting ready to own a house - I'm really bad with names)

We got in after 0030, way late, but it was a lot of fun

We got up around 0800, went out for breakfast in Bethesda, MD
We walked around a really nice open area
We went to the National Zoo and saw lots of cool animals
The hippos are bigger than I'd thought
The panda is, too
We left the zoo around 1430 and it took over 30 miutes to go ten miles (never going to complain about New Jersey traffic again!)
We came home and had some truly amazing sex
We went out to dinner to celebrate Izolde's birthday
I don't know how I feel about Vietnamese food - my meal was good, though

We got in around 2130 and watched most of the rest of Titanic, but I fell asleep before I could see the traumatic ending

We got up this morning at 0715 and got dressed for our day at the Maryland Renaissance Festival

We left the house around 0915, relatively on time
We got to the Faire and got our entry tickets

I bought four belts (yay!), a mug, a necklace, got my necklace repaired, bought two or three CDs and one DVD

I loved seeing/hearing the O'Danny Girls and the Rogues
I had my picture taken with the Rogues and loved it

I had a very good reading from Izolde that described how things are looking for the future

Renee and I are enjoying each other's company
We left after we saw the Arial Angels around 1500
We got home without sitting in traffic
We had some chips and then ordered pizza - yummy!
We are going to have game night again here tonight

Tomorrow:
We'll get up whenever and go out for breakfast
Luis and I will head home after that

And I am coming home with a lighter heart