Hasn't even started yet, and boy do we have plans. After a year of teaching high school science (with an attempt at teaching a class of junior-high kids to write) we're going to Disneyland! Four days in the Happiest Place on Earth (and I can definitely use a happy place after a school year of attitude problems) -- and we're even going to stay in the Disneyland Hotel. Never stayed there before, and the prospect of just getting on the monorail into Disneyland and avoiding a million people waiting at the gates is pretty cool. We're all pretty jazzed about that. But wait -- there's more!
Once we get home, we get a week to recuperate, and then our old friends from England come over for their yearly two-week visit. They always get to pick what they want to do, and this year it's Roswell, New Mexico! LOL, gotta love those aliens. Works out pretty well, because we have relatives in Roswell, and we haven't seen them for a while, plus it's not all that far from Carlsbad Caverns and some pretty good Billy the Kid stuff (Lincoln, NM is a hot spot), so it should be a good short trip. Plus they're bringing me my yearly supply of Earl Grey tea from Fortnum and Mason, not to mention an authentic Indiana Jones shirt and pants from the place in England that makes the stuff for the movies. Can't complain! I've just about got every piece of authentic Indy gear I can find, right down to the hats and the Mark VII gas mask bag that he used in the movies, not to mention the jacket, whip, and holster, so this ought to set me up pretty good for this year's Halloween -- plus I may have to start wearing this stuff, just because, when it cools off later in the year (that leather jacket looks great in the movies, but it ain't summer-in-Arizona apparel).
I haven't done anything of this scope in one summer since I've had summers -- and boy, there have been a lot of summers in my life -- and I'm looking forward to it. I hope it will be fun for my daughter, too. Making memories -- that's really what life is about. Let's hope there are some good ones this year.
Herp
