Dillierama

Last weekend's awesome trip to the Caribbean was followed by a boring week of my nursing an evil sunburn on my shoulders.  It was so bad it made wearing a bra feel like I was being tortured.  So, we opted to stay in most of the week and let the mom-boobs swing free (this worked out great for John as he had plenty of time to work on his Sudoku puzzles, to which he's become addicted).  Earlier in the week the sunburn on my shoulders had blistered up and then turned into dead zombie flesh.  But this morning, it's peeled off and I'm back to my pale, freckly self again.  I had hoped to come home with some nice color, but it turns out only my freckles tan, so I look more like a Dalmatian than ever before.  John even remarked that it looks like I got some new ones.  Thankfully he thinks it's cute. 

Saturday was our fourth wedding anniversary, so I was even more excited to do something fun, but as it turned out John wasn't feeling well (must have eaten something bad), Alex was in a screaming kind of mood and I was just grumpy from having been cooped up for a week.  By afternoon John was feeling better so we did manage to get out to the Amador Causeway for a while.  We rented a "car bike" and rode up and down the Causeway and watched the birds catch fish.  It was fun, but it was hot, so we opted to get ice cream smoothies and go back to the air conditioned hotel for the rest of the night.  After Alex went to bed our anniversary got much better ;)  We do plan to celebrate our anniversary again when we get home by getting a babysitter and going to our favorite fondue restaurant.

I think we're quickly entering that phase of a trip where you find that the novelty of being away from home has long since worn off and the walls of your already cramped hotel room begin to close in on you. Next week will be pretty boring, John will be busy wrapping up his work here and I'll be trying to figure out how to get all this crap back into our suitcases.  Surprisingly, I am looking forward to getting home and getting back to normal life.  Being here has been a fantastic experience, but it feels like it's time to go home.