Home again

We spent Sunday relaxing and going to outlet malls. Georgie got a new pair of shoes and I got a wallet with someone else's initials on it (and therefore heavily discounted). Nikki got a few items to complete her fall collection. Then we went to a kind of bad "oriental buffet" restaurant. The kind where the whole picture of the variety of things you can get is exciting but once you start trying the items one by one, you're disappointed with each one. Then we went swimming in the hotel pool. I had to work last night so I snuck off for a nap while Nikki played with Georgie around the hotel and the business park it's in.

I wish I had taken the night off last night. I had been successfully fighting getting sick since Friday morning. I was drinking those Airborne things, which I had never used before. I think the zinc-based things are kind of a racket but the Airborne thing was really working. Until I tried staying up all night. I set up in the 'business' corner of the lobby and could feel myself getting progressively worse all night. Maybe it was inevitable, maybe not. After about 2 I decided to apologize to the night watchman for crowding his space but he said he appreciated the company. I told him I work the night shift too and I know just what he means.

I took a little nap this morning while Nikki took Georgie to a playground, shown above. Then we all drove home together. The only eventful thing on the drive was that I found a toy crane machine that was Japanese-style (two opposing arms) rather than American-style (the 3-pronged claw thing). For some reason these are easier for me and I won Georgie a baseball-uniformed Mickey Mouse on the first try.

We got all the way to Woodbridge before we had to come to a complete stop on the interstate, so a pretty easy drive for I-95. Georgie went to bed just after 7 tonight so maybe this cold and this trip have finally got her bedtime back to where it used to be.