So what should have been a short break of a couple of weeks turned into a 3 month hiatus for me in this blog....so, so sorry. There are good reasons for my absence though. First, this is my 500th post and I had envisioned writing something exciting and entertaining for this milestone and I figured after going public at work, the next adventure that I wanted to document was our planned week-long vacation to the Upper Peninsula during 4th of July. It was a perfect topic for my 500th post; however, shortly before we left for our trip, one of the other Sales Accountants turned in her notice and ended up leaving the same day as our last day of work before vacation. When we got back to work 7 days later, I was already a week behind at work with my own facility and terminal and also left trying to clean up everything for the other facility and help train the new person who started on my first day back after vacation. Since we've been back, neither D nor I have worked nothing less than 55 hours a week, him working even more than that with all of his weekend calls and emails and then we've had to somehow be normal responsible adults during our home time or we already had other obligations. In the end, this has left me with very little time for narrating the first real vacation I've had in 5 years.
Here's a mini photo recap of all of our vacation fun though:
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| Welcome to the UP! |
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| The cabin's backyard |
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| 4th of July Pure Michigan Style! |
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| My first trip to Canada! |
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| At Tahquamenon Falls |
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| Waiting for freighters |
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| Kinny was on vacation at the cabin too! |
After vacation, we worked, worked and worked some more; attended a graduation party; cooked ribs at Ribfest in Chicago at D's aunt and uncle's annual celebration; hosted my cousins for a weekend and took them to the One Republic/The Script concert; rafted down one of Missouri's rivers to celebrate my Mom's 60th birthday; bartended with my aunt and uncle at the annual church picnic; spent Labor Day smokin' some pork and wings and celebrated my triplet cousins' 17th birthday; enjoyed dinner and drinks with our good friends Andy and Amy (finally, it's was far too long!); and, crossed an item off of my mom and step-dad's bucket list by taking them to a teppanyaki dinner at Kobe Steakhouse of Japan last night.
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| Inspecting our ribs |
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| Cousins weekend! |
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| Celebrating Mom on the river |
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| Bartender extraordinaire |
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| Smokin' some meat |
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| Happy Birthday Zach, Em & Sam! |
I started this blog back in 2005 and while I've tried to keep up with it on a semi-regular basis, it's become harder and harder as my priorities and responsibilities have changed but I enjoy my occasional check-in and nothing is better than a trip down memory lane as I go back and re-read my earlier posts. Here's to another 500+ posts!!
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