Vaca... well at least trying to be on vaca,

Why is it that the first thing I feel I need to type is “resident is alert…” it’s about the only time that I am on a computer lately. Right now Rich and I are on vacation in Florida, staying with Melissa’s aunt and uncle. I slept for 7 hours today between 3pm-10pm. I’m sure as soon as I finally get into vacation mode aka not waking up at 0630 and go to sleep at 9 pm, if not earlier, that I won't require such long naps, then ambien to help me sleep and stya on a normal schedule.  I do wonder how my long term resident’s are doing… Sad thing is the morning we left I made Rich stop by my work to give my manager a brief on my entire resident’s. Plus there happened to be a few things that I forgot to chart, that I felt were important. Different things like, make sure they speak with this resident because his speech is seeming to come back, and when you talk with him, he truly enjoys it, and give him a choice for what or when he goes to do something,


I tried to talk Rich into maybe leaving a day early going to my grandparents’ house earlier and leaving earlier, to go home earlier and not tell anyone, so we can just relax. I feel like I have to do what the other people we are with want to do, even if it doesn’t interest me, like I’d like to go to downtown Naples and look through shops because I like doing that, I even suggested we drive down to the key’s! Rich insists it’s too far and we don’t have enough fundage. We have enough fundage… and what’s another 5 hours when we drove over 12 to get here? Might as well go where the water is clear and blue… that’s just one thing I want to see; clear blue water, white sandy beaches. I told Rich we will just have to get a time-share, so we will be able to go different places see different things and still stay in beautiful places


IBC Cream Cream Soda at 5th st coffee house, Caesar wrap and Italian pesto panini for Rich

Back to what else I like to do when I travel, I like to “see” my way to places, see everything that in between. I want to stop in Savannah, or Kissimmee. We don’t have to stay more than 2 hours, but gosh it’s seeing more than just what the tourism bureau wants you to see. I guess long trips are something I learned from my aunt and uncle; they just took a 2 week vaca and had certain places they wanted to hit... but if an attraction or town sounded interesting, you got off the exit and saw what there was to see. That’s where I first learned I loved to scramble across rocks, we had to stop somewhere, noticed there was a river, lots of rocks to sit on, and a few other cars, must be something interesting… And it was. Some of the best pictures we took on that trip were on those rocks, overlooking waterfalls, standing in from of beautiful Lake Louise… since my middle name is Louise, its cool. In that picture, I’m standing in front of the beautiful blue lake and beautiful mountains behind me!  But alas, My Aunt Jeanne is no longer with us, and the two weeks of vaca in the summer where we took off to random places is over.  Last night i came to a realization that i, also, need to compromise.   And that's my plan.  Right now we are heading to Gainesville Ga for the maternal grandparents.   Rich would like to stop and the museum of natural history at UF in gainesville Fl.  so we will try. hope to update more often and soon!!