my phone conversation with randy yesterday:
RANDY: so i guess you’re just writing on your site every tuesday now, huh?
ME: yeah.
so THERE, mr. dunham, MONDAY!
things have been busy, in a very not obvious way. coughing, mostly, plus kevin had knee surgery on friday. i felt bad sitting in the waiting room for hours because i kept having coughing fits and i’m sure the other people waiting didn’t appreciate it.
the codeine cough syrup was a bitter disappointmens. it wasn’t real codeine, it was a codeine-like substance, and instead of making me sleep it made me wired.
but at least i didn’t stay up coughing; instead i was wide awake, my mind racing a million miles a minute.
kevin has been hobbling around and the pain is getting less bad but he’s taking plenty of vicodin. yesterday he spent most of the day leather-working. he made a new holster; he had one homemade holster but wanted two, so he can shoot with both guns blazing. he’s joined a shooting society where the members dress in old west outfits and do all kinds of target shooting.
it kept him from walking around too much, anyway.
there was something in the paper today about the need to HAVE GOALS IN LIFE. this worries me, but i already came up with one goal, and that is to post the rest of the bike trip photos before the year is out. no wait, an ambitious update to my goal – i’ll post them by the end of the MONTH.
never mind that my previous goal was to post them by christmas.
there aren’t that many left; these are all from our last two days which were spent in vienna. it’s a beautiful city, one that i’d like to go back to. there are almost too many things to see there; certainly there are too many things to see in two days.
but we managed to get to a whole lot of places. it was just as exhausting as biking all day.
on thursday we started out at the Hofburg palace, which is a huge collection of a bunch of different museums all in one place. you could easily spend a week there. here’s what the inner courtyard looks like.
the first museum we went to was the treasure chamber, which was choked with jewels and jeweled crowns and swords and treasures of the Order of the Golden Fleece and various bits of the TRUE CROSS and everything old and unbelievably valuable and incredible.
this was the most crowded museum we visited on thursday, but it wasn’t so bad. i took lots of video, but kevin didn’t take many photos. here’s one.
we spent a couple of hours there, and then had a little lunch at the outdoor cafe.
we’d bought a combo pack of tickets for the various museums, and kevin wanted to see the Imperial Silver collection. i wasn’t interested, but we went and it my favorite museum. it was filled with a mind-boggling amount of silver, china, linens, and incredible stuff from the imperial palace.
these are just a few of the photos that kevin took. after that we toured the imperial apartments, but they didn’t impress me as much as the mounds of silver.
after that we did a bunch more things, but that’s all i have time for at the moment.
ok then,
monday midday grace.