the play was a success. i have one very funny photo that i need to put up here, but i don’t have time right now. maybe later.
the party, too, was a success but why do i have to obsess so much about cleaning the house before a party? perhaps if i’d try to clean on a regular basis there wouldn’t be so much cleaning to do. just a thought. not that i’ll actually do it.
so now i’m tired of this summer. i can’t believe i’m feeling that way, but ENOUGH WITH THE HEAT AND HUMIDITY. it’s a pain to even go outside. this morning i took mollie running before it became unbearable, but then she started limping and now she’s limping even more and i’ll have to take her to the vet in the morning if it’s not better. there’s nothing so sad as the sight of mollie limping around.
people asked me about the next thing i’m doing. i dunno. well, i DO know…we’re going on a bike trip along the danube river IN THREE SHORT WEEKS FROM NOW.
i have all this literature the bike tour company sent us and one thing i read last night was DON’T WAIT UNTIL TWO WEEKS BEFORE YOU GO TO START RIDING YOUR BIKE.
WE’VE ONLY GONE ON ONE BIKE RIDE THIS SUMMER.
and that was weeks ago, when i was still getting over being sick forever. WE MUST START RIDING. RIGHT NOW.
EXCEPT IT’S TOO DAMN HOT OUTSIDE.
so there’s the problem. we were too busy with the play, and now the heat is too much.
so i guess we’ll be lucky to ride our bikes two weeks before the trip.
plus, kevin is all about no pre-planning. he went on a bike tour to ireland a few years ago and i remember him standing in his bedroom throwing a bunch of stuff in a huge backpack on the MORNING HE WAS LEAVING.
that trip, though, was a guided bike tour. he biked with other people and they all stayed in the same hotels together and had meals together and hung out together. and they had a van that drove with them, in case people didn’t want to keep cycling. kevin kept cycling, even when it rained and was very very windy and everybody else rode in the van because many of them had crashed and hurt themselves or were just too tired.
this trip, even though it’s a tour, is a self-guided tour. we got a list of hotels, and when we get to the first one we’ll get more information, hopefully good maps, plus our bikes. but then we bike on our own, we’re all on our own, except they transport our suitcases from hotel to hotel. so we don’t have to strap them on our backs.
but we’re on our own and it would be good, for example, to know the particular sights in the different towns where we’ll be stopping, and maybe to have some maps of the hotels, and certainly to find out about vienna, where we’ll be spending three nights at the end of the tour.
travel stuff. not to mention proper cycling gear. i have two pairs of bike shorts, hopefully that’ll be enough. and i’m sure kevin has enough other bike stuff for both of us.
but still, there are things to do, we can’t just waltz out the door on the day we leave without some planning and some stuff that has been researched. and stuff like that.
TIME’S A WASTIN!
i’m glad we don’t have to go out to new salem to the show tonight. too hot.
ok then,
travel grace.