Yep it's been forever.

Again.

A quick summary if you're not on Facebook (which despite my privacy and big brother government reservations... I still use. Because it has an app) we took a vacation. A real live vacation. And while we did technically visit family on this vacation, the purpose of it was just to travel and see stuff. And touch it.

One of the cool things about traveling with little to no plans is that there isn't a hotel reservation to get to or an objective to arrive at by x day.. so when we to got Las Vegas to rent a trailer and decided that wasn't in our best interest after all.. instead of heading north as originally planned, we headed south west to see the Grand Canyon.

The other cool thing was when we wanted to get off the road and explore and touch the cool rocks and stuff.. we did. It took alot of the monotony of travel out of long travel that first 2 days.

And Larry and I (more emphasis on the Larry part) are pros at driving at all hours, and infact have pulled a few overnight trips since having kids, so with pillows, blankets and enough snacks to feel a village in Mexico we can travel as long as we can stand it. That also helped with the flexibility.

The not so great stuff... because we didn't have the trailer, we did end up having to find hotels along the way. And there are some places of this great big country that the next hotel is 9o miles away... but having "smart" phone, a AAA guide with hotels listed and an atlas helped. Alot. Of course we got the Atlas 4 states into our trip when we realized that
a. yes. in 12 years roads to change. Particularly the one that used to go over the Hoover dam.
b. Cell service is not a right and in most of utah and idaho it's not even a privilege
c. Dance moms. Google it. Apparently it's a big phenomenom which books up hotels in the middle of no where. We hit 3 towns with big dance things going on, thus limited vacancy and not the affordable sort of vacancy.

But overall it was a once in a lifetime trip.

In other news. Easter came and went, we had company. It was fun and I think we should do it more often. In fact I'm thinking monthly or twice monthly. Maybe not AS many people but a few would be great.

Our petting zoo is now hatching chickens, fancy 4-h kinds, apparently. I went to work and came home to Larry and the kids with fertile eggs they got from Craigslist. We tried liberating one of our quail who decided the wild was just too wild for him and found his way back into the shed hanging out under the cages. Goats keep getting mentioned but I'm just not there yet. And considering we live on 1/10 of an acre our animal menagerie is going to be somewhat limited by space. Actually 1/10 might be an exaggeration, it's probably less.

Work's been going ok. Most days I think it's ok, but some days I think "And I thought I missed THIS?!!???!!!"   But, hey... I'm back at work, I'm working towards that stupid furnishing number hours and will be able to re-qualify for board certification.. So what could be bad about that?

And as much as I have stories I want to share about the horrors I've seen at work... I've been reading about blogs and such getting people in trouble when they share stuff about their patients.. HIPPA and all that.. so you'll just have to guess at all the fun I've been having. And then some because at least 1/2 my day is in Spanish. HA. And my parents thought Latin was the better language to take in high school. But I guess their crystal ball of my future did not include my working in a free clinic in the area of  US that could pass for parts of Mexico. Viva la Vida!!