Thanks Harry!You are insinuating that I was able to keep you in line?
I'm good but not that good!
I do plan on staying in touch. The bouncing needs to be strictly monitored, although there hasn't been any bouncing going on lately. What gives?!
You got it! I'm not so sure I can be controlled, so monitoring me would be pointless! That's kind of scary to think about! 
Hi Nikki, Harry
Yep we are back, just picked up the pets from boarding, uggg it was more than I expected. somehow I estimated wrong.
I am off this week too, so now maybe I will get to relax some
Last Tuesday started out well, oh at least I thought.
Your know that nagging feeling you forgot something or to do something.
I packed the car, loaded the roof rack and attached the bike rake and bikes.
Mail and paper was stopped for the week, Timers were set for the lights.
We locked the house and were off.
On time yet.
Still it went too well, oh well if we forget something, we properly didn't need it.
We had driven about two hundred miles, stopped for lunch and has about another 100 miles to go, and then it dawn on me what I forgot.
A little background,
In 1995 I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. I use a cpap machine to help me keep my air passage ways open at night. I used it every night since without fail
Yep it was my machine, When we were packing the car, I remember saying to Beth, I needed to go back in the bedroom and get my machine.
Well packing the roof rack and attached the bike rack and bikes took longer and was hard work on a hot humid morning.
I came back in the house thinking the car trunk, roof rack and bikes were all loaded. I even walked in the bedroom to make sure the lights were off, but Beth and I didn't see the machine was still on the night stand.
We had left at 11 am, and stopped for lunch around 12:30. I takes about 5 hrs with rest stops and lunch to get to the campground. It was now 2:30pm I was at the point 1 1/2 hrs to the Lake and about the same to back to home.
If it was almost anything else, I would have continued on, but next exit I got off and headed back home. We got back home at 4pm.
Pick up my machine, used the bathroom and back into the car
Had dinner on the road too, and got to the lake at 9pm.
In total our 5hr trip took 10hrs.
We had a great time even with the packing issue.
No one to get mad at except myself. First time in all these years I forgot my machine.
It never fails that something must throw a wrench in things.
Hey Kristin! No apology necessary! You don't have long at all until your Oct. cruise!! Do you have your excursions booked and all that?
I've been MIA too. I took the kids camping last weekend, which was alot of fun! I am going to be out of town to some degree every weekend until the last weekend in Sept. It's nuts. Things are going pretty well considering. School starts next week.
Harry, I just read they are opening T-Rex up on October 14, isn't that before your trip? I wanna go there too, I looked at their website, it looks nice.
Thankfully the coach has no problem setting this kid straight. Other than that, Hayden is doing pretty well and likes it alot more this year than last.
Yeah, but the kids are staying home. I'm the one who gets to go away!
How is your soccer season going so far? There is this one boy on Hayden's team that will probably get kicked off before the first game is over! He is SUCH a trouble maker!
It's hard to believe the cruise is finally *just* a year away. Unfortunately I will not be going on this cruise after all. I have really enjoyed getting to know each of you, and I was thrilled to get in on this group from day 1!! There have been LOTS of laughs to say the least!! I hope you all have a terrific next year working your way towards cruise time, and I hope you don't mind if I pop in every now and then to see how you all are doing.
. No direct offense intended to everyone else on the thread, but in my opinion you by far were the most engaging, fun and outgoing person here, you really brought so much life to his thread, youll be sorely missed. I for one want to say that should whatever circumstances happen to change and you are somehow able to make the trip, I truly would look forward to finally meeting you (especially since I suffered so brutally from your verbal lashings!!!) . Regardless, I reciprocate what the others have said, please drop in from time to time, as your schedule will allow. I for one would enjoy hearing how you fair and would look forward to a little chat now and then . I wish you the best of luck in whatever the future holds for you 
. Frank. 
Hi Nikki
Now, none of that here.
