Something to say....

So, without beating around the bush... let's see, I finally have something to say. Several things actually. Ever since I have lived in my current house, it has struggled in the plumbing department. Usually this resulted in the basement flooding about twice a year. I'll spare you the gory details of that. But anyway, the plumber boys would always come out and temporarily fix it, but state that soon they would no longer be able to fix it without a major operation. Well, last Thursday, these prophetic words came to fulfillment. The boys worked on it for quite awhile and could not fix it. So, we've been without much water in the house since that time. I went with my roommate to visit her family on Friday and Saturday and have been hanging out at a friend's place quite a bit. It turns out that the boys have to bring in loads of huge equipment, tear up the entire front lawn, and the whole street will be without water while they are fixing it (tomorrow). We also heard that they were closing the street to through traffic and the ambulances would have to take an alternate route (we live on the same street as a hospital). Then we also heard that they might leave one lane open. What a huge ordeal. So now we are being put up in a hotel till it's over. This was going to be a fun little diversion from all the annoyances of not having water. Well, the indoor pool and hot tub are being renovated and we have yet to use the outdoor pool because both evenings there have been scary, tattoo infested guys sitting around - who wants to swim under those conditions? It's so odd though - it's like being out of town in your own town. Tonight we walked across the street to the gas station to pick up a few things... if I wasn't going to work every day, I'd feel like I was on vacation. Tonight we had a Healthy Families picnic so it was a crazy long and tiring day. We had so many families - more than we were expecting showed up so we were sort of scrambling. So anyway, as a side note, we have eaten 2ce at the restaurant in the motel and have had the most interesting waiter I think I have ever encountered. But to try to describe it would be difficult. Fun times. Okay, I'm hoping to get some pictures of all the madness tomorrow and maybe I can post some of them in the not to distant future. ttfn