John Mikel

        Hey!! Today we didn't get out much.... we did a lot of school work!! Ugh! We woke up, got our books, and went down to the hotel lobby to do our work. We worked for a few hours and while we were working Dad left to go get a pizza and to look around some. He came back with a HUGE pizza! There was so much that we shared with the people working at the front desk in the hotel.....that is so, Dad! We went up to the room and ate some pizza. We worked on spelling some while in the room. I wanted to go upload my camera at CVS so that I could post more pictures for you. You know how sometimes things seem like they are just going to be a "quick trip" so you don't really take the time to get, "fancied up" to go? Yeah.... this was one of those times. We uploaded all of my pictures and waited at least 15 minutes for the disc to burn.... and the computer messed up! We had to re-do the upload about 6 times until the lady behind the counter just gave up and left the store! Her shift was up and she was probably like, "hallelujiah, I can go home and leave the madness of these Kentucky weirdos!"  Well, it shows that CVS is a really customer friendly store! Then... came George! He comes, waddling up to us and tries to help. He has us load the memory card at least 3 more times.... because, of course, he thought it was our fault; not the machine's fault! This was all happening while Tay and Dad uploaded their camera and it worked the first time on their machine. Finally, when they were done, and there was a long line behind us, (more on that later...) George moved us to another machine. Funny thing, it worked the first time.... it was the CVS machine broken and not the Kentucky Weirdos! During the chaos, a lady came up, reached over mom's shoulder and just started pushing buttons trying to load her camera at the same time..... needless to say, mom backed her up quickly!! She didn't speak English; so we really don't know what her response was!! ha! Well, after mom's altercation with the CVS button pusher, we went back to the hotel for more school work.... I think my trip to CVS should count as PE today, considering the physical activity! But, overall George was nice (he didn't walk out on us) and even gave us credit for the 16 times our upload didn't work.... including the pictures the button pushing lady loaded on top of our order! We were there so long that the lady next too us on the other machine, grabbed a Snickers and ate it and Taylor took a bottle of water out of the cooler and drank it.... Of course, we both paid when we paid for our pictures....

Whew, what a Monday! The rain didn't stop us from having fun! It all goes to show, that anything can work out if you find the humor in the situation. Did I mention, Dad bailed during the fiasco? He went to the truck and had tulips waiting for mom when she came out! He should have had a card that said, "as I was saying before the circus came to town...." ;-)

I wonder what Tuesday will bring? I'm hoping for more of the same! Tee-Hee!

My shout out today goes to God! He is so awesome, giving Taylor her talent and opportunity to use it and for me to be in New York! I love the city!

 ~ John Mikel