My wife (klondike.kate, to be referred to as "k") and I got up for a awesome breakfast prepared by my brother-in-law, Guy. k, who had a hangover from anti-anxiety meds for the flight, went right back to sleep and didn't get up until 6pm. She went to bed again at 10pm.
I sat in front of the tv so I could hang out with Nikki (Guy's wife) and my niece Rory. The unfortunate thing of it was that Nikki was watching the Lifetime channel and watched it all afternoon. I can't say that a marathon of Lifetime movies was what I thought I would be doing on my vacation. For that matter I never thought that I could even survive such a marathon. It was quite special. Quite.
I did get to highlight Nikki's hair today which was fun. I actually highlighted it twice because the stated "30 minutes" (which was extended to 45) did almost nothing to change the color of her hair. The 2nd go round, of 75 minutes, produced very nice, if subtle, results. We were hoping for a more dramatic finish so we might do something more with it this week.
The parent in-laws arrived around 6pm. I listened to several long rabbit-trailed and highly uninteresting stories from my father-in-law before retreating to my room to surf the internet on their DSL connection (it's a dream after my meager 64k at home). I did get out for a bit to go with Nikki to the store at which I was emotionally scarred at seeing a life sized animatronic santa "getting jiggy with it."
The evening wrapped up by playing a game with Guy and Nikki. Little did I know that Guy had had a few drinks and, as such, became increasingly loud and obnoxious as the game worn on. I was glad when Nikki finally won and released me horror of it all.
The plus of the day is that I had zero responsibilities, there was very little stress, and the day was long in a luxurious sense. Hopefully I can say the same about my six remaining days...
| December 21, 2003 09:36pm | 
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