Whirlwind

This past weekend I packed the family up and we went on a tour of family members in Southern Nevada and Southern Utah. Most peopl think that I'm insane when I make trips like this but I think it's the best way to travel. We left Friday after I finished with work and made our way to Henderson where we were staying with my Uncle Mike. We arrived about 7 pm and ended up staying up until after 10 pm when Grace finally cried herself to sleep a full 4 hours past her normal bed time. For those of you keeping score this meant I had been up working and driving for almost 21 hours.

We left my uncles the next morning and proceeded to my aunts in Las Vegas, visited for about an hour and made our way to Logandale to see my Grandparents. We got there visited them and moved on to Overton to visit my other aunt and a cousin who had recently been released from the hospital after having open heart surgery. Visited there for an hour and proceeded on to even more grandparents. We stayed there for a few minutes and made our way to St. George Utah to visit more grandparents. We arrived in St. George about 6 pm PST stayed up until 10 pm again. Grace had us up and moving by 5 am and we were on the road back home to California early Sunday Morning.

what might you say can be accomplished with such a visit. Quite a bit actually. Sometimes great closeness can be achieved in lengthy visits and some times it can just be a lot of time spent sitting around doing nothing. Our visit was the former. We spent time with family we hadn't seen in quite some time and who we wouldn't be seeing for at least six months to come.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Really, who can pass on such a superb title for a blog. For Christmas my Sister in Law bought the wife and I the complete series of BtVS on DVD. As the weeks have past we have found ourselves watching the episodes and still find them ridiculously enjoyable. One thing that I have noticed is how many people who either had been in things I'd seen prior to Buffy or have been in things since Buffy. As an example we watched the "I only have eyes for you" episode in which a prominent character from Deadwood played a janitor who was possessed by the ghost of a high school boy who was in love with his teacher and while being possessed the janitor killed another teacher.