It was a bit of a drive yesterday but nothing too terrible. I have found that driving is one of the "activities" that is hardest on my injury so while 6 hours in a car seems like a simple thing, right now in my life it's not fun.
We got up here in time to do a bit of visiting and relaxing and stretching out from the car trip. I laid on the couch for a couple of hours while people watched a movie and just tried to relax. Then I went to bed and slept, and slept, and slept, and holy cow, I haven't slept like that in a long time. I don't know if it was the mental relaxation of being a vacation or just the cool air coming in the window (it was down in the 30's last night) but I just kept on sleeping. I think I must have gotten about 11 hours of sleep. I usually sleep for about 6 hours a night so you can see how huge this was.
Today, when I finally got up and moving around, we went out for lunch. For this trip, I thought I would try out an app called FourSquare a try. It gives you an easy way to "check in" where you are and then sends that info out to Twitter and Facebook. Now that I type this, I suppose that since all my Twitter stuff goes to Facebook, I'm probably hitting Facebook twice with my FourSquare stuff. Oh well.
Anyway, all you do is open the app and it finds where you are by GPS and then gives you a choice of "gathering places" to choose from. You click on one and you can type in a bit about what's going on and then hit send and you're checked in.
So, we went to lunch at Timber's Edge Restaurant, which I would consider a social gather place since there were plenty of people gathered around socializing. I opened FourSquare and scrolled through the list. Timber's Edge was not listed. However, the Island Park landfill is listed.
I wanted to put my karate class into FourSquare but it's apparently not a "social gathering place". FourSquare is going to let me put it in sometime in the future. Landfills, on the other hand, are apparently social hotspots. Who would've known? I know I'm not a very social person but how did I miss this movement of people hanging out in landfills and tweeting about it?
This afternoon, we went floating down the Snake River in a fishing boat. Just a lazy meander down the river for something to do, especially for Trey. It was fun and it was one of those moments that once again drove home to me just how impressive technology has gotten. Up until a few years ago, cell phone coverage was pretty spotty up here for us. Today, we were floating down the river and I was taking pictures with my Droid and then sending those pictures off on a cyber journey where they would almost immediately show up on Twitter and Facebook.
Truly impressive (and if you'd like to follow along with my journeys, join me on Twitter or Facebook).
It was chilly this morning and I was going to be in the water so I thought I would try out my VFF Flows. The Classics are my faves, no doubt but I thought the Flows would stay on better if I ended up in the river and they would keep me warm. I was correct on all accounts. I was in charge of getting the boat into and out of the water and the Flows stayed in place and kept my feet nice and warm.
They were much easier to put on to compared to last year. I think that it's probably because I have been wearing VFFs all summer. I think my toes are getting used to spreading out to go into the VFFs. It made it so much better for my mindset than last winter when it seemed like a struggle to get them on. I now have a new motivation for my next job. It should be a job that allows me to wear VFFs so that I don't have to jam my feet into shoes because of some dress code. =)
Tonight, I believe we have another lazy night of visiting and I have promised Trey that I would play a game with him. He has found a stash of games that we don't have at home so we'll be trying something called Pictureka tonight. We'll see if we can talk some other people into joining in with us.
Tomorrow, I believe we'll be heading into Yellowstone for a while because Trey wants to go back. I'll be taking plenty of pictures, some posted live from the Droid and many more to posted to Facebook when I'm back on my own computer.
Stay tuned.