Hello Interwebs

It's been a little while... actually, it's been almost two weeks, which is more than a little while really. I've been pretty busy... took some vacation time and actually went somewhere, and I've been overall just not interested in blogging.


Now, the problem is that I've got a ton of things to blog about, and still nearly no time what-so-ever to do so. I've also been wanting to get some writing done, having recently been somewhat inspired to do so, and I'm really not seeing it happening.

I will do a quick run-down on what it is that I've been up to.

First of all. I went with my girlfriend on what she calls her 'family vacation'. It's basically a reunion of about 70 family members at one location that they generally invade. It involves tons of aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews. All of these are combined with various types of watercraft at a multi-cabin resort and copious amounts of alcohol. It's spread out over the course of a week.

Oh, and her family is just a little bit crazy. Although, I have to admit, everyone's family is a little bit crazy. You just get used to each individual family's crazy after a while.

Really, they're not bad at all.

So, this vacation runs from Friday through Friday, and due to a lack of usable vacation time, and not wanting to miss out on seeing my kids for a week, I wasn't able to go for the entire time. But, I went from Friday through today and had a pretty good time. I drove back down today.

The "resort" we stayed at was Arcadia Lodge. I used quotation marks because of the fact that Arcadia Lodge is only slightly a resort. It's the first year that they've been there, and I truly hope they don't do it again. First of all, their beach, which isn't much of a beach, actually has posted hours. None of the amenities are very impressive in person, and the cabins main feature is paper thin walls and tin roofs. It's not a terrible place, but given the price list on their website, I wouldn't really recommend it.

It's about a 4 hour drive, and after driving back, I'm pretty exhausted, so I will be stopping there. I have a lot of things to catch up, even though I've only been out of touch since Thursday morning, but, thems are the breaks.

I have some photos that I will try and post up, but I didn't have a lot of camera time, being that I didn't want to take it with me everywhere where I might lose or break it. I will try and get up some pictures from our trip over to Tower, MN, and the Soudan Underground Mine. I got some decent shots there before my batteries died, so I will try to get those posted up. I'm proud of myself because I overcame my rediculous claustrophobia and took the tour which involves packing into a tiny 60 year old elevator on a cable and plummeting at some 15+ mph over half a mile into the earth. It would be interesting to go back and check out the tour of the U of M's Physics Experiments, however it would involve going down in that elevator again.

On another note, there's one thing I can't just let go by yet. I can't beleive they're making a Thundercats movie. Actually, I can believe it, I would just prefer not to.