… kind of sucked. For one, Dave was sick (still is today) so we had to bag our plans to attend his work function, which was a harbor cruise on the steam ferry. (Sounds more luxe than it is; but it was free booze, on a boat, on an absolutely gorgeous night, on the river, which sounded like the coolest thing.) But, since you can’t really take your chances on "if I feel bad, we’ll duck out early" when it’s a BOAT, we cancelled the sitter and stayed home. Suck.  Sunday he felt well enough to go to the fair, so we strapped Ingrid into the Patapum for the first time and took advantage of dollar day, where it was a buck each for Dave and I (Ing was free) to get in, and we checked out the animals and stuff, and then paid a buck each to take Ingrid on the carousel. She’d gone on the one in the St Louis Zoo, and Dave had missed that first, but she liked her second trip, too. (Although the STL Zoo carousel is so freaking beautiful, I am glad that that was her first one… I know, lame.)

Ingrid and I went to say good bye to our friends Natalie and Julia; in true gretchen form, I met Natalie on the internet when she relocated here for her med school rotations (internship? I always forget the vocab on that…) and she had Julia 10 weeks before I had Ingrid, so Julia was Ing’s "first friend." She is off to Texas for residency, so we swung by for a last goodbye, and one last shot of the girls in Bangor.

Then, I spent an inordinate amount of time researching Disney World. See, the major conference in my field is EDUCAUSE’s annual one, and I’m dying to go. This year’s is in Seattle, which I’d love to attend, because I’ve always been enamored of Seattle, and yet never been, but to get there and back would make the trip almost a full week, and that is just too long for me right now. (It’s in October.) But NEXT year, it’s in Orlando, AND it’s over our anniversary. So, I’d like to take advantage of that and stretch it to a vacation (my boss is actually doing the same thing with her husband and son in March, for her Big Annual Event) but Dave thinks that’s ridiculous. Of course, I have to remind him that he married a traveler, and that he apparently loves Disney enough to pay for a completely inane subscription. (He doesn’t care about Disney.) And while right NOW, Ingrid might be oblivious to the Happiest Place on Earth, at 2.5, she would probably get SOME enjoyment out of it. Hell, even if we just went and stayed at a fun hotel, and visited friends and family (family on the east coast, friends on the west) why not? You know? Especially since my flight, and our room for so many nights, and my meals, would be covered by work?   Anyway, it was fun to research hotels and such, and to daydream about a Real Vacation for a bit.

Dave was still sick today, so I did the daycare dropoff, and at work, man, I just felt like crap. Not like Dave, but I’m getting a summer cold (the worst!) and that sucks. Tomorrow I’m leaving early, though, to pick up Ingrid and go to a La Leche League celebration at the park, for World Breastfeeding Week. I was hired so quickly back in February, that I evaporated from all of my mama-baby events, so I’m looking forward to a late afternoon get together with Ingrid and other babies.

That’s where I’m at. Yawn. (And any Orlando with a 2.5 year old tips are much appreciated, too. :))