The three days in my pajamas didn’t actually work out that way. Which is a good thing really. Although my days were very relaxed. Here’s a rough idea of my time.
Sleep in, have some breakfast (generally fruit that we had bought at Walmart), go to Starbucks, buy a caramel latte and sit on my laptop (well not literally) for two hours (if you have $5 in credit on a Starbucks card you get two hours free internet a day and the hotel was charging an outrageous $6.95 per hour as the cheapest option) looking up stuff for our trip/emailing/face book/blogging etc, go shopping, back to the hotel and work out in the gym for an hour, have a shower and by then Nic would usually be back.
There were of course some minor variations - occasionally Nic could meet me or I might read my book. One day I even did some writing and another day I watched the first half of Bones that I had missed the night before due to time zone differences (praise the Lord for being able to stream and/or download it). But essentially my days were much the same. But oh so lovely.
Nic would also bring me back goodies from the conference like food, drinks, chocolates, pens, usb drives and one day even some vitamins and a rubber duck. It was heaven! (Sarah you would have been so excited by all the freebies).
Following on from my previous successful shopping, my trip to The Gap was even more so. Two long sleeve tops, two skirts and a jumper later (all for about $193), I left a happy girl. And because of the difference in sizes between America and Australia one of the skirts was size 8 and the other size 6!!!! God bless America! And that’s with me having put back on a fair bit of the weight I lost last year.
It could be all of it actually but as there are no scales here in kilos I really haven’t checked. I mean I could weigh myself in pounds and convert but really, why would I want to do that?
But imagine what size skirt I could have bought if I was the size I was at the start of the year. A size 4??? It blows my mind to just think about it.
Anyhoo after our cheap Cats tickets in Chicago we decided to see what was playing in Minneapolis and it came down to 101 Dalmatians and The Little House on The Prairie (both musicals believe it or not). We decided on 101 Dalmatians (after all who doesn’t enjoy a good kids show) and had a great time. They even had real dogs in it but they didn’t do much.
When I walked to the theater to get the tickets I noticed a poster for an evening with David Sedaris - I had just missed it. It was the first night we got here. I have just finished a book he has written that Fiona lent me which is hilarious - he also writes for the New Yorker (do you like the way I just dropped that piece of info in, like I‘m a local and in the know about stuff?). Anyway if you are looking for a good read, look him up.
The last night in Minneapolis Nic had a dinner so I went along too. We didn’t quite know where to sit when we got there (we were a bit late - not my fault by the way), so we found a table with only two women as they kind of looked a bit lonely. As it turned out they were doctors from Russia and one of them knows a friend and co-worker of Nic’s. It’s a small, small world………of all the tables we could have sat at!
And although I am not a dancer I am proud to say that I let Nic drag me up onto the dance floor.
The things you do for friends!
Sleep in, have some breakfast (generally fruit that we had bought at Walmart), go to Starbucks, buy a caramel latte and sit on my laptop (well not literally) for two hours (if you have $5 in credit on a Starbucks card you get two hours free internet a day and the hotel was charging an outrageous $6.95 per hour as the cheapest option) looking up stuff for our trip/emailing/face book/blogging etc, go shopping, back to the hotel and work out in the gym for an hour, have a shower and by then Nic would usually be back.
There were of course some minor variations - occasionally Nic could meet me or I might read my book. One day I even did some writing and another day I watched the first half of Bones that I had missed the night before due to time zone differences (praise the Lord for being able to stream and/or download it). But essentially my days were much the same. But oh so lovely.
Nic would also bring me back goodies from the conference like food, drinks, chocolates, pens, usb drives and one day even some vitamins and a rubber duck. It was heaven! (Sarah you would have been so excited by all the freebies).
Following on from my previous successful shopping, my trip to The Gap was even more so. Two long sleeve tops, two skirts and a jumper later (all for about $193), I left a happy girl. And because of the difference in sizes between America and Australia one of the skirts was size 8 and the other size 6!!!! God bless America! And that’s with me having put back on a fair bit of the weight I lost last year.
It could be all of it actually but as there are no scales here in kilos I really haven’t checked. I mean I could weigh myself in pounds and convert but really, why would I want to do that?
But imagine what size skirt I could have bought if I was the size I was at the start of the year. A size 4??? It blows my mind to just think about it.
Anyhoo after our cheap Cats tickets in Chicago we decided to see what was playing in Minneapolis and it came down to 101 Dalmatians and The Little House on The Prairie (both musicals believe it or not). We decided on 101 Dalmatians (after all who doesn’t enjoy a good kids show) and had a great time. They even had real dogs in it but they didn’t do much.
When I walked to the theater to get the tickets I noticed a poster for an evening with David Sedaris - I had just missed it. It was the first night we got here. I have just finished a book he has written that Fiona lent me which is hilarious - he also writes for the New Yorker (do you like the way I just dropped that piece of info in, like I‘m a local and in the know about stuff?). Anyway if you are looking for a good read, look him up.
The last night in Minneapolis Nic had a dinner so I went along too. We didn’t quite know where to sit when we got there (we were a bit late - not my fault by the way), so we found a table with only two women as they kind of looked a bit lonely. As it turned out they were doctors from Russia and one of them knows a friend and co-worker of Nic’s. It’s a small, small world………of all the tables we could have sat at!
And although I am not a dancer I am proud to say that I let Nic drag me up onto the dance floor.
The things you do for friends!
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