Sunday, July 23, 2000

This is strange. I already feel like it's been a really long weekend, and it's Sunday afternoon. We've been busy the last few days. Beth is gone now, she's gone back to Michigan (for the third time in 2 months) to get ready for our niece's wedding next Saturday. I didn't want her to have to drive up there alone ( I'm not going until later this week) so we got train tickets for her. The only problem is the northbound train leaves the nearest station (100 miles away) at 3:30 in the morning. So last night at about 9:30 we headed out, the plan being to get there, check into a cheap motel, sleep for a few hours, get Beth on the Amtrak, I'd go back for some more sleep and return home in the morning. Well the big problem with this plan is that Walnut Ridge Arkansas is well shut down by midnight on a Saturday and there are apparently no motels for miles around. So, we decided to try to get some sleep in the car while waiting for the train. I got maybe an hour and a half of sleep and Beth got none (somehow, mosquitoes got in the car, and their racket is practically deafening when you're trying to sleep in it. Plus a freight train went by every half hour). Then the train was almost an hour and a half late. By the time she got on the train, it was starting to get light. I just drove on home and went to bed right away after that. It is now about 2:00 pm and I've only been up an hour.