Summer Weekend, Part 2

Sunday. A day of rest...or at least it is supposed to be.

That is rarely the case for us. Sundays are usually "run around like crazy trying to get everything that needs to be done, done" days. Yesterday was no exception.

We had a pretty mellow start to the morning before getting Kelton to a birthday party at a nearby bowling alley. Oh my gosh was he excited! While he was there having a great time the three of us headed into Portland to locate the hotel where Dakota will be taking the bar next week. It's always good to know where you are going and to check out the facility. We arrived and went inside to ask where the exam would be held and then met up with another hotel staff person who let us into the room.

Dakota inquired about power cords since well.....there weren't any around and our laptop battery certainly won't hold a charge for 9 or more hours. The guy said he believed that everyone just runs off their batteries. That caused a bit of panic and thoughts, I'm sure, of a new notebook computer that might hold a charge for longer than my 3 year old laptop (remember - Dakota's laptop bite it back in April so she is using mine for now). Before we worked ourselves into a tizzy we decided a good course of action would be to call the hotel on Monday to talk with the person in charge of setting up and, if a good answer wasn't provided, Dakota would call the bar and inquire.

Even though we *knew* that power would have to be provided it caused some angst. It's hard not knowing something for sure in times of high stress.

We left the hotel and headed over to the food court at the nearby mall. Kaylen made it quite clear that is what we should do when she said "Is anyone else as hungry as I am?" :) I can't blame her, it was 12:30pm by that time.

After getting lunch we headed back to our side of the river to pick up Kelton. As soon as we walked in both Kelton and the birthday boy came up to us and starting hammering us with "I can go to his house after to play?" "Can he? My mom said it's ok."

After talking with Dakota and the birthday boy's mom we agreed but we first had to stop by the house to pick up his DS. By this time it was 2pm and we still had a lot to do.

More to come after I get lunch for the kids......