Saturday - late

The day started at 4:45 am, tho I was awake long before that. I didn't sleep well last night and it just happens that way, tho I think the noise in my ears is definitely attributing to the even worse sleep mode.  

So, I drive up to Arkansas, unload, drive back and home in time to grab a sandwich, get my gear and head off to the swimming pool.  It's a rental pool in town.  We were there around 3 hours before we left to go eat at Chili's.  After Chili's, stopped at the house for 2 minutes to grab my shoes - forgot to take them as I was wearing sandals at the pool.

Off to Piney Park. The pool was in my plans, Piney Park definitely was no part of any plans I made today.  I figured after working and the pool I'd be worn out and would want to go home and relax.  Well who needs to relax, apparently, when there are families with kids not to mention 2 kids in my clan who have seemingly limitless energy to bound around this place doing all kinds of stuff.  Up stairs to slide down slides.  Run around a maze to play tag.  Walk around the entire wooded area to see all of the Fall stuff they had out.  Sit down with the kids and have an ice cream.

I did not have an ice cream, the kids were begging so I got them some.  $17 for 2 small cups of ice cream. Well, we did get in free through a friend and that is the only money I spent there. I am consuming no sugars of any kind and excepting for the 5 days of cheating, I haven't been eating sugar at all for many months.  

Also note that the maze was crazy.  I don't know where that energy came from.  I was running through this thing trying to get away from the tagger.  I not only got away from whoever was "IT!", I couldn't believe I was outlasting these kids!  They were bent over huffing and puffing, I was busy running around not getting tagged. 

No, I didn't want to run around a maze. Again, the kids were insistent I go through the maze with them.  This Piney Park adventure was literally non stop for hours.  

Got home around 30 minutes ago, it's after 10.  This has been one of the busiest days I have experienced in quite a while.  My ears are buzzing like crazy and I just remembered I was going to take a benedryl tonight. YES.  The doc asserted it would help with draining the fluid out of my ears and that's exactly what I intend to do. In fact, I'm taking one after I get done with this blog entry. 

Well I want to go to bed so I'm getting offa here.