The first day back to work after a vacation is always difficult, but today wasn't so bad. I wasn't too far behind. And in three weeks, I'll be on vacation again...
Toronto was fun. We didn't go nuts trying to do too many touristy things, partly because of the weather and partly because we didn't feel like it. It felt good to get a decent night's sleep on most of the nights there. We ended up not going to Pickering as I had planned on Friday because I stayed up so late Thursday night yapping with Dev, both for the podcast and then for another 75 minutes afterward. Didn't get to bed until 2:30. By the time I had dragged my butt out of bed and shook the cobwebs out of my skull, it was too late to make the hour trek there and back. It was also cool earlier Thursday evening to see my old buddy Stephen for the first time in 30 years and meet his wife and cute-as-a-button daughter. We both acknowledged that it was kind of risky to get our families together since we had no idea what the other was like, but I think we each got a good vibe off of FB that the other guy wasn't psycho. And the wives and kids got along famously, too. Hopefully, we'll see them again before too long.
Friday night, we went out to a surprise 40th anniversary dinner for my uncle and aunt. Chowed on some delicious Indian food and got to hang out with my cousins and their spouses for one last evening. We were up early Saturday and hit the road before 8. Luckily, all the forecasts calling for thunderstorms were off the mark, because we had beautiful weather the entire way home. We stopped at Niagara Falls for an hour or so to let the girls check it out and then got back on the road. There were no major traffic delays and we made it home by 6:30. The girls were great on both road trips, which is good because we've got an even longer drive in a few weeks when we head down to Hilton Head.
Speaking of the road trip, I put together a road-themed mix especially for the trip that got me in the right frame of mind:
Spoon - I Turn My Camera On (a favorite of the girls)
The Black Keys - Have Love Will Travel
Gary Numan - Cars
Sloan - D is for Driver
The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
Judas Priest - Heading Out to the Highway
Deep Purple - Highway Star
Arctic Monkeys - Riot Van
Fu Manchu - Boogie Van
Mission of Burma - Careening with Conviction
Queens of the Stone Age - River in the Road
Foo Fighters - Long Road to Ruin
The Feelies - The High Road
Drive-By Truckers - Road Cases
Frank Black and the Catholics - Pan American Highway
Mr. Airplane Man - Lonesome Road
The Tragically Hip - Highway Girl
Joe Strummer - Highway One Zero Street
Spoon - Car Radio
Robert Pollard - Supernatural Car Lover
Arcade Fire - Keep the Car Running
Yeah, it was pretty literal, but it also rocked. Like the vacation.
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