Dormant.

Ok so I have been a bit dormant in my little piece of the world and well have been extremely busy. If not work, family life, being a volunteer Fire Fighter, friend and trying to be a mediocre golfer, then what you ask. Well sometimes I just want to do nothing and be lazy. And none of that is in any order. It is more of what is priority at the time. Well Family is always priority. I will say this though after meeting my father for the first time face to face it has changed me a bit and I am not sure I can completely explain it. I do not that a huge weight has been lifted from my shoulders.

Too bad there is not a way to find out from my readers (whom ever they are and truly if there are any others out there other then my very dear and close friends) what it might be that they would want to hear about. At any rate I guess you could say that……

It all started out on a beautiful day in Florin the country across the Sea. Where a girl with astounding beauty lived and loved nothing more than to torment a man, a farm boy…… Ok so really it did not start in a country across the Sea at all it started in well who knows. I sure don’t. How ever this country talk brings me to a new thought. (remember the title of the blog)

My spouse and I have lately talked about where it is that we would like to go on a trip before baby #2. She really wants to go to Italy and well I am up for it but the whole thought of traveling to some where over Seas makes me a little bit nervous. Just the thought of something happening to us in Europe or something happening over there while we are there makes me nervous. With all the things going on in the world today it is just scary. I know, I know that loads of people go over to Europe all the time and they are fine but still it makes me uneasy and I am more than likely just going to have to get over it and take the plunge. On any account, the wife wants to go and so do I but my nerves the whole flight there will be shot. I will no doubt have to have a laptop and plenty of games to keep my mind off of it. So again any way the idea is to go to Italy until the other day I mentioned to her that Portugal might be fun and that I heard that it is crazy cheep compared to Spain or Italy. I also at this time would like to say that I would not mind going to Czech Republic or even Slovakia. (that is another story) So off to the book store we go so that she can look at all the information and digest it and then look into where she would like to go and as we all know I am usually just along for the ride. I can see where the mind is going on you and you say “what the He#@ are you talking about just along for the ride, enjoy where you are going and what you are potentially going to be doing you fool” Well just to set the record straight and to let you know how I think a little bit. I am going to enjoy where I would go as long as I am with my family. I love being with them and doing things together so no worries. I however do not have a very strong opinion as to what kind of food I eat as I am not a person that cares that much. I know that I have to eat to survive, but I do not survive or live to eat. I hope that that makes sense. If not well then look at the top and read out loud the title of the blog.

So where was I, oh yes the book store and going to Portugal. So the time was ending in the evening and B says I think that going there would be great. We would have to learn the language a bit though so that we do not stand out too much because there is not a lot of tourism there and so it might make it difficult to navigate around the country a bit. So this to me means that I have to learn the language a bit so that B can concentrate more on the menus that she is going to line up for us. Which is fine except I do not know any one that speaks Portuguesa. I guess you can teach an old dog new tricks when forced. So with this whole thing in mind here is B’s newest idea for going over. She wants to write to the publishers of the local news paper and find out if they will sponsor us on this trip at all on the promise that when she returns she writes a Colum or something that can be published for the readers on traveling to Europe and what to bring, not to bring and all that good stuff keeping in mind that it would be geared towards families with children. Her idea is a great one cause you have to figure out if you need to bring your car seat. I personally would bring it for where ever we go foreign or domestic, but other countries do not have the same DMV rules that we have here in the states so this would be one of the good things to look into. And I am sure that B could go on and on and on about other items but that is why she is the one that wants to write to the news paper and find out if they would sponsor such a trip at all. I mean what is the worst thing they would say…… Yup you guessed it “No.”.

More later.