Thursday, January 29, 2026 I was inexplicably not tired today. Three days of doing nothing must fill up the reserves. I woke up a couple minutes before my 6am alarm and everything. Keith was already awake. It was weird. It felt good to be at work – normal. Unfortunately, I had jerky kids all day […]
Wednesday, January 28, 2026 I woke up to Keith saying our flight was delayed 90 minutes. Uh oh. Will we make our connection in Dallas?Yes. Our plane from Dallas to Minneapolis is the same plane as the one we are taking from LA to Dallas. It can’t leave without us. We are so lucky. Keith
Tuesday, January 27, 2026 We continued our warm leisure today. We had lunch on the sun deck and dinner pizza in front of the TV. I sat and read on a lounge chair in the warm air under some clouds. It could not have been nicer.
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Monday, January 26, 2026 I’d like to go on record saying that I actually did write a brief POTD before I fell asleep last night, but Keith didn’t know it until after he did it himself. I thought he did a better job than I did, so win for everyone. There was a plan for
Sunday, January 25, 2026 Barbara fell asleep early tonight, so it’s Keith with a brief report of the day. We woke up early to send Benjamin off with an Uber to LAX airport to fly home. Things started almost on schedule (8:11am departure rather than 8:00) and arrival in Detroit almost a half-hour early. But
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Saturday, January 24th 2026 I saw a magical moment first thing this morning. There were two teenage girls getting out of our train on Big Thunder Mountain as we were getting in. I noticed them because one of the girls had on super cute blue and white striped pants. As I settled into my seat,
Friday, January 23, 2026 It was a beautiful day – sunny and warm. Benjamin went to California Adventure to play his game and the rest of us started at Disneyland. You have to make a park reservation in advance and can’t park hop until 11am. Keith and I rode Big Thunder 3 times before Daniel
Thursday, January 22, 2026 No sense in burying the lede – Keith fell down. He read us the weather before we left this morning. 17% chance of drizzle at noon. What they meant was the rain would start about 10am and last until 6pm. It would sometimes be drizzly, but mostly be rainy. Benjamin spent
Wednesday, January 21, 2026 We overslept. Keith woke up at 7:09, roughly an hour later than the planned time to get up. We thought we had four alarms set. Apparently, we did not. We scurried and were out the door in 15 minutes, on the shuttle bus in ten more, and standing in California Adventure
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Tuesday, January 20, 2026 When the train has been delayed it’s hard to know when you will get to your stop. We planned to get off in Fullerton, originally scheduled for 7:10am-ish. The Amtrak website continued to say we were on time – yet at midnight we were a solid three hours behind. A third-party