Almost Lost -Twice!

Well, another week gone by. My blog is not going to be nearly as exciting as last week’s recap, but hopefully I can get you to smile with a couple stories… So, a couple weeks ago I had to drive a co-worker to the dentist which happens to be near my house. This worked out well for me since I got to go home and relax for a couple hours during the middle of the work day- Nice! Anyway, the dentist office told me to take an exit that was past the exit I take to get home. No worries, we’ll find it. Well, the more I am here the more I appreciate signs and well marked exits that you find in the U.S. As I passed an unmarked exit and several bus stops I knew we must be getting close to the exit we needed to take. So, the next exit we came to I took a chance and exited and I guessed right! The funny thing is you can’t see the exit number until you actually exit! It made me laugh so as I was heading past this same exit to go to Karina’s I took a couple pictures.

The exit number is on the second sign way up on the hill!

The exit # is on the far blue sign

Every day heading home I have to do a U-Turn on the freeway to get heading in the right direction. Well, coming home one night this past week I discovered some construction on freeway. This normally would be no big deal, except for the construction blocked me from doing the U-turn in my usual spot. Again, no big deal since a figured there would be another U-Turn in a couple hundred feet down the road. Well, about 5 minutes later there was a spot to turn around- great! Now I was heading in the right direction and on my merry way. Well, in about 5 minutes I was expecting to see the construction and to my surprise there was no construction… what road am I on? Come to find out the two main freeways, that run parallel here, actually merge and when I did my U-Turn I ended up on the freeway that I wasn’t at all familiar with. An adventure! I knew I was heading in the right direction, but I didn’t know which exit to take from that freeway. I took an exit that I recognized the number and hoped for the best (hoped that it let me go the direction I needed to, hoped it went through to the road I needed, and I hoped it put me in a place where I recognized where I was). Traffic was pretty slow moving, but it did get me to a semi-familiar area and I was able to get home with no other mishaps. It took me an extra 30 minutes to get home that night, but everything worked out! Blogger would not let me post a couple videos last week, but it worked today. One is of crazy traffic that you see a van off-roadin' and the other is of the baby camel who gave it’s Mom a hug!

People like to go camping here, but it is not like going camping in the mountains! They like to stay in these tents during the cooler months. You'll see these type tents dotting the countryside. Doesn't really look too appealing to me, but to each their own, right?

Other then filing my taxes… nothing too exciting is going on. I did go running outside the other day and enjoyed the absolutely gorgeous weather here, but other than that, I am just trying to keep my head above water with the amount of work I have to do! I can tell you that the days and weeks absolutely fly by when you stay busy!

Here’s hoping everyone has a great week! Love ya!