Jamaica's outta the question...

... so I guess we'll start looking into Clearwater. The boys have made it known that they prefer Florida beaches to Myrtle Beach. Jamaica is going to be out of our price range, so Shonta finally resigned herself to the disappointment of not going there this year. I think Clearwater will be great though. I assume the Panama City regulars will migrate on over, so we should know a lot of people there. I actually had Myrtle as my first choice, as it's only a 4-4.5 hour drive from here. It's also close to my family, but I can't complain about the opportunity to hit Florida in the fall... I'd like to find a condo that's occupied by brethren primarily, but that might be a little hard to do. If we do make it there, I've got to take the kids to Busch Gardens in Tampa (OK, I really want to go back for myself, but they'll definitely enjoy it).

I think I'll hit up Sam's today. Nothing like buying food in bulk. And Pampers. Here in the south ALL disposable diapers are called Pampers, be they Luvs, Huggies, or generic store brands. Is that a southern thing?

Perhaps someone out there can tell me how we're going to pull off all of our projected trips over the next two months - Kansas City in July, Bakersfield in July, Cincinnati sometime this summer, and the parents in two weeks? Donations are welcome - particularly if you have a van you're trying to write off as a charitable contribution.

One thing this blog has done is let me know that I'm not gonna be a writer when I grow up.

And guess who's leading songs for the second week in a row? No, the fact that the Milliches will be driving down from HQ won't make me even more nervous. Nope, not at all. I guess I should get with the piccolo player sometime and see what songs he's picked out for tomorrow. I'm utterly convinced now that Spokesman Club was a trap. An enjoyable trap, but a trap nonetheless.