Bee Larva and Breweries

It has been another whirlwind week. The last few days I have spent at another Lawyer's house. They did not have a computer in their home so I have felt a little unconnected to the world. It was fun to stay with a family with kids. [Lawyer, Joann, Borris (12) and Steven (10). ] They boys were shy but yesterday finally warmed up and were showing off.

This are crazy and I never know where I am going. We have a schedule but they keep adding things to it. I have to admit that I am getting tired of going to visit factories. (Okay - so I was tired of visiting factories after the first week.) They are all the same - big machines that look the same and are the same except they make different parts. It is really boring to hear for the 20th time that they use high pressure water and recycle all the unused metals. I really will need a vacation after this experience. I don't feel like I have been on vacation at all and today it was very hard to put on a smile and seem interested at the Water Treatment Plant and Brewery. So today was a hard day on top of the so exciting tours they tell us that we are not going to get to go home as planned but that we are going to a dinner party = then they tell me that the next Lawyer who is to host me is out of the country. All of my professional experiences are scheduled through my home visits with Lawyers except one group trip to the courthouse later this week. So at lunch I asked the sponsoring club if they could arrange for me to sit next to a Lawyer from his rotary club hosting the party for us tonight if they had one. The GSE committee jumped in and said that they had already scheduled the courthouse visit for me and so it did not need to happen. AHHH! OK enough whining - I'm tired.

There was one awesome visit today - foot massages. We went to a foot massage place where they actually gave us neck and shoulder massages while our feet soaked in warm water. It was the best hour of the day.

Of course I do have new foods to report - earlier this week they served us a dish of fried up Bee Larva. At this point I would do just about anything for a PB&J sandwich. This morning for breakfast I was given a glass of milk and a piece of cheesecake.

I will have to update you on the rest of the past week at a later point but do need to mention that there has been even more ticket drama with Kim. I need to vent and can't really do it here so if you don't want to here it just stop reading here. Since the little passport issue she was not able to secure a seat on the flight with us but got one 3 days earlier on the 28th and had the GSE committee here (or their staff) working to get her off the stand by list and onto a flight on the 30th. Well they are successful but she decides that she wants to skip rotary district conference and changes her ticket back after everyone knows that she got the flight on the 30th. Rude! The Thursday morning we have to waste 2 hours waiting around while she is on hold with Alaska Airlines trying to get the Seattle to Anchorage portion worked out since it is still scheduled for the 31st. First, AHHH, why can she just decide not to attend rotary district conference because she wants to see her family - the rest of us would love to come home and have the weekend to recoup before going to work. Second, rude - that she wastes everyones time when she is taking care of her rescheduling issues (and using the rotary members phones, without using phone cards to take care of this issue). Third, rude - the rotary members have gone out of their way to get her here and on the flight she wanted and then she just changes it back because she doesn't want to sit through a conference.