Well this past week Jenn, Graeme and I were in San Diego. I traveled on business and Jenn thought it was the perfect time for Graeme to meet his Uncle Mike and his Cousins Turner and Van. So let's back up a few days. Once my travel plans were locked in place Jenn and I started talking about whether or not this time made sense or perhaps we should wait until July, when I have to go back to San Diego. The long story short is that we decided to make the trip sooner rather than later. While the decision had merit I figured, well we're about to be back in the funny story business. I had vision of Graeme screaming his head off as we hit solid turbulence then stinking up the back half of the aircraft with a nice deuce in the shorts and sitting there helpless as the fasten seat belt sign laughed at us and our unsuspecting fellow travelers. Well wouldn't you know we had a familiar face in our row, my colleague Carolynn Augur and Graeme was absolutely perfect on all legs of his trans continental travels! It was pretty amazing, he did not let out a peep until we go to the hotel and again not until we got home upon our return. The only commotion he caused was amongst a few flight attendants that fawned over him. Apparently Graeme is already a seasoned traveler, as a result of his "charm" Mommy and Daddy got a free glass of wine on the return trip and had to turn down a second, our flight attendant even offered us to go cups!
The highlight of the trip without a doubt was seeing Graeme interact with his cousins, or more aptly how they interacted with him. Both Turner and Van couldn't wait to meet Graeme and kept telling us he was so cute and asking to hold him and touch him. I have to say makes your heart melt (until Van tells you he doesn't like you then you're back to reality) actually it's mostly heart melting. Turner and Van are really sweet kids and it was really great to see them being so kind and gentle with Graeme. We even had a n adventure at the San Diego County Fair with Graeme and Turner, sadly we forgot the camera, but we had a blast we met up with Ken and Stacey, I ate a huge (and I mean prehistoric like big) smoked turkey leg, Turner had a piece of chocolate covered deep fried bacon and Mike a fried twinkie. It was pretty intense as far as fair food goes.
During the day Jenn had hoped to lounge by the pool, get in a power walk or two and then maybe have an afternoon cocktail. You see after the light we were convinced this was going to be a breeze. Well after the initial meeting with Mike and the boys, we had a pretty regular night's sleep. I woke up, worked out then went off to work at about 7:15. At approx 7:17 I got the first text that Graeme was awake and hungry. Unbeknownst to us this marked the arrival of Mr. Fussbuckets, Graeme's alter-ego that is just one bottomless bucket of fussy, crying, spitting and sweating that scares you to death and will drive you to the end of your wits if you're not in the right frame of mind when he shows up. He is slow to get going sometimes, and that was the case this first morning. About 20 minutes after the first came the second message, he was still fussing, but Jenn felt like it was going to be over soon. Then another 20 minutes and the play by play started as Graeme had Jenn trapped int he room, he just wouldn't let up. Well suffice it to say that this went on and on until just before I came home err back to the hotel. He repeated this pattern on an every other day basis until we left the hotel and made it to Mike's for the weekend.
We had a pretty low key Friday night in preps for Mike's Blow-Out BBQ Bash!!! It wasn't quite that big, but Mike threw a pretty cool summer party. Jenn and I of course had a blast, we met a few of Mike's friends, got to introduce Graeme to Aunt Patty, I had like three Brats (that is always a good day) and we had a chance to swim and play with the boys. Oh yeah and we had lots of beer and wine. Thank God Graeme was a good flyer, the return trip would have been pure hell if he was crying away all flight long. Graeme was well behaved and my hang over that began to subside somewhere over Utah was all over with by the time I finished my McDonald's Southern Fried Sandwich and Fries. McD's fries are sooo damn good!!!!
Anyway that's about it for the week that was. Graeme's first July 4th/Garypolooza Birthday Weekend is next on the agenda, should be a fun time. Pulled Pork, Brisket, Burgers and Dogs how can we go wrong?
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Peace,
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