But no such luck -- today we tooled around to shop for groceries, return the rental car, and I even ran over to the mall to pick up an 8mm-DVD conversion I put in some time back. (Yeah, that mall: "I drive myself to Macy's, picking out shoes" -- and I did get myself a pair of shoes.)
Anyway, the road trip was as harrowing as you'd expect. Lots of backseat fighting, long stretches of lousy radio, and in another sign of our civilization's inexorable decay we saw the total collapse of the traditional "left lane is for passing" road etiquette. I've never experienced so many ass-hats driving below the speed limit in the left lane -- so forget cruise-control, every few miles we were jockeying to break free of a some absurdly-formed logjam of truckers and morons.
It was quite a journey, and so great to see everyone. I'd try to relay the details here but don't even know where to start. Maybe I'll get my bearings once I get some videos loaded. Like this one, featuring Ellexa and Spiderman dancing the Paso Doble: