Saludos de Laurel!

That's Greetings from Laurel. I don't know Spanish and apparently, I'm very good at overlooking it when my eyes are only drawn to the pretty pictures on postcards. See, last week when I was at Epcot, I bought some postcards and sent one to my darling husband. I picked one that had 4 scenes - Epcot, Mickey, some tree and Cinderella's castle. John must have had a big laugh when he got the card, as he said he thought I sent the Spanish card as a joke. When I got home, he asked about it. I had no idea and he showed me the front of the postcard. The only thing I could do was laugh at myself. Is it more comical that he thought I sent it to be funny or that I had no idea I picked up, not one but TWO, cards in Spanish?

So John found out today the reason he's been so tired, achy, and feverish is he has Mono, just as Mark had suggested. The only cure for Mono is stress-free rest and lots of it. Seeing as John's job requires lots of physical labor, he's been given orders by the doctor to take the rest of this week and next week off. He may be off the following week too! We talked about how this may affect beach week, but Mono isn't a contagious disease unless you're swapping saliva with someone. Hopefully, he'll be well by then!

Saturday, I left John to fend for himself and went to a housewarming party at Shaun (aka Jake) and Lena's. They recently moved to a townhouse about 6.5 miles north of our house. Lots of great food and fun, although it was 100 degrees and humid that day. I somehow managed to escape the party without any mosquito bites!

I leave you with this picture of me at the Coca-Cola Museum in Atlanta:


Coca-Cola Polar Bear

It was pretty interesting and I made sure to drink $9 worth of free soda samples to get the most out of the admission price. They had flavored sodas from all over the world. Some were yummy, some just plain weird. I tried an Orange Coke from Germany (I think) and the Watermelon soda from China wasn't bad. My favorite was the Lychee soda... from Thailand, of course! I wonder if you can get it at the Thai Market. I'll have to scope it out next time I go there for pork skewers and sticky rice!

Message to Bill C of DE: Come down and visit us while you're still unemployed!!! Maybe we can go to a Nat's game and get you some skewers to take home.

Till next time, folks...