Real Life

There is something guilty about vacation. It is so easy to leave everything, forget your habits, forget your responsibilities, and be lazy. The real problem comes when you have to come home from vacation. Reality after vacation is a little like a glass of water thrown in your face. The last week has been a little rough, but now our trip is a wonderful memory, we are back into habits, we are fulfilling our responsibilities, and we are hard at work.

Chris immediately turned around to go to Utah to be with his family for his grandfathers funeral on Friday. We are glad we were back and he could go. He said it was like a big family reunion and a very nice weekend. He then had to be in San Francisco Saturday at 9am for a meeting. He then rented a car and drove home Saturday night. In the midst of it all he is catching up at work and busy studying. He has a full plate. He did take the night off on Saturday and we went to see "The Bucket List" with my cousin Holly. We went back to church after being gone for 4 weeks, it felt like we had been gone for months, but it was great to see everyone. Even though monday was a holiday, I still had to work. We woke up to snow starting to fall, by 11am the roads out by us were crazy messy. My "boss" made the decision to close the sales offices, because it was a holiday and snowing, we were likely to get no traffic. It was an unexpected day off, always nice. That is a small summary of the goings on. We are finally not feeling jet lagged, and accepting real life. We are looking forward to our next vacation, whenever that may be.

While Chris was gone, I decided it was my public duty to participate in the caucus on Saturday morning. All I can say is that it was a unique experience. I don't know if anyone has ever experienced one, but it was different than I expected. It was to start at 9am. I got there around 8:30 to find a giant line of people. Good thing: great turn out, Bad thing: took forever. It was held at a high school, so once inside we had to find the room for our precinct. It was fun to be in a room with all the people from your neighborhood (lots of people from our ward), but different to see peoples.....enthusiasm for politics. Our precinct was the largest so we needed to appoint 22 delegates and 22 alternates to go to the county caucus. That took an hour or more. Following that someone explained the delegates role, everyone misunderstood, so wanted to re-vote. That was vetoed, due to time because we still hadn't voted for a presidential candidate. By about 10:35 we were told we needed to wrap up for the next parties caucus. They started handing out ballots, only to run out 1/3 of the way around the room. In the end we were writing our votes on a piece of scratch paper and stuffing them in an envelope. It was a little like voting for student body president. Everyone was frustrated and we didn't accomplish everything we were supposed to. It was a little crazy and not sure our votes even counted, but it made me realize the importance of participating and the blessing of having a free country to voice our opinions. All in all I will be interested to see how things play out this year for this election. I don't consider myself a real political person, this may be the only pollitical post you see from me.