Seven Days to Italy!

A stairway in Perugia, Umbria, Italy

Well I’m off to do a little weekend work, today.  I have a three-day work project that will move along quite nicely if I start it on a Sunday, and this will free up my evenings next week to prepare for the upcoming trip.  The Hubby and I need to

• Clean the house.
• Book a hostel room for our one night in Amsterdam.
• Pick out seats on the plane.
• Pack, unpack, strategically re-pack.
• Shop for anything else that didn’t make it into the first two-packings.
• Bemoan the amount of space available in the luggage.
• Drop the cat and dog off with the in-laws so they can, you know, eat for the two weeks we’ll be out of town.
• Do some last-minute reading in the tour guides.
• Try not to go insane from giddy excitement.

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Tonight I hang out with Ashley.  We’re going hiking (much to her disappoint…hiking is just so…free…I mean, how can we have fun if we’re not spending any money???) and having a picnic dinner in the woods.  Fun! I think I may take her to Caponi Art Park in Eagan, MN.  Caponi is a huge, forested area of land filled with sculptures and walking trails, and tonight they’re having a special event: “Dakota Valley Summer Pops Orchestra presents A Patriotic Festival”.

Could be fun!

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Sunday Comic Videos!

If you have somehow not seen this short video of Will Ferrell and his landlord, Pearl, do do do treat yourself!

The Landlord <—click here!

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Also, if you have seen that gooey, cheesy, horrible meaning-of-life Nicholas Cage/Tea Leoni movie, The Family Man, you may appreciate this mash-up.  I thought it was hilarious, but I haven’t had coffee yet this morning, so who knows?