Wednesday I headed to Adventureland by myself - I had bought a reduced price admission ticket a month ago and wanted to use it before the season was over. Evidently it's $7.00 to park - normally - but because the Wave Pool had closed during the week, parking was free and so was fountain pop - awesome. I made myself ride The Inverter and Sidewinder. I almost got myself to ride the Sure Shot but not quite. I had dared myself to ride the Sure Shot before turning 40 and did it - but another ten years and just couldn't do it. One ride I couldn't ride as a single - so I met a new friend with the lady that rode with me. We talked about how she was not doing well with turning 50 in a couple of weeks with me telling her 50 is only a number. Then she shared some insight about online dating..... I also rode a ride that I hadn't riden for a long time - at any amusement park - Raging River. I figured it would be warm enough, that if I got wet enough, I'd dry out fairly quickly. Well - my five new friends I met on that ride - the older man said I must live too right because I barely got wet - fine by me :)
When I got home, my handy guy had almost finished with placing the 7 1/2 ton of river rock in my back yard that had been delivered the day before. Enjoy some before, during and finished pictures of my back yard below.
Then Thursday morning, bright and early, the installer from Bath Fitters was here ready to tear out my old shower that had a vertical crack in the back panel which was like 15+ inches long - the crack had been there for YEARS. Do some repair work to the pipes - now they are all copper all the way through. And per code I have the valve dealie to keep me from getting scalded if I'm showering and someone flushes the toilet. They say the first day of installation is a long day and could run into a second day - just to be safe. The kid that did my install was out of the house by 4:30 and d-o-n-e with everything. Check out some "old" and "new" pictures of the showers below. The old shower had faded over time - it had been bright white.
Thursday I had been needing to use the bathroom a lot more often than I normally did. Around 9:00 p.m. I happened to look in the stool after going #1 and saw blood. Not good - so I called Mercy Nurse and she said I had a urinary tract infection. My first ever. Mercy Nurse asked if I had a fever, chills, pain, headache - nope, nope, nope, and nope. But within 30 minutes of that phone call I got THE worst case of chills I had ever had in my life. I could not get warm no matter how small I made myself under the covers. And I got achy every where. I did say to God once that I thought I'd almost be better off meeting him, seeing Mike, Mom and everyone else to have the pain stop. Friday a.m. I was at my doctor's office getting medicine - two types of pills. The doc did warn me that one pill would turn my urine hazmat/fluorescent orange - and that it did. Holy cow.
This morning after having Waves craft (K-3rd grade) at church, it was off to the Iowa State Fair for my third time with Heather and Rigo Martinez and their two kids Victoria and Noah. We really enjoyed ourselves in the horse barn - got to see a few big boys and girls - enjoy the pix below.
This picture cracked me up with the way the horse has its head/neck cranked around to see what's going on outside the trailer - and check out the little one in the stall next to the other side.
Beautiful Percheron!
If I could have a horse it would be an Appaloosa marked pretty close to how this horse is marked - but with black spots instead of brown.
The giant moose of chocolate!!!
Check out my niece Chrissy and her new buddy Cy from our Annual McFall Day :)
Victoria and I got "snapped" by Victoria's mom Heather with the big horsie in the background.
And this is what I came home to - Cruz destructionville. Look at the couch closely - you will see poor Butler on it. The large white "blanket" in the foreground is a crib blanket that was under Butler along with his piddle pad - Cruz had some how gotten both out from under him along with messing up one of the cushions on the couch - poor, old guy. And the pink "blankie" by the couch had been on Butler to help him stay warm. I don't think there is enough "bahhhhing" in the world to do to Cruz for this.
