I'm too old to get up at 4:45.......

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Ola ya'll ,


Yesterday I actually got to go on a field trip. Hubby had to go to a meeting in a town called Warwick. I got to tag along.


We had to get up at 4:45 and leave by 6 for our two and a half hour drive. Let me remind you ...my husbands driving is horrifying. Well, 2 and a
half hours of it ,going 90 miles an hour in traffic, at the crack of dawn ....was not exactly relaxing.


We arrive at 8:30 and he drops me off in the town of Leamington Spa. It's freezing cold out and nothing is open yet.

Damn, why didn't I bring any gloves!?


I finally find a drug store that's open and kill half an hour in there.






By 11 I have been to all the thrift stores, all through 2 malls and several expensive department stores.


I hop on the bus to Warwick, get off in the towne center and start walking around there.I have walked for miles by now and I'm starving too.















This is how one "goes out to lunch " over here. You find a fish and chips shop. You order a diet coke and a "portion of chips"
All of this cost's about 2 pounds.

They give you enough chips to feed a whole family.Those things are covered in salty goodness. (this serves a secondary purpose of swelling you up with fluid retention so you don't have to worry about trying to find a place to go pee) Because there ISN'T one.
Then you have to go outside and find someplace to sit and eat them. You could never eat all of them.





I had to eat mine sitting on the edge of a cold concrete planter.
Gah!


Then I went to all the thrift stores in Warwick and some gift shops.


I found absolutely NOTHING to buy all day , except some chapstick and some wart remover (that would be for hubby, not me)











Warwick is built on hills.
My legs were feeling the burn.












Some cute doors around there.

I am starting to get really tired and cold. I wish there was some indoor place to just sit and smoke. No such thing exists.



















I took a few pictures and walked and walked some more.

Went in a couple antique stores. Didn't find anything (affordable)



















Hubby finally came and picked me up. As soon as I got in the car I could barely keep my eyes open. In spite of his driving I took a nap . Wishing I could sleep the entire way home :)



It gets dark around 4 P.M.
and there was some truck turned over on the freeway so we had to take a 40 minute long detour .....






....on top of the 2 and a half hour drive. UGH!

I thought we were never going to get home.


And I must say ,I actually felt sorry for hubby. He has to make this trip about every week. :(

Next time, I think I'll stay home.



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So close and yet so far.........




There is a moth in that light fixture.
















Cavuto intently guards his prey ,while wondering if he should jump into the light.













He decides not to risk the jump and becomes exhausted waiting for the moth to fly into his waiting maw.




Happy whoopin' Tuesday peeps!