For the longest time, S has wanted to do an escape room with me. I'm not a huge fan, I don't like the time pressure, and to be honest, I'm not that good at puzzles. On this weekend with just us, I agreed to do it.
Last night we talked until almost 2am. After she was asleep, I got a charley horse (usually happens when I'm dehydrated and of course, in the middle of the night). I applied some of her roll-on pain killer she uses for her back. And it burned. Very different than the Biofreeze I usually use. Ouch. I drank a lot of water, stretched, and eventually got to sleep.
I got up at 9:45, tested blood sugar, got coffee, did steps, went to the front desk and asked for late check out for noon which they happily approved. I walked around the hotel and looked at this really cool atrium they have, amazing space, really beautiful at night with the strings of little white lights glowing.
I came back up, drank my coffee and played Pokemon while she snored gently. She kept getting alerts on her phone and ignoring them but eventually rolled over and acknowledged. She saw it was almost 11 and flipped out, asking when check out was. I told her I had handled it.
"You are a ninja if you've been up all this time, I didn't hear you once!" I am a ninja. It's not hard to be quiet, but I'll take the compliment!
After getting dressed an readied up for the day, we walked down to the Mission Escape Room. S picked and booked it for us, and I was worried that she'd walk in and solve it in 2 minutes because she's kind of an expert at these. Her family does them in every city they go to.
My other fear was that we'd fail.
We did not fail but we did have to ask for clues twice. One issue was actually a technical problem, because a piece of equipment was not working right, and we were sort of pissed. We were literally right on it - crushing it, and the thing wouldn't work. So we reported that to the girl, and she said they'd look into adjusting it
Anyway. No harm, no foul, we didn't get eaten by an actual Sasquatch and we had a lot of fun.
Lunch was at a really nice upscale joint called Pearl in downtown Annapolis. The food was fantastic, the staff was lovely. I would have had cocktails, and I know S would have liked that too, but she was driving. After lunch, we walked around downtown and played Pokemon. S bought her son a cute stuffed Ram (Navy mascot) and a really good T-shirt he'll probably have for at least a year and grow into.
We got home, she dropped me off, my house smelled outstanding as Doug had a pot roast going. I did my 5pm steps and decided I wanted a nap. So I took a nap. No guilt. nap. Missed the 6pm steps because I didn't set an alarm and my family was so quiet.
Dinner was delightful. He did all the shopping for thanksgiving yesterday afternoon after I left so we are all set except for beer and wine.
Great weekend. Happy to be home. S said to me that while we had just the best time, she couldn't wait to get home to her new cat for some major snuggles and purrs. "Is that weird?" No honey - I can't wait to get back to ole Toffee!
Digits below the keycards from the hotel, student IDs of famous graduates from the academy.
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exercise: 11/12 hours. Missed 6pm, napping! 16 min. nice leisurely walk around Annapolis, 7200+ steps by bedtime
blood glucose:
9:45am: 206
xpm: n/a since late lunch and no metformin
9:30pm: 191
food:
coffee/water
11am: Jardiance (I somehow had 4 of those, and none of the metformin)
2pm: pork egg roll appetizer; Fried chicken on mixed greens salad w/goat cheese & slivered pears; risotto, broiled Brussels sprouts, a few spoonfuls of S's pot de creme dessert; 2 beers
4:30pm: metformin
7pm: pot roast
8:30pm: tea w/Geoff
9:30pm: Metformin
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