Me, post-shuttle launch!
Hello All! It's been a while since I last blogged, but here is the update! It's certainly been an eventful few weeks!
We have a boat!! (Well, we think we do!) We have a boat in escrow up in Maryland and after a month of negotiations about this, that, and the other it looks like we're finally getting to head up this week to complete a sea trial!!! I'll let you know as soon as we finish if this is the boat for us--and I'll post pictures then too!
We headed down to Cape Canaveral about a week an a half ago to see the launch of the Shuttle Discovery. Patrick's friend Leandro works at NASA and he got us VIP launch passes ("Excuse me no pictures, VIPs coming through" haha). We got to watch the launch from the Saturn V building and it was incredible! This is the second time I've been to NASA, and each time I go, I think it's more for P's enjoyment than mine but I always have a great time. Maybe I'm a space nerd after all!
blast-off! going...
going....
gone!!!!
In other news, Patrick and I (who have so far managed to avoid injury since leaving Hawai`i) finally have another grand, somewhat weird, injury related story to share with you all.
Patrick got bit by a raccoon.
While we were playing putt putt mini golf.
While giving me a kiss.
We were playing mini golf one evening and between holes 9 & 10, he leaned over to give me a kiss. He said he felt a pressure on his foot, and thought it was me standing on him. He then felt little sharp pokes and thought my toenails were too long (ummm, eww, whose toenails are EVER that long?!?!?!) and then he felt a crazy sharp bite on the top of his foot--he though a snake bit him initially (ummm, yeah he's been bitten by a snake too!!!), he jumped back and there was a big ol' raccoon running off!!! We thought maybe it was just a scratch but there was a disgusting amount o' saliva on his foot....we tried cleaning it with the 1st aid kit at the golf course, but then headed to an urgent care center, who promptly sent us over to an ER....he has to go through rabies treatment because it was an unprovoked attack and apparently, there has been an increase in rabid raccoons found in the area...
Ok, the circumstances of the bite are hilarious but the treatment for rabies is AWFUL. The nurses gave him about 20 injections of the initial globulin (a very thick corn syrup like solution around the rabies site) and he now needs to get a vaccination shot every few of days for the next month to protect him against rabies. It's horrible! But, Patrick is a certified bad ass, and is a trooper!
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