We recently returned from a week long vacation that started in Sea World for Christmas day, and ended all over California. Multiple locations were visited, much fun was had. Each day, adventures were had and pictures were taken. To capture these, I tried to summarize the day with pics in a blog, to record these adventures for ourselves mainly, as well as for friends and family. If you missed any of them, they are listed below.
While on our trip, I tried to update Facebook with as many status updates as possible, so that those following the trip could keep up. I did do some twitter updates, but since that crowd is typically work related, I refrained from updating on twitter as much about personal matters. Thus, Facebook provided the majority of the status updates. I had been talking about the trip for a bit prior to its actual departure, and continued while vacationing. At the end of the trip, I had totaled 40 updates via Facebook. Only 8 of these were statuses about blog postings. With these posts, other folks added over 72+ comments or likes to my updates. Out of interest, I summarized these additions to my Facebook feed. 33 distinct people made comments with 52 total comments. 14 distinct people flagged my statuses as statuses they 'like', with 22 total 'likes' having been logged. 40 distinct people made comments or 'likes' to my statuses. I wish I knew how many people were actually following the updates.
So, how many more summaries, totals and the such are there?
- new tires purchased to make the trip possible - 4
- days sleeping away from home - 8
- distinct hotels - 5
- 1 day we were in 4 distinct states
- 9 state lines were crosses (some multiple times)
- low temperature - 13 degrees
- high temperature - 73 degrees
- days above 60 degrees - 5
- days above 30 degrees - all of them
- miles travelled - 1900
- visits to In N Out - 1
- cheapest meal for family of 5 - $29
- most expensive meal - $100
- most spent on food in 1 day - $100 (same as above day)
- Argentine restaurants visited - 1 (above as well)
- longest stretch in the car - 7 hours
- latest arrival to a hotel - 12:00am
- earliest arrival to a hotel - 7:00pm
- days without my trusty pillow - 4
- new pillow purchases while on trip - 1
- days with more than 1 hour travel - 6
- hours of car travel - 30
- extra hours of car travel due to traffic - 3
- visits to gas stations - 5
- visits to the ocean - 5
- opportunities to pet a dolphin - 5
- actual times petting a dolphin - 1
- animal toys purchased to replace long lost toy - 1
- animals purchased for Trey to remember Sea World - 40+
- number of days Trey was homesick - 1
- nights in bed and asleep before midnight - 2
- mornings we woke up earlier than 9am - 1
- consecutive breakfasts with biscuits and gravy for Kylie - 3
- meals we skipped - 4.5
- days we ate on any kind of schedule - 0
- days we actually had time to exercise and actually exercised - 1
- movies watched - 1 + how ever many the kids watched while in back seat
- electronic devices to entertain the kids - 5
- pops purchased to drink while driving - too many to count
- times one kid got in trouble for messing with another kid - fewer than expected
- times we had to stop and do laundry to have enough clothes for rest of trip - 1
- hot fudge sundaes eaten - 0
- coconuts drained, opened and shared for first time - 1
- cemetaries visited - 2
- grave sights visited - 5
- grandparent graves visited - 4
- graves of beloved animals (Pete) visited - 1
- quantity of pictures and video taken - 1300+
- pictures taken - 1200+
- size of digital media created - almost 10G
- number of people happy to be home, missing the warmth of the trip, full of good memories from this awesome adventure - 5
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