April 13th and 14th, 2011 - 124th and 125th Days

Wednesday was clean day in preparation for Kaylee coming home.  We were all so excited, that it was pretty  easy to be nice to everyone, but I still find I'm a little tense for some reason.  Could it be that my daughter is getting married in less than a week?  No, that's probably not it.   So we cleaned and cleaned and cleaned some more.  I dusted, and dusted, and then dusted after I was done dusting.  Every time I dust I think of the fact that dust is made up of dead skin cells, dried feces and dessicated corpses of dust mites!  Great thought, huh?   Well, I think I wiped out my fare share of dessicated corpses Wednesday night, I'll tell you that!  I'm sure the live dust mites were running in fear as the giant bald guy with the can of funiture polish and the humongous rag was moving in for the kill!

Thursday was an awesome day!  The entire day until 5:00 felt like it was a week long, however.  We took the family and drove down to Las Vegas to pick her up.  Logan couldn't come, because his soccer coach has a rule--you miss practice the day before a game, you don't play the next day.    When Kaylee got off the plane, hugs and tears were flying like dessicated dust mite corpses!   It was so great to see her..  She had been up for 24 hours, so she was very tired, but she wanted to eat American food so we took her to Cafe Rio and she ate an ENTIRE pork salad!  Kaylee eating an entire pork salad is akin to the normal person eating an entire cow!  She must have been hungry.  I've heard the Englishmen don't have very good food.  That's why everyone says, "I'd rather eat an American rock then an English steak!"  (I'm not sure that everyone actually says that, but I'm sure it's true nonetheless).   In fact, Kaylee kind of proved it when she engulfed the pork salad.  Maybe the saying should be, "I'd rather eat an American pork salad than English liver." (P.S. Kaylee wasn't so fond of the liver they served her).

When we got home, Kaylee gave us our presents.  She gave Hunter a very cool leather soccer ball, Logan an English hat, Amber and Mitch some noodles from Italy, Amber some lingerie, Nicole a hat, and me some chocolate.  However, she also gave me something else, and it was the best present.  For the last three months she's been taking pictures of "NO Cyclists" signs all across Europe.  Then, she put it to music and had a really cute message at the end.  It meant a lot to me that she would put that much effort into something for me.  It's been so fun to have Kaylee back home!