Memorial Day and more dental goodness
Just back in from a few days away in Idaho at Suzanna's lake house... It's amazing how nice it is to get away where there's not really any schedule or required things to do or places to be. Unfortunately I realized too late that I had forgotten my camera, so no pics from me. Fun facts from the trip:
- Lake Pend Oreille really seems to be missing some punctuation.
- The lake is so deep apparently submarines are tested at the lake.
- Lake water in the end of May is COLD. And I can say this not having actually jumped into the lake - only just stepped a few feet in and then watched Hal, Aaron, Suzanna and Joelle shivering in the water. With Aaron repeating “it's cold it's cold it's cold“ the entire time he was in the water. :)
- There's a castle for sale nearby! check out: http://www.castlemagic.com/castlesalecolor.html How cool is that?!?!?!?
- Around dusk, gnats and other small bugs get an incredibly suicidal tendency. At one point I seriously thought it was raining due to the sound and number of bugs hitting the windshield.
- Memorial Day traffic sucks. About 90 miles from Seattle on the way back I90 turned into rush hour and slowed to stop-and-go for about 10-15 miles. It could have been worse though - there was a 3-person fatality wreck on I-5 south during the same timespan...
And first day back, what do I do but celebrate the return to work by going to the dentist... I had a regular cleaning a week or so ago and they saw a couple cavities that needed fillings. It wasn't a huge suprise because the last cleaning they mentioned that a couple cavities were starting up and when I got the wisdom teeth pulled a little while back, the dentist mentioned them as well. But a 8:20am appointment to get your teeth drilled isn't really a nice way to step back from a holiday. One thing I used for the first time during the appointment was the “movie googles” - basically it's hooked up to some headphones and has little screens so that only you see and hear the movie that's playing. This is really cool, but doesn't quite work if you're tilted back so that someone can do some work in your mouth. Probably for something like an airplane ride it'd work much better since you'd have your head up...
The important safety/health tip of the day is to brush and floss regularly.