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Segways are AWESOME!

Our Segway tour of downtown Austin yesterday was so much fun. It was a little hard at first, just to figure out your balance on how to not over-compensate with your balance but we all were pros after a brief practice.

Our tour guide took us on a 2+ hour tour; we were able to see quite a bit of the sights but obviously the highlight was successfully riding the Segways. My co-worker has tons of pictures that I’ll be able to post once she gets home and shares them with me.

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Only one more sleeps til I get to see my baby. It is going to be tough to wait until after her naptime to pick her up at daycare…I certainly don’t want the wrath of the daycare ladies if I disrupt 10 sleeping little kids!

Hurricane Ike is heading directly towards Texas but I think (hope?) Austin is far enough inland that it won’t affect my departure early tomorrow morning. I hope my travel day is better than Sunday because I don’t want to feel crummy when I am re-bonding with my baby tomorrow afternoon.

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Training is now over. My bag is all packed except for my toiletries. I am ready to come home. Mallory is safely in the hands of Miss Cheri and will have a great time, that I am sure. Cheri’s kids were fighting over where baby Mallory was going to sleep tonight. I guess that at first she didn’t want to leave daycare but when Miss Cheri asked her if she wanted to go see Bark-bark (their dog), Mallory came running and was ready to go.

Not much else to report. It is HOT here in Austin and I have yet to get in the pool. I have been enjoying my alone time but as I said above, I am ready to come home…just in time to leave my baby again so I can go to the football game in South Bend on Saturday. I debated taking her with me but there is a chance of rain and that would make it pretty miserable for her to sit through. Plus, I think the football team will need all of my attention and lucky finger-crossing for this game. She will get to spend the day with Yaya and the evening with Aunt Emy, but not until I get my fill of Mallory hugs and kisses and laughs and giggles on Friday. I already told Rick that she is sleeping in bed with me on Friday night.

God I can’t wait to see her.

PS – I do miss Rick & Cooper too.