Vacation: Day 2

Friday was my last day of work for 10 WHOLE DAYS!!!!! Saturday I spent packing and cleaning. Sunday--yesterday, I guess--we (Me, Derek, Heather, Grandma Bev, Ali and her friend Robbie) drove to GF, stopped to see April and had a bonus meeting with Karissa! Then Heather and I went to see Brian at the hospital. He's doing much better now; his infection seems to be responding to all the antibiotics, he has a little bit more color now, and they have put in a new temporary dialysis catheter in his shoulder. Now he just needs to start eating some more and I think he'd be able to come home by the end of the week! After that we drove on to Fargo. Heather, Ali, Robbie, and I went to the Avenged Sevenfold/Buckcherry concert at the Fargodome. It was pretty good. The first band was Saving Able of which I only knew a couple of songs. The second was Shinedown, and I didn't care too much for them. They seemed to be trying too hard to be "hard" rock, but I liked the lighting. They were obnoxiously loud and aside from the couple of songs that I knew, couldn't wait for them to be done. The third was Avenged Sevenfold and they were pretty good. I like quite a few of their songs! They were very entertaining! Lots of guitar solos and jumping around! The last was Buckcherry and they confirmed to me that all their songs sound the same. And the lead singer is disgustingly skinny....EEEWWWW! We left after about 6 songs so we could beat the traffic cuz Derek had to come and pick us up. We putzed around until 1am and then took a cab to the Amtrak station. We waited there for an hour (it was actually on time) and got on at 2am. It was kinda weird since I had never been on it before! It would have been more fun if we could have found the observation car (the one that has movies playing and you can stay up and be loud), but I'm kinda glad we stayed on a sleeping car. I was able to sleep a little bit even though the chairs were very uncomfortable and it was kinda cold. A blanket and pillow would have made it a lot more comfortable. We ended up getting into Minneapolis at 6:30am--30 minutes earlier than scheduled! We took a cab from the train station to the Cambria Suites hotel..which is absolutely amazing! We checked out the hotel, had their hot breakfast buffet, and I made some more travel plans before taking a nap. We got up around 3pm and took the FREE hotel shuttle to the Mall of America. I found a really cute pencil skirt from Torrid. It's red and black (like that's a big surprise)! I think I'm gonna wear it to the Big John Bates concert on Nov. 29th in Fargo! So I'm just sitting in the lobby of the hotel, checking all my messages and blogging. I'm ready to go back to bed. We have be up by 4:30am to get ready. We'll take the FREE hotel shuttle to the airport at 5:30am and our flight leaves at 7:25am. I've already got my Dramamine in my purse!! ;-) We'll be in Orlando by 11:30am. We'll pick up a rental car at the airport and drive 5 hours to Chipley, FL. So hopefully the hotel we stay at tomorrow will have a computer and I can update you again! Later!!