Road Trip!

Each year K and I try to go on a vacation. Now, this vacation might just be a few days, but it's still away to get away from work (in K's case) or the house in general. This year we had been pretty set on just driving a couple hours to get to Cincinnati and exploring the city. However! K's co-worker had recently taken a trip to Nashville, TN and bragged it up big time. K was in awe of the cool sounding bars and general country atmosphere. So we threw the plans for Cinci in the trash and decided to venture to Nashville instead.

A few days before we left, we changed our plans a little bit more and decided that, while the city would be our main goal, we also wanted to do some general exploring. On the way down we stopped at a rest stop outside of Louisville, KY and found some super cool looking brochures for places in KY. One of which was the Jim Beam distillery. We plugged its address in the GPS and guess what? It was about 5 mins away from our rest stop! How cool was that? So we went there and also a really cool cave, The Lost River cave. You could literally take a pontoon boat ride through this cave. And the neatest part? Back in the 20's the enterance to the cave was actually a night club. People had put in a bar, hung a large chandalier, and put in a concrete floor. They said now this place is not only used for tours, but also parties and weddings. Super awesome.

After arriving in Nashville, we decided to take a dinner cruise and then make our way to the Jack Daniels distillery in Linchburg, TN. I must say, that distillery's tour was free and awesome. Totally worth the drive. The dinner cruise was eh....a bit hokey but worth the experience. I must say however, we were shocked at the price of the drinks on board the boat. It was probably the most expensive beer Ken has ever had and for me, the most priciest bottle of water ever!

On our way home we stopped at Mammoth Cave for a 2 hr cave tour and then found the coolest little park. This park had a really big slide down a huge hill, a chair lift, bumper boats, horse rides, etc. Ken tried out the slide while I rode the chair lift. Pretty cool!

The Delightful Place (a.k.a. Walgreen's Pharmacy)

As wrote in my last post, my previous cycle was not successful. Obviously, this meant I needed to reorder my HCG. And this, my friends, was not something I was looking forward to! I had done a bit of research and discovered that it appeared that the Walgreen's pharmacy had my meds for significantly less than the other place did. But I learned my lesson folks: don't take anything for granted! Especially fertility drugs!
So I did what any sane person wanting to save money would do: called Walgreen's! And yes, they had my drugs for Less Than Half of what I paid for the last round. You can imagine the shock I felt when I heard this. Now, mind you, this is not with help from insurance. But heck, I would rather pay more than go through the trials and tribulations of using their "speciality pharmacy" and discovering in the end that they wouldn't have paid for it anyway.
I had my friendly nurse call in the script and soon Walgreen's called to set up my order. I got it two days later. Upon opening the package I discovered the following:

• The Dr. placed a refill on the script! Yay, no more calling the Dr. to get him to call in my order!
• Paperwork describing how to take the drug, why some people take it, and possible side effects (Note: This was not included in the last order and I fruitlessly looked up HCG online. And discovered that the majority of the online world is taking it for weight loss. Not helpful!)
• Small shots! TEN of them! And they're already assembled! Woot!

Just as my Dr. has earned the term Dr. Delightful, in my book, the Walgreen's Pharmacy has earned the term: The Delightful Place.

How do you open this?!?!

I will preface this post by informing you that I'm not pregnant this cycle. You'll need to know this so you won't think bad of me for what I'm going to tell you next!

Alright, so yesterday was a hard day because well, I found out that this cycle was indeed not the cycle we had been waiting for. However! One must look on the bright side and relish in all of the things that can't be done if one is pregnant. Such as drink caffeine and sip yummy wine. So, that's what I did today. I stopped by the good ole' MacDo and picked up a caramel frappe (I highly recommend...especially if you have sworn off caffeine for the past 4 weeks).

And that brings us to tonight. We've had a bottle of wine in the fridge that had been waiting for such an occasion. So, what better night to open it than tonight? Except the little peely strip meant to get the foil off the top would.not.come.off. I picked. I peeled. I picked some more. And then I said, heck with it! And went to get our Houdini bottle opener. I went through all the proper steps, but instead of hearing the reassuring "pop!" of the cork I hear.....nothing. Hmmm. That's odd. And then I try again. Nuthin'.

Upon further investigation I realize that oh no, there's not a cork. It's a SCREW ON CAP. Of course the bottle opener wouldn't work on a screw on cap! (As I tell this story to K his reaction was: "Oh honey, you've been away from the booze too long!")

One would presume that once I realized how my bottle of wine was capped I would be able to open said bottle, right? Ummmm....think again! I twisted. I turned. I tried to pick the foil cap off. I twisted some more. After about 5 minutes (no joke) I was finally able to get the cap off.

Jeesh, it was a lot of work for one glass of wine! But it was worth it.