You know, I hardly ever get truly exhausted unless I'm ill, or can't get at least 5 hours of sleep for a few nights in a row. I've been sort of hyper and scattered my whole life. Our family vacations have always been pretty packed, because we don't go places that often, so we want to see as much as we can while we're there. When R and I went to DC when Jesse was 3, we were only there for 3 1/2 days and half of that at a conference, but we still managed to see a LOT of things by the simple expedient of never resting. It's weird, you'd think a fat chick like me would be lazy, but I don't think I am. I like to keep busy.

My Mom couldn't even watch the kids climb through those highest wire slinkys. I'm mildly acrophobic, but I don't have a problem watching them do it, and in fact, I managed to climb through all of them except the very top one by virtue of just not looking down. I got halfway up the top one and when it went horizontal instead of vertical, I started losing my flip flops and had to back down cause I didn't have an extra hand to carry them and climb too. I wish I could organize a trip for all my friends with kids to go at once.