9:34 pm, Colby, Kansas – as I sit in our Sleep Inn (ha ha), where a friendly, cigarette-smoking biker held the door for me while I wrestled the collapsable dog bed through it, I am remembering our earlier-in-the-day awesome activities (referenced in the last post).
Specifically, Awesome Wife got rid of the dogs for half a day and found us the Alpine Slide and related activities.
(That link isn’t my own video, btw. If you want to know what my trip down the mountain was like, watch that video and add The Empress screaming: “Faster, Daddy! FASTER! HAAHHAHAHHAAHAHAH! Pass Mommy! Go FASTER! Don’t slow down! YAY! Bye Mommy! BYE!”)
Awesome Wife caught up at the end. We’ll call it a tie.
It wasn’t the luge, but I figured it was close enough for government work. Until we went on “The Coaster,” which is like the Alpine Slide – if the Alpine Slide took the blue pill and got modemed into the Matrix. Individual, streamlined, hi-end cars with breaks for each hand, sliding on stainless steel, CAD-modeled tubular tracks. Totally sick.
I don’t think I want the Empress to see Top Gun anytime soon – for a whole lot of reasons aside from a need for speed.
Next, the kids went zip lining, and rope walking. We cheered – and watched a giant thunderstorm come in. We ate lunch on the mountain while it poured, bused down, got the dogs and got on the road – and eventually got stuck in traffic.
Looking forward to getting to our Farm Stay, and enjoying sea-level air.
This is a lot of farmland. If this climate change thing plays through and it turns back into a dust bowl…man, we are screwed.
But for now, I’m typing this while running the water and drinking from plastic bottles of the stuff, while using all the towels.
Kidding.
Franklinsanity 
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