on this Friday at the end of July

I'm so excited about our trip to PEI tomorrow, and for so many reasons:

• Nick and I get to go back to our very favorite place on earth
• We can't wait to see Ellen, Pam and Howard and we're psyched to meet Joanne, Howard's fiancee
• weather permitting we can ride
• we'll see the work that's been done since we left; the dining room and all the guest rooms are finished (to see a before and after view of the master bedroom look at http://movingdesignz.blogspot.com/2009/07/summer-days.html
• we'll get away from the news bubble and spend a week outside the reach of birthers, bigots and beer
• we won't hear about Glen Beck (heinous and either unstable or playing the role of someone unstable) or Lou Dobbs (he should be ashamed)
  
• Holly will have her first kennel experience; Nick drops her off today at a place he's used before that he is very happy with. Lots of doggie play dates and they can start and sustain a barking chain (I still remember that phrase from the animated "101 Dalmatians"
• we'll miss the insane Republican campaign to demonize Obama's health care plan -- the way they're stoking fear is both familiar and disturbing (the stuff about killing old people is just beyond the pale)
• no makeup for a week
• we have room enough for everyone and Susan did a spectacular job on the bedrooms (as she did with everything) and I'm really proud of the way everything looks
• the most stressful thing we'll do is figure out what we're doing for dinner, and what our cycling route should be
• PEI PEI PEI