Reality Cabin

Oh how we will remember this trip to Las Vegas NM.  Not just for the pure redneck fun that was had by bringing up our 4 wheelers and our friends bringing up their razors and not for all the dirty looks and screaming and yelling we got from all the neighbors when we rode our toys around because the cabin was in a gated community on a golf course in the woods....which had no paved roads.  We will remember it as the time we squeezed 3 families for a total of 18 people into a 1,500 square foot cabin. 

How did we come to this cabin?  Our friend has a client that owns this cabin.  This person owes our friend money so apparently over sold the awesomeness of said cabin.  Isn't that always the case?  We were told that we were going to a 5,000 square foot cabin that was worth 1 million.....  We didn't know what the set up was going to be when we got there but figured there would be enough room to accommodate everyone that was invited..... Yea, not so much.  Completely delusional or pathological. There were 3 tiny bedrooms and hardly enough floor space to put all the kids.  So little floor space that Nate and our 2 boys ended up sleeping outside under the stars.  The cabin itself was no marvel to behold with an obvious "rustic" element to it and it was a duplex and so it was attached to another unit.  The attached neighbor must have thought Armageddon had hit when we arrived and tried to squeeze all those loud crazy people in next to them.

What trip could I be on that wouldn't include some kind of tragedy?   It's just not likely.  I didn't think we were going on this weekend trip until we actually left so in my haste I left all my bathroom needs on the counter in the house.  No contacts, no glasses, no nothin!  Strike 1.  Replaced a bunch of forgotten items at the store when we got into town and then headed over to the "palace."  As you heard Nate and boys slept outside. Strike 2.  The next morning my eyes were hurting pretty badly because of my allergies and having to sleep in my contacts.  With kids sleeping on every avail floor space and my boys sleeping outside... if something happened in the middle of the night I wanted to be able to see.  So because I had no glasses with me I left my contacts in.   I decided to take them out and rinse them off in the morning which turned out to be a fatal error.  For the first time in years I ripped a contact.  Right in half!  My prescription is -5.50.  Which means that I am for all intents and purposes.  Blind.  Strike 3.  I had resined myself to laying in the bed reading a book with one eye while the kids went out and had some dirt filled fun because I could not see a thing even with 1 contact in.  Luckily my friend Rachel was there and had a spare contact with her in case of emergencies that was a -4.25.  Luckily our eyeballs were similar in shape and the contact fit and I was able to see considerably better.  My vision still wasn't the best but I was able to play with everyone and have fun until we left right after lunch because no one was happy with the way the whole cabin adventure had gone down.  

On the way home I had myself a nice pounding headache from the vision problems and dramatically reveled that it was time to have my eyes lasered dag gone it!  We cleaned all the dust and dirt off and ditched the kids and went out to dinner and a movie.  A movie that was horrible, by the way, but would you expect anything less when I'm around???  The kids had a blast though and didn't know or care that the cabin was too small and the neighbors were getting ready to haul us all off to jail.  These are the experiences memories are made of.  :0)  

p.s.  On a extremely funny side note.... I was convinced there was a bear hanging around outside our cabin because I kept getting woken up by "bear" noises.  Turns out it was Rachel's husband snoring so loudly that the sound was going out his window and into mine.  She worried that we had been kept up all night by his snoring.  Nope didn't hear him at all just a bear hanging around outside. Hilarious!!! lol