MapQuest sucks.

Yesterday my co-worker Lori and I were going to my boss's retirement party after work. We had seemingly simple directions, courtesy of MapQuest. The drive should've taken us about 15-20 minutes in the afternoon traffic.

(Note: I said should have.)

First off, MapQuest wanted us to go the most difficult way possible to get part-way there. All we needed to do was to take the nearby highway south a couple miles. But they had us driving all over hell and high water. Once we get about half there, MapQuest wanted us to turn onto a road that actually does not meet up with the other road we were on. After an hour and a half of driving all over the entire city, on both sides of the state line, multiple phone calls to people getting directions and street names, stopping two people on the side of the road, and using up a quarter tank of gas, we finally made it.

By the time we get there, we only had time for 1 quick glass of wine just as the speeches started, and we got just the last few bites of food that were left. We were there just over an hour. We actually spent less time there than it took us to find the damned place.

The ironic part is that once we left the country club, we drove by the corner where we had originally stopped to ask a mail lady for directions. We were maybe a mile away. *ARGHH!*

The only upside to this story is... I now have a new saying.
"I wasn't lost, I actually knew right where I was. It just took me a while to get where I was trying to go from where I was."

So, I am no longer using MapQuest. They suck.

Night-Night Time!

Danica likes to sleep. She most deffinitely is not a morning person, and needs to be woken up with the utmost care, and sometimes that doesn't even matter. If you can let her wake up on her own, that's the best way to go. It was also recently pointed out to me that I have a lot of pictures of my daughter falling asleep at any given moment or the odd positions. Let me demonstrate...

This is after throwing a temper tantrum and literally falling asleep in the same spot she had been standing, screaming, for the last half-hour or so. When there was silence, I went to check it out...

And this is from her baby-sitter. Reportedly, Danica came in from playing outside and practically collapsed, asleep before she hit the pillow. With her shoes on.

This is how I found her sleeping one morning...

Now those might not seem too strange... but let's take another look...

This is Danica asleep at a ballgame. It was School Day at the 'K'. The game was sold out, and was full of screaming children. Not to mention it was 90 degrees out, the sun was rediculously bright, and we were in the front row behind the dugout. So needless to say it was not the most comfortable place to nap. Did that stop her?

And most recently... my baby-sitter sent this to me. (I just love that Candice can email me pictures and updates while I'm at work!)

Admittedly, I too can also sleep just about anywhere. I used to joke that I could lay down right now where ever I was and be able to conk out. (And as tired as I feel lately I bet I still could!) As much as Danica looks and acts like her daddy, I guess we've finally found the one thing that she got from me.

Isn't it strange how genetics work?