College Hunting

On Friday I rushed through work. The family planned to visit a university this weekend. It has a Pre-Vet program for Kit Kat. The university happened to be hosting an open house on Saturday. We left the house around 3:45PM on Friday. That put us in the middle of rush house traffic.

I drove Momoko's car. After traffic calmed down, I pulled over and tried to get her to take over the wheel. No luck. She only got a coke out of the trunk. We drove into the college town and found a lot of construction going on. There were also many one way streets making navigation difficult.

We made it to our hotel and checked in. The room looked nice and had a pull out sofa for Kit Kat to sleep on. Then we scoped out campus to locate the check in location for Saturday. We also figured out where we were parking. This had to be done Friday night because open house started early Saturday morning. Then we got some soup at a restaurant down town. To be continued.

Downtown Meeting

My company scheduled an all hands meeting for our team. Food was going to be provided. But it was going to be held in the middle of the city at rush hour. Ouch. Everybody pretty much said they were going to take the train there. I had to buck the trend.

I made sure I left early to drive all the way into the city. The drive started out good. Then it slowed to a crawl in the city. I drove by where I went to high school. Then I missed my turn. Went around a couple circles, found the place, but missed the one parking space by the meeting place.

Well I circled around a couple blocks. Found a little VW Beetle leaving his parking spot. I did a quick U-turn, and claimed the spot. They had some weird way to pay for parking. You don't put coins in a meter by your parking space. You walk down the block to purchase a receipt to put in your window. What the heck? I only had 2 maximum of 2 hours parking. When my time was up, I snuck out of my meeting, then came home.