And the Rest of Us Partied On Into the Night
Gail, her mother and I went downstairs to the little living room/lounge of the hotel where we sipped some beer and caught up on our reading. Grandma Phoebe read through the piles of coffee table photo books in front of her, Gail checked her e-mail and Facebook and I tried to figure out how to upload my photos so far. The owner spoke to us for awhile while we tried to befriend his shy Labrador Retriever. By 11 pm we were running out of gas. Despite the nasty cough I was fighting, I still fell asleep within minutes.
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