Looks like the laptop is truly dead, the only way to replace the video card is to replace the whole mother board. Quickly looking for a replacement and it comes out to somewhere in the $600 to $800 range just for the motherboard. I know my laptop was a decent one but wow that is steep. Not to mention since the videocard in the laptop was known for failing (a fact that came to light about a year after I bought the laptop) then there is no guarantee that it will not fail again. Bugger.
Anyway, on to better things, the continuation of my trip report. Weird that is has been almost two weeks since we've been back and I'm still writing this but we've been busy with stuff. We were on Friday, a day we decided to go to the beach since it was yet another lovely day and it wasn't too far to go (25 miles or so).
Since we had four people and a baby in his car seat we took two cars to get there since there was no way we were going to fit in to one car. With everything finally ready (it takes a while to get everything together to travel with a baby) we set off. Getting there was relatively easy, we just set the GPS for the town the beach was in and once we got there followed the signs for the beach. We even got parked right by the beach since we were there early enough before the car park filled up too much. We got a good spot away from most people and staked our claim with a huge blanket.
It was a good few hours at the beach all together. We had food, building sand castles with a bucket and spade, ice cream, paddling in the sea and good weather. Our nephew got a little gripey after being happy because my mother in law decided to try and put a jumper on him to keep him warm even though he was perfectly warm enough. Yeah, a lot of what she does is like that, take something calm and peaceful and turn it in to something worse. Still it made me realise that having a baby would be a constant interruption to whatever you are doing.
I suppose here I should pontificate a bit on what having a child would do to us. I still see it as a good thing but I'm not sure we could cope with it. Having a child takes all of your time, especially early on. We've become comfortable with just us, for almost 20 years it has just been the two of us (plus cats for the past 11 years) so I don't think we could deal with the change. It is like anything really, if it happened (which it won't realistically) we would cope but it is not something we are going to do. I have accepted that and am happy with it, I just wish I had not put us through this with how my feelings bounced around on the subject. I miss the fact that it didn't happen but can accept the choices we made. So there we go, no big life realisation really, just learning to cope with how things turned out and to be happy together as we are.
So, back to the trip stuff. I would post some more pictures here but considering they are all on my laptop and the only other way to get them involves emailing them around or grabbing them from an unfriendly website I won't bother. You can just image a nice beach with the 5 of us on it :-) .
The rest of the day went by quietly, a bit of shopping, time at home, dinner and then another early night since we were worn out again with the days activities.
I'll try and make the next trip report post sooner, hopefully this week won't be quite so busy with stuff going on.
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