Bloody hot

  As with most of the northern hemisphere the last few days have been really hot. Talk about a good time to go away in the caravan and be enclosed in a small wooden box :) . Luckily our small wooden box has air conditioning so we didn't completely melt while away this weekend. We did trip the circuit breaker a couple of times but other than the first night, where we couldn't cool down the caravan enough, it was actually not too bad. Heck at one point my wife said she was getting cold the AC was working so well.

  As for the actual birthday I had fun. I went zip lining in the morning, getting there before virtually everybody else. By the time I was done with my two zips there was at least a half an hour wait to do it. I did a standard one which I had done before then a super one where you are basically lying flat facing the ground. Kind of a rush flying along looking down at the bushes and trees zipping past you. I hit a fair old speed as the people at the bottom who are there to catch you commented something along the lines of "bloody hell you got a good speed going there". It seems I have a natural talent for being able to zoom along quickly or at least aerodynamically when sliding down things. My poor old wife got to sit in the heat while doing this but she did catch a bit of video of me zooming down. By the time I was done the temperature had shot up so we got in the car with its lovely AC and got the hell out of there.

  The rest of the morning was then spent exploring the local hills/mountains. We went way up in to them and found a few good quiet places to stop and look out. We even found a nice quiet spot with nobody else around a reasonable distance from the road to have lunch with just the two of us. Well and a wasp that joined us for a bit and freaked my wife out somewhat. Still being somewhere that out of the way in the peace and quiet was very relaxing.

  The afternoon was spent back in the caravan watching films and then we went out to dinner to the one good restaurant in the town we were near. The food was good there but the place needed better AC, it got way too hot in there. That and people really don't dress up at all when going out to dinner, they stay stupidly scruffy. All in all though by the time 9PM came around we were both tired so had an early night. Birthdays like that are great, just being with the person you want to and doing stuff you like.

  In other important news I actually played a couple of games on my PS3 last night. With looking after my wife after her surgery I really haven't done much, we've spent more time in the bedroom watching the entirety of Northern Exposure so it was cool to get some game playing in again. I started Lego Batman 2 which is cool considering they have added voices. It helps you get all the little silly stuff they do in the cut scenes in those games even more and the humour is always great. I also quickly tried out Saints Row the Third, a game my wife doesn't like but my parents got me after it was left on the amazon wish list. That starts out crazy enough so there should be some stupid fun in there although I'll not be playing that in front of my wife.

  Now with that dump of text I better get back to work. Something of a crisis bug going on at the moment and I need to save the day again and get it fixed. Until next time.