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So I'm visiting family and I think this trip might be slightly cursed. Key word being "slightly."

First, I forgot my laptop charger which was fixable but annoying since all the computer part stores in San Antonio were closed on Saturday and Sunday. I needed the charger for my laptop because I'm supposed to be working from home from San Antonio, so that was a bit stressful. I found a charger and all is well.



Second mini-disaster. On Friday at the Schlitterbahn water park in New Braunfels, I lost my prescription glasses in the river/wave pool.

Normally, I would have taken off the glasses before entering a pool with waves, but I needed to watch for my niece and nephews and I'm blind as a bat without my glasses. In hindsight, I should have brought my spare set of glasses to wear in the water park, or got one of those strappy things to keep the glasses attached to my head. The current was too strong and there were too many people for me to rescue those glasses, especially since I couldn't see without them!

I filled out a "lost and found" form and spent the evening blind playing Yahtzee with my dad and the kids, trusting that they weren't lying about what my dice were saying. I had fun! :) The one saving grace for that afternoon is my dad joined us at the park and he was able to drive us all home. Otherwise, I would have had to call my parents to come pick us up at the park since I can't see well enough to drive myself, let alone my sister's 3 children I had taken to the park that afternoon!

So this morning, my awesome dad and I woke up super early (5am alaska time / 8am Texas time) and made our way to the nearest 1 hour eye glass place and I got myself some replacement glasses. I couldn't really see the glasses well enough in the store so just picked whatever my dad said looked okay (honestly, I think he would have said anything looked okay because he loves me). I'm able to see okay now which is great! I'm still very sad about losing my glasses though and I'm not sure why?

Logically I'm sad because I've had those glasses for over 3 years and they were comfortable. Now I have two new glasses and neither fit quite right, spent far too much money for them, and I'm going back to get them readjusted. Obviously, it's hard to tell in one minute of fitting the glasses if they actually fit okay. I just checked to make sure they didn't fall off my face too easily. I think my last set of glasses were really durable and good quality and I thought they looked good on me.

Sadly, I can't re-purchase this frame because the manufacturer no longer makes this model. I found some good alternatives online, when I'm back home I plan to see if my normal eye doctor office has these glasses in stock so I can try them on. I also have some spare glasses at home in Alaska.

Everything is fine, I can see I know I can find good durable replacements for my glasses, even the cheap replacements are doing their job great. Emotionally, I just don't get why I feel so wretched? I didn't think I was that attached to these glasses. My best theory is that this was a sudden change and I wasn't prepared. I think I just need a few more days. My husband, still in Alaska, after hearing what happened put his spare glasses in his suitcase. :)

3rd) I was supposed to attend a wedding tonight, well at least attend long enough to eat dinner with my sister's kids. My sister sent her kids to stay with my mom and dad for a few weeks and I coordinated this trip so I could see the kids this summer and do fun stuff with them like the water park and take them to my mom and dad's house to use their pool. My mom and dad are cursed worse than I this summer. Their air conditioning unit somehow flooded the downstairs of their house, so they are currently staying in a rental for the next 3-4 months until their house is fixed. Luckily, their pool still works.

So basically, the plan for the evening was for me to take the kids to the wedding, eat dinner, leave after a desert and then go to my parent's house to swim in the pool. So we arrive at the wedding about 30 minutes late and it turns out the food was even later than us. There would be no food for the next two hours! It's already 7pm at this point, so we feed the kids some appetizers and mini-deserts, they were pretty hungry. We thought we'd arrive and food would be ready. After conferring with my parents we decided I'd take the kids to Whataburger for dinner and then continue on with our original plan of swimming in the pool. I was kind of hoping for prime rib and instead had a number 1 special burger. It was a bit of a letdown. The kids of course where super happy because they love burgers and they loved swimming at night in the pool. :)

So all in all, not exactly cursed but so many unexpected things keep happening! I think it's a vacation thing, I'm out of my comfort zone and stuff is happening!