Heather & Rod's Amazing (& Not So Amazing) New Zealand Adventures

Rod and I took a hiatus from our New Zealand Adventures to visit our families back home in Pennsylvania. We had a terrific holiday and spent the last day in Washington DC with Rod’s parents, Bud and Eileen. We toured the sites and ended our day in the Quality Inn near the Dulles airport. We booked the hotel earlier in the week. We had intended on getting two rooms – one for us and one for Rod’s folks, but the cheapest place we could find near the airport was $160. I suggested that was a bit much to pay for two rooms, so why didn’t we just share one? Eileen warned us she had a tendency to get up a few times a night and wouldn’t want to bother us, but we quickly dismissed this as something that wouldn’t be a problem. There was no mention of any nighttime idiosyncrosies Bud may have that might impinge on our slumber, so we assumed all would be fine. We booked the one room. As we settled in for the evening, there was a brief conversation about Bud’s sleep apnea machine. We quickly became t

Okay, since I'm on about my dreams . . . . I'm having some really freaky ones. Too many to write out in full. Plus, if I told you them all you would know how truly demented I am. The fat lady from the Poltergeist movies featured in one the other night - - - you know, the 'go into the liiiiight' woman. . . . oh my. But this one takes the cake... The world has ended and only a few people have survived. I'm holed up in this old, old house with a few other people. The house is falling down, the roof has holes in it, we are all cold and miserable. And there is this monster out to get us... Turns out it's one of those creatures from Greek mythology (yeah, I told you this is normal content) that is half bull, half man. When we see him, he's HUGE and he is trailed by this black cloud (kinda like the monsters in Lost - the TV show). Anyway, it's terribly evil and so scary. He's out to get all of us and kill us. All of my friends there are trying to