Isn't It Monday?

Well, we did it. We took Sam on his first long adventure. With construction, bad weather, Chicago traffic and poor Sam getting fed up with his car seat, we still feel it went really well! He was a good sport, and I hope hope hope he stays that easy to travel with! haha. Something tells me that's unlikely, but I still hope. We had a good time being family, and it was great for Sam and Grandma to hang out.

Grandma even babysat for an afternoon so we could go see a movie. We went and saw the Prairie Home Companion movie! We really enjoyed it. I nearly wet my pants a few times laughing. I grew up listening to Prairie Home Companion and am used to that dry style of humor. At one time (and maybe still) I knew the words to the (has your family tried them) Powder Milk Biscuit jingle, and there were a couple of monologues I knew almost by heart too. There was one about a Minnesota winter where a guy was up on his roof for some odd reasonthat I don't remember, and also because the snow was over the doors. He fell off the roof but he landed by their new clothes dryer vent so he stayed nice and warm in his little impromptu igloo and pondered his own life and death and came up with some profound meaning to it all - true Garrison Keillor style. That's all I remember about it, but I remember listening to it over and over again because I had taped it off the radio on my little tape recorder - remember those old top loading square ones with the big square buttons?
I had a microphone that went with it and I sat throught the radio show holding the microphone up to the radio speaker so I could tape the show. You had to push Play and Record at the same time. It must have been the crappiest sounding recording but I don't remember that about it, I just loved hearing it again and again. On the other side of the tape was probably Blondie singing The Tide is High with the station call letters being voiced over right in the middle of the song.