Oh where, oh where did my Seattle vacation go? Yeah I know I have been home for a bit now, but come on really Texas do you have to be this hot? Since last Thursday till today and forecasted for the next 7-10 days, yes you will read this right. 101+ (Yikes).. Last two night at 10pm it was still at least 90 out. You cannot really do much outside since it’s so hot out. I really have a lot of house work to do on the outside but at 6pm it’s just crazy heat out there. The head indexes are usually a couple degree’s higher as well. So, even though my parents house doesn’t have A/C and it was 85 most of our trip, I would gladly take that right now over 101+ temps.
Keep Moving On
So in the last couple of days I have been working hard on my hunter. As of earlier today I was about the mid 42 level mark. I hit 42 last night while I was doing some quest runs. I usually try to get in at least one battleground activity in a night. It still is so interesting to me. Between PvE and PvP is a huge difference. Last two times was pretty intense. I got some kills in and some deaths of my own. The tricky Horde rogues are a tough bunch to beat.
Here is an image from last night:
In some other news, I started a druid today while I was playing at lunch. I can only do so much with my hunter on a limited time scale. I actually like the druid. Made it to level 3 (which is really not hard to do when your starting off). Meanwhile my level 15 rogue just sits around Stormwind doing pretty much nothing. (Not much work right now) My goal is to get my hunter to 55 by September. Not sure that will happen with school starting up for the boys and my lack of sleep catching up to me.
Tonight I’m sure if I have the time to get some more XP on the hunter and maybe a new level or two on the druid.
Battle Grounds – The Beginning
Since I finally hit level 40 with my Hunter I had a quest - “The Battle for Arathi Basin!“ So last night I figured now that I was at a level 40 I would go ahead and try it out. I have never done any PvP with this toon and up until level 31 I was on a PvE server. So I jumped in feet first and holy cow what a different experience that was. It was nothing short of Chaos. However with the chaos, it was a lot of fun. It’s too bad that no one really communicates and decides what area to hit next. On the quest front I was able to get 2 of the 4 sections knocked out of the way. So maybe tonight or this weekend sometime I will jump back in and try to get the other ones and get some more honor points.
When I first moved my toon to PvP I couldn’t really see or should I say I didn’t think that it would be for me. However I’m glad at this point I did transfer my character to this server. I had a blast in battle grounds and now look forward to doing these more often while I continue my leveling up on my quest to level 80.
Finally some progress
Yesterday marks a great day for my toon in World of Warcraft. Some may not see this as a huge event, but I don’t care, I DO. I finally hit level 40 with my Hunter. Wow it’s has taken a lot of time but I did it. I was so excited I went and bought some new gear and leveled up my hunter skills. One drawback however, I had to go all the way back to Cenarian Enclave in Darnassus. It was really OK, took a boat ride or two to get there, but was happy to learn journeyman riding skill and get my new mounts.
Here is a pic of my new gear. Yeah I know it’s nothing to really write home about but I think it looks cool and add’s a little more defense to what I had previously.
From 35,000 feet
So here I am writing this post at about 35,000 feet in the air. I think we currently are over wyoming and about to cross into Colorado. Which means vacation is over. Soon to be home and back to work and to get the kids ready to start another school year. I will post later about our vacation. But let me tell you it went WAY to fast.
Vacation time was fun
So vacation time came and went. Although they always seem rather short, we sure had fun in short order.
1st day was a very long and tiring and exhausting day at Sea world. Now it was fun and all but wow was it hot and expensive. The boys had a blast and we did enjoy the shows. We opened the place up and closed it down. It was a long day. Our second day was more of a relaxing nature since we were in the heat and on our feet all day yesterday. We did some swimming and they we went into the little town close to where we were staying. They had a frontier museum which was maybe 40% frontier related but we went through it anyways. Next we walked around to some of the local shops on main street. On the third day we took a cave tour at Natural Bridge Caverns. Now that was a lot of fun. It was 3/4 of a mile long and we got about 180 feet below the surface. After the Caverns we headed toward downtown and went to the Alamo. That was a lot of fun especially since I had never been there before.
After touring the Alamo and taking as many pictures as we could, we walked down to the river walk and just strolled around. It was pretty fun. It would have been more fun if I didn’t have Celiac Disease and I could just plop down where ever and get some dinner. So after trying to figure all that out, we opted to leave and just head back to the place we were staying and just cook some dinner. The next day was going to be a full one as well. We ended up driving North to Fredericksburg. We went there about 1 year ago to a bed and breakfast and just loved the town and atmosphere of the area. So we went to Wild Seed farms. This place is really cool. Lots of Wild Flowers and a butterfly exhibit. We also ventured to a WWII Pacific Museum. They added on since the last time we were there and we actually ran out of time to see the entire place. Or should I say time to absorb that much military history. We drove up and down main street a couple of times and stopped at the Amish store and then off to dinner. After dinner we went out to the Old Tunnel to watch the bat emergence. We had seen this before but wanted the boys to witness 1+ million bats flying out of a tunnel. It’s such an awesome experience. This time we sat at the lower level and we had bats flying right above our heads. So cool..!!
The last day we went back down town to check out 3 missions. They were pretty cool and we took tons of pictures and it was really hot so we didn’t go to any more of them. Just these 3 main ones. After the missions we stopped at a Gluten Free Restaurant that I heard about on Facebook. It was good just a little pricey.
We took our time driving back. I think it was about 6.5 hours with a couple of the stops we made, but overall it was a super fun vacation.
Here is a list of places we went/things we did:
1. Sea world
2. Natural Bridge Caverns
3. The Alamo
4. The Riverwalk
5. Fredericksburg
6.. San Antonio Missions
