Any of you ever been to ND?  The place is a dive.  Not saying it to be a downer it’s just the truth.

Anyhow, in Denver everything is 2 to 3 times more expensive than it is there.  We are going to be staying on a Lake Cabin in MN and getting a boat for the same price it costs to stay in a nice motel in Denver.  We are saving a bundle all over this trip.  We’ve joined travel clubs, gas clubs, and hotel clubs all to save as much money as possible.  Besides the obvious reason to save as much money as possible, it was also for a very good reason.
We / I wanted to show my aging grandma a meal like she had never had.  We wanted to take her and the family to a really posh restaurant in Fargo.  I won’t lie, it’s like a 500 dollar meal.

I haven’t seen these people in 10 years, and will not see them in another 20 years probably.  There is no way I will ever be able to attend a funeral, so I wanted to make this meal real, real, special.

Well, I’m now being made to feel like my mother.  A money hungry woman who absolutely loves to flaunt it around.  These people don’t realize how long this has been planned, how much research I’ve done on lodging, or how many deals I’ve cut to be able to afford this.  It’s not like I’m rich.  It’s not like this is something I do every week.

I gotta tell ya, right now, I’m about to say the hell with them all because the fact they even tried to compare me to that woman makes me not even want to see them.

I tried to do something nice and now I feel like a mugger.  Damn!