Do I smell freedom?

My car is due to return home today! It's at a repair shop 1-1/2 hours away from Prague so Brandon will have to pick it up on his way home from work today. Brandon had to withdraw 40000 crowns from the ATM yesterday. As he placed the large stack of bills on the counter he referred to it as "Ann-marie's ransom money". Yes, today Brandon will go pay the transmission guy the ransom that he has requested and hopefully this hostage situation will come to an end!

It's a good thing too, since Brandon will be gone again this weekend. This time on a work-related "team-building" outing. They will be going canoeing for 3 days. Have you ever heard of such a thing? Canoe across a lake... yes. Canoe down a river... yes. But THREE days of canoeing? I guess it's a guy thing. So, since we'll have a car, I suppose Lydia and I will do the girl thing: Shopping!!!

(Brandon, you're going to be sorry you didn't hold onto that ransom!) :-)