September to Remember

Lot's going on and the month isn't even 1/2 over yet!!

Labor day weekend in Spokane was a blast except for the traffic. We left Bellevue at 4pm on Friday and didn't get to Ellensburg until 7:30...that's 3 1/2 hours incase your wondering!!! Usually only takes about 1 hour and 45 minutes. Supposedly there was an accident but we didn't see anything. We finally arrived in Spokane about 11pm...OY.

Saturday was fun. My mom and D got us hooked on geocaching. You may have noticed a new little icon on the right part of screen near to bottom of this page. This is my geocaching status bar from www.geocaching.com. It tells how many I have found or hidden. I'd heard about this whole geocaching thing before but honestly I thought it was kinda nerdy...but all it took was one find and we were hooked.

Basically you go to www.geocaching.com and look for caches in your area. A cache can be anything from a film canister to an ammo can filled with anything from just a paper logbook to action figures, travel bugs, money, postcards...etc. The catch is on the website all you get is the coordinates of the cache and then you must a GPSr (Global Positioning System receiver) to find the cache. Bottom line its excersise that doesn't feel like work...at least that's how I look at it :-)

After geocaching for awhile Saturday morning we then went to Pig Out in the Park which was a huge outdoor food festival at River Front Park in Spokane. I had Shrimp Tacos....YUM!!!! and for dessert....a Ben and Jerry's Chunky Monkey ice cream cone....double YUM!!

Sunday more geocaching and then off to Silverwood for rollarcoaster fun!!! Then Monday it was back home...even though we left Spokane early...10am..we didn't get home until 4:30. Ah well!

Last weekend was the PAWS walk. My sister came over Friday night with her dog Cody and we met her friend Jenny in Bothell for dinner at The Ranch Drive-In....AWESOME HAMBURGERS!! Plus we did a quick goecache that was just up the street. Saturday morning was the PAWS walk. All turned out great. I raised a total of $250.00 and our team raised $485.00! The weather was a little drizzly but not too bad. After walking 3 miles we had lunch and then heading out to do some geocaching...3 hours and 5 miles later...we got 4 of them in the neigborhood.

Sunday we were wore out but couldn't just sit around with all those caches just laying around. We headed out to breakfast at The Brown Bag Cafe....SO GOOOOOD!!! This was our first time going there and let me tell you DELICIOUS!!!! Then we headed to Petco to get Cody (my sister's dog) a water toy and then off to Marymoor Park we went in search of caches. We found the three we set out to plus had a nice walk around the park and even let Gizmo off her leash in the off-leash area...that was a first...she did GREAT!!! We were both shocked!

Needless to say we've been recovering ever since. To top it all off I may have a sinus infection. Went to the doctor on yesterday and results were inconclusive. I got an Rx but was instructed to wait a few days and if I get worse then fill it and start taking but it may clear up on it's own.

Today is the day the results of the New York City Midnight Madness 2006 Screenwriter's Challenge...I have to wait, as of this post, another 3 hours and 15 minutes before results are announced. I'll post results here when I find out.

This weekend I get a little rest while C is in Las Vegas for week. He leaves Thursday morning and won't be back tl Sunday afternoon. So it's just me and Giz for four days. We'll probably just hang around the house....may do a couple geocaches....but just laying around and watching TV sounds pretty good.

School starts Monday the 18th. I just got an e-mail that my book are ready for pick up at the bookstore...total this quarter $290.15...OUCH! Oh well gotta get it done.

Coming up.....the 23rd...Elton John....can't wait!!