safe and sound at home

Ethan arrived home tonight from his Alaskan fishing adventure. We are so happy to have him home!!..he enjoyed fishing, even though it was really hard work. Roger, Trevor and I met his boat as it came into dock in Gig Harbor- lots of families there to welcome both boats home (2 brothers each own a fishing boat and they fish together) We wanted to take the guys out to dinner and Ethan could hardly wait to get to TACO BELL!!..(not what we had in mind, but oh well, that is what he missed!)so thankful he is home safely!

back to school...

It has been a long and stressful couple of weeks for me, so I have not been in the blogging "mood". I had to switch rooms at preschool, and I also have a different assistant. STRESSFUL!!..this will be my last year teaching, I find I am just not having the patience I used to- we had our first day of school this past Wed 4yr olds and then another first day for my 3yr olds yesterday..had a couple of criers and it just was so hard for me to cope in a kind way!!...anyway, enough of the whining.

Roger spent the last week in Oklahoma City for training and is now back and happy to feel our cool temperatures- he said it was unbearably hot there.

Ethan is on his way home from Alaska fishing, we will pick him up in Gig Harbor at the Marina either tomorrow or Sunday. I missed him so much and cant wait to see him, he said he didnt shave the whole 2 months-eek!!..will see what he looks like,he is a pretty hairy guy.

I havent seen Trevor in a few weeks, he is busy with work and life and we miss him!!

That is my humdrum life in a nutshell!!

we are back!

Our trip was very fun, but not without adventure!..We left Tacoma about 6 a.m. on Friday and got home late last night(Monday). We rode over 1100 miles in that time!!

Our destination was Joseph Oregon for the Bronze,Blues and Brews festival- the town has 3 foundries and there are bronze statues all through the streets- amazing!!
The music was incredible and the crowd was well behaved even thought there was ALOT of beer drinking going on, there were 15 micro-breweries represented.Organic beer is yucky, just so you know!!..ick!

The ride down was where the adventure took place,a little bit of rain in Yakima cleared right up..but as we got further into the day, we could see lots of lightening and rain tunnel looking things from the sky to the ground!..our route went right through them. It was about 5 or so and the skies opened up and dumped with the lightening and thunder and buckets of rain. We had no where to go, we were out in the middle of farmland!!..scarey and vulnerable!! Finally we came across a modular home and a garage and pulled in- no one was home, so we stood against their metal garage and got a small amount of shelter. That is when the torrential rain started along with gusts of wind and then HAIL that was the size of quarters!!..it lasted at least 1/2 hr and we got soaked to the skin-and pounded by hail..the temperature dropped too with the hail. It finally let up a little and we had to keep going..we were about 100 miles from our destination..fast forward thru the cold wet ride about 50 miles and we get within 50 miles of our hotel and find out there were many mudslides and the only road thru there was closed due to the mud and trees down!!!..waaa!!..now it was 7:00 or so and FREEZING cold and we had to turn around and ride to Lewiston Idaho to stay the night...I was shaking uncontrolably and we were all hideously miserable..altho our friends have heating riding gear (guess what Roger and I will have before our next long ride) and we rolled into a hotel about 9 or so, soaked to the skin and muddy as hell. Thankfully they had room!..we cleaned up and had a nice dinner (and a few drinks) and got up Saturday and made it the rest of the way to the festival with no more problems, other than riding bikes that looked like we had been 4 wheeling on them!! We ended up riding 500 miles and about 14 hours that day- whew!!

The rest of the trip was nice sunny weather and lots of fun, beautiful scenery, good music and food and wonderful times with friends!..guess Im not such a wimp after all..lol!!

this blog temporarily interupted.....

by my new obession with these books!..I read over 1000 pages in 2 1/2 days...I am trying to put off starting book 3- Ive got stuff to do!!

Roger and I will be gone on a 4 day ride with some friends to Joseph, Oregon and then on into Idaho and then home..we leave at 6 in the morning (tomorrow)
so the next long break in the blog will be due to me being gone, not just reading!!

mama mia

I went to see this movie tonight with my friend Patrice..I have heard most of the music over the years, but havent really known the story/musical that links them all together. This movie was fabulously done, just so much fun- I laughed and cried!..at one point, a little old man in front of me was even crying!..go see it if you are just in the mood for a light,enjoyable time!