Saturday, February 27, 2010

Geocaching Is Not a Crime

My fabulous father came to visit over the weekend, and this was the only picture I ended up taking.


Actually, I took some other pictures when we went swimming at his hotel's pool, but it was with one of those ancient artifacts that actually use film. I have to wait a week to see if any of them turned out. We had a great time with Papa and were sad to see him go. Nana is coming on Tuesday, though, and then the fun will begin anew!
We also went geocaching again. This time we found two out of four, which is pretty good. We couldn't find the first, but the second was at an old abandoned lodge building. 


And there was this picture nailed to a post. I don't know who put it there or why, but I'm glad they did so that I could wonder.


As we were trying to leave, a cop car pulled into the parking lot. Officer Williams asked us what we were doing, and I was pretty relieved when he showed recognition of the term "geocache." We didn't have anything to hide, so he just asked us some questions, wrote down our descriptions and let us go. Apparently they've had problems with transients in that building. He called for two other officers to come help him clear out the building, though, since Dan had seem someone around the back moving pallets.


The funniest part is that while we were leaving, a van pulled up and stopped to talk to us. The woman leaned over and said she was sorry for being a nosy neighbor, but had we been geocaching? We told her what happened and she said, "Oh...we're the ones who placed that geocache!" I am still kicking myself for not getting a picture of her to fully document the afternoon.

There were two more in a nearby park. We didn't find the first, but I found the second. I think that's the first one I've spotted before Dan. I was pretty proud of myself. We asked a girl walking her dog to take a picture of the three of us. I think she was confused when she asked what we wanted to get in the picture and I held up a piece of rusty garbage.


Saturday, February 20, 2010

Valentine's Day and Geocaching

For Valentine's Day, Anda and I made Dan some delicious cookies. He had to make the frosting himself, though, because mine is always disgusting.

We also made him a card. Giving pink paint to a nine month old was not one of my best ideas.


Dan made me an onion-bacon-cheeseburger for Valentine's Day. Nothing says "I love you" like sugar cookies and clogged arteries. We also got each other racquetball rackets, so hopefully that evens it out.


I had to take some pictures of Anda in this dress, too, because I think it is so pretty.



Today we took Anda on her first geocaching excursion. For those of you unfamiliar with geocaching, let me just say that you are called a "muggle" and that a clue to one of the geocaches was a really long story based on Tolkien characters. It's pretty hip. Our usual success rate is about 10%, so finding one out of five today was pretty good.

Saturday, February 13, 2010

On Blogging


I am joining the ranks of the Mormon mommy bloggers. In my defense, it is only because Facebook wouldn't stop changing things around...which is a horrible defense. Dan says this is actually a step backward in the timeline of social media. Hello, 2004!