Monday, May 28, 2007

Lazy Memorial Day

The young ones (and a few older ones) have made good use of the new Play Station converter and controllers that allow four players at one time. We only do Play Station once a week - often less - so this is big for them.
Josiah and I ran to Sam's club. We needed milk and batteries.....and ended up buying birthday gifts for the girls too.

We went geocaching. We only found two. Wow - it was HOT out there today. We were the FIRST find on one of them. Yippee! That's a first for us. It was hilarious....we approached from the wrong side of the river. We thought we'd simply walk across but the other side of the river is FULL of gorgeous mansions....so we couldn't get DOWN to the river.....The young ones, Mike, Jamin, and I continued to walk around the ritzy neighborhoods. We sent Jamin and Josiah back to bring the van over. We walked and walked....and finally found it in a spot we'd been to before when we had been looking for a freecyle pick up. It was right next to a STUPENDOUS mansion. After all that walking we found it by ACCIDENT. Jamin was hiking down a narrow path. He noticed a wasp nest and reached over and flicked it.....and it was glued to the top of the cache. ::snort::
Do you spot it?
THIS must be our most unsual cache yet. YOU try not to let on what you are doing while the sales reps swarm around you. ::snort::
Mike had wanted me to go with him to a memorial day event. He was doing the invocation. We were going out afterwards. However, it became apparent that I overdid today with the hiking and such. I laid down and took a nap.....and now I'm drinking water and planning to lay down some more.

Josiah and Jamin tried to go see Pirates but it was sold out until 8:00 p.m.

8 comments:

Shari said...

I've been fervently praying for you and your family. Sounds like you had a fun day.

Kristine said...

Did you HIDE one at the car dealer, or find one?

How FUN to have four players on the PS!

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Thanks for the prayers, Shari.

Kristine - we FOUND one - we've never hid one.

Debbie said...

Man, we haven't gone geocaching in ages. There always seems to be so much to do in the spring. Maybe soon we'll hit the train again.

We have never been first find...we have some very aggressive cachers around here.

DeEtta @ Courageous Joy said...

Debbie - I think it is WAY to hot to go caching around here in the summer...we are going to have to remember to go EARLY from here on out...and avoid chiggers.

There are aggressive cachers here too so we were shocked to get home, log our find and find we were the first. LOL

Anonymous said...

Sis:

Jamin is bravier than I'd be to even get close to what looks like a wasp or bee nest. :) Of course looking at the nest he is holding is seems one would suspect it was empty by the color.

Hope the next time we are in Texas the weather is good so we can go on an excursion with you etc. Looks like a lot of fun.

Dad/Uncle Ole went down a small bank to fish yesterday. NO CATCH though. BUT had a lot of fun. Dad has sore muscles he had forgotten he even had the past year. He is fine though!

l/p

Cynthia said...

As soon as the weather ever turns more summer like here I want to get the boys out caching again. It's been too rainy and cold to get out yet.

Emily said...

We still haven't ventured into the caching world yet. I know now through September it's going to be too hot so maybe I will wait until fall and then we will give it a try.