Trinkets

Before Shelly took a school trip to Paris, she asked me if there was anything I wanted. I told her I wanted anything other than a tacky trinket. So being a smart-aleck 11 year old that she was, she managed to find me the tackiest trinket: a plastic Eiffel Tower, sitting on a plastic globe, with Tweetie Pie hanging from the side.

On my family's latest field adventure (to Prague - which I wasn't invited to. It doesn't matter if I have already been there or not. I still wasn't invited) Shelly and Cori managed to out do themselves:

Not really sure if I should thank them for thinking of me or not.... I do know however, I need to take a trip somewhere and quick! Hope you girls like snow-globes.

*Big Hole In The Ground

This weekend we took a day trip to the Grand Canyon, it was amazing. We hiked the Bright Angel Trail, which was a grueling 9 miles to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (although the bottom-bottom was another 6 miles beyond that, but I like to think I achieved the bottom, so work with me here)

Initial reaction to the Grand Canyon:

"Bottom" of Grand Canyon:

Cool rock formation that made me think of TJ. Maybe you could explain how the Grand Canyon was made for the talent show?

We were hoping for something a bit more exciting to happen here. Unfortunately no one was rammed. Kevin told me if I was the one to be rammed, he would have knocked the mountain goat out. I considered getting rammed just to see him try.

*I may or may not have at one time referred to the Grand Canyon as "the big hole in the ground," and it is quite possible that I will never live that one down.

Cheaters Never Propser

It's November first and we are still wearing shorts and t-shirts:

Taken November 1st (this just doesn't seem right, I should be wearing three layers!)

I feel as though we have cheated winter and having an extended summer. Which is why I am starting to worry about where will we end up moving in January. I'm starting to think that our punishment for cheating winter will be a move to Alaska. However, I'm banking on the fact that Karma doesn't know how good of a cheater I am (see any member of my family for details on this)

We have been taken advantage of the wonderful weather by doing lots of out-doorsy things, such as jet skiing. We went jet skiing when we were down in Florida, which means we were in the same water as alligators.

Kevin was not allowed under any circumstance to throw me off the jet ski. I could have been eaten alive! (I have very sweet blood - they can smell it, you know) The alligators turned out to be too fast to catch on video, but we did find something else....

We plan on taking lots of advantage of the weather before shipping off to Alaska!