Excellent hotel last night, Thunderbird Executive Inn. Found it on hotels.com. Will definitely stay here again. Awesome "campus" quiet & nice amenities.

LF, sitting @ GCC waiting for test time, too early, found a cache, paid for tests, located testing room. Too much time to think about tests. No distractions. Outcome not as expected, get another chance but will have to return to Glendale, Az.

Friday pizza night @ Schlotzsky's-the line is out the door! Weather is nice & everyone is out. Mmm vegan pizza is not too bad but neither in the bbq chicken

Class #5 of Citizen Police Academy-why do citizens ask such stupid questions? Got our applications for ride along-woo hoo! Got to check the calendar for dates.

Space Station Tracking

I found this and thought it might be interesting to have on the blog. You can see exactly where the International Space Station is. The red dot on the map is our house in Havasu.

Oh happy day! a teeny bit late leaving for work, needed sunglasses for the drive: 1st time this winter!

One Vegan, One Carnivore

Linda is on day three of trying out a vegan diet. Tom is not. Finding alternatives event to meatless products is challenging. Didn't realize how many of the meat substitutes I use have milk or eggs. So far so good, had a yummy dinner of Italian meatless balls, baked sweet potato, salad with rice cheese. The rice cheese, cheddar flavor, was actually tasty. Went shopping with an Adventist friend to their bookmobile sale of grocery products, even those have egg & milk in them. My friend was surprised to know that. We have ONE grocery store in town that carries vegetarian-friendly foods. We'll see how each day goes.

~LF

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Join us for another geocache event to celebrate Pi Day. Let's fill the room, buy food, or not. Come on over for another fun time.

Working with CERT at 1st HavaBBQ. Lots of meat. Free food for workers. Mmmm meat! lol Our job to hand out band aids.

LF finally finished reading The Book Thief. Really liked it once I got going on it. Started City of Thieves, another WWII book with nazis in Russia.

Note to Linda: teach Tom how to tweet & DM on twitter.

The new Zoey sitter is lined up. Got our info for Saturday's hamfest. Meeting good friends to play all weekend long & see cachers we haven't seen since last yr.

Done creating PQs for the Yuma weekend. Will have to run it again on Saturday for new event caches. Got the new Geowerly TBs activated & ready to be discovered.

Trying out mobile blogging. Maybe this is something we would use more on the go to send short updates or reminders. Hmmm can i text to me google calendar?

Alamo Road Slot Canyon

You meet the nicest people Geocaching . . . .

We were driving west on Interstate 40 to check on one of our caches that was reported as missing. As we were driving and talking about this cache, we were passed by a VW with 2 people in it. We both looked over and noticed that the occupants were waving their GPS's at us. WHOA!! Cachers were acknowledging that they were also cachers! Kind o' cool.

We gave them the thumbs up and they sped past us. We, noticed that they had a travel bug on their their bug. So, we sped up to get the travel bug number off their car. They changed lanes to make it easier for us to get the number. They knew exactly what we were doing. We got their TB number and followed in behind them in traffic. We thought that we would again pass them and get off the freeway. Since we were in the Jeep, they were speeding away with ease.

Then, we noticed that they were getting off the freeway! So, we followed them and when they parked, so did we. It turned out to be Little Castle Queen and McAttk. A very nice couple of cachers. We talked for about a half an hour and swapped stories. They were on their way to Bullhead City to cache for the rest of the day.

Now we have 2 new friends because of geocaching. I'm sure that we'll see them again. Oh yeah, we did make it to the "cache that wasn't there". And, it was there, right where it should be.

A fun day on the road.

Happy New Year

Not that anybody reads this, we hope everyone has a happy and prosperous new year. Things are bound to get better, hopefully.

The Nines on the Ninth Flash Mob Event

The calendar date, 09-09-09, doesn't occur very often so we wanted to get together for a special geocaching event. A flash mob event is pre-coordinated and for a very short time. Borrowing ideas from the internet, we recorded an mp3 file and made it available to all geocachers. We contacted local cachers to generate interest, the more the merrier. The idea was to have everyone doing the same actions at the same time while listening to directions and music that no one else can hear. With the help of our favorite muggles, Jason & Kimberly, and five of our favorite geocaching teams, the event started at 6:06 (9:09 upside down). Not everyone was synced but that was part of the fun and it was over in less than seven minutes. Jason monitored the logging container, an ammo can, and Kimberly took pictures. We had a drawing for First To Find and a special event geocoin. Many thanks to BuffaloCat (FTF), zacoolkatz (winner of the 9-9-9 geocoin), BRUZRs Daddy (designated line leader) & Logibear (performed without mp3 player, good job!), toyjeep (yay, Elisa, continue your speedy recovery), and zoonslikezoey (us!) Kudos to Tom for spending so much time on recording the mp3!

After, we met at Schlotzsky's in time for the Happy Hour $2 sandwiches.

Labor Day Weekend

Labor Day Weekend 2009 took us to California with Chris, to visit April and Nitzy. April was getting baptised on Sunday, September 6th, and we really wanted to see her new apartment. We arrived at Nitzy's on Friday afternoon (before all of the traffic started) and had a nice visit. We visited with Dusty & Heather and finally say Jayden for the first time. What a cute little guy. well, he isn't that little anymore, being 18 months old. We had a nice dinner and good conversation and Jayden provided most of the entertainment.

Saturday we left Nitzy's for Aprils house. We had decided to go to the Griffith Park observatory. What a great place. So much to see and learn about. The views, while smoky from the Station fire over the hill from the observatory, were still pretty spectacular. From there, we went to the Science center by the LA Memorial Colosseum. USC was playing a game, and the parking and traffic was terrible. We found parking and made our way over to the museum. It was so crowded from USC students passing thru it. We made our way upstairs and found some of the exhibits. we were all pretty tired from walking and the heat that we decided to go to Aprils apartment.

Aprils apartment is small. But, for her and Penny, its just the right size, and its hers. We visited for awhile and left back to Nitzys house.

Sunday took us to Crossroads church for April's baptism. Steve and Vera were presided over Aprils baptism. She was fully submerged for her baptism. We are very proud.

We sat thru the service, which was not like another service that I have ever sat thru. Lots of LOUD rock music and the pastor was a guy that I think I went to high school with. He was inspiring in his talk.

Went church ended we went over to Steve and Vera's for homemade veggie tacos, and Ice Cream Drumstix for dessert. We had a great time getting caught up with he two of them.

We left Nitzys at about 4:00 pm for the 4 hour journey home. No traffic along the way and we were home by 8:15pm.

All in all, a nice family weekend in California.

Lake Caching with Oh Jeeperz!

Thursday, August 27, Linda and I were invited to go Lake caching with our friends Mark and Diane (Oh Jeeperz!).

We left in the afternoon from their place on the Island. It had started to cool down a bit to about 110 or so and we trekked off to get some of the caches on the lake that you need a boat or jet ski to get to.

We picked up a few and Diane said that we need to get the Copper Canyon cache. We all agreed and speeded toward Copper Canyon. We got there and they pointed us to a large hill and told us which general direction to go. Up! Linda and I began our ascend to the hole. We were up pretty high, but the view was beautiful. we managed to find the cache and make our descent down a steep hill with wet slippery shoes. We did make it and decided to head off to a quiet cove for some dinner and swimming.

We retrieved another very hard to get to cache and decided to float and have brownies (thanks again Diane, they were great).

Once it was dark, we left our spot and returned back to civilization.

It was a great afternoon out on the lake with great friends..