a busy Saturday

A rainy afternoon but nice to take it easy after yesterday...

Had to get up at 5:30 a.m. to get to downtown GR by 6:30 to help set up for our Fundango event. Everyone had a great time! It was nicer for me this year because I was out in the event instead of back in the registration room. I got to see a whole lot more this year than last. (In the link above, watch the video and if you look really quickly at the end you catch a glimpse of me working at the t-shirt table.) http://www.wxmi.com/pages/news_landing_page/?Fundango=1&blockID=233117&feedID=2516 Edited: Ok, I did see myself quickly when the clip played on the news last night, but I don't see myself today watching the clip online. Oh well, if you watch the clip you still see what it was all about.

After leaving Fundango, I stopped for a short visit to the 4th annual geocaching chili cookoff. It was also downtown, just a short distance from Fundango. I would have liked to have stayed longer, but needed to go to an Eagle Court of Honor as well. The CoH went well, glad to see another young man with much accomplished.

We came home (Steve and Eric had come with me to the CoH) and Steve wanted to use the comp tickets to the home show so we went back into town and walked around the home show. Needless to say, I was beat by the time we got home again!

This was definitely NOT a good weekend to lose an hour but it's now Daylight Savings time so I lost an hour anyway. Will look forward to a good night's sleep tonight.

I finally have the rebuilt desktop set up and used it to cancel my Young & Happy hostel reservation. Wanted to be able to print it out to prove I'd cancelled if there's ever any question.

Talked to Scott this afternoon. Sounds like he can get a good deal for me on the train. Driving is still not out of the question but I think he'd like to preserve some of his leave time to use later this summer to come home for a visit. Some friends of his suggested that I pick a spot to see between here and Paris and have Scott pick me up there so we can see another part of the country as well. Might not be a bad idea. I still want to see what Scott finds out at the travel office on base about the train. Plus there's another week until we know for sure that Scott won't be off to Iraq before I get there.