My friend Golfdiva and I had a great time caching on Friday. When we go out together (not often enough) she usually drives and I'm the navigator. Usually works well except when I forget that she is not a mind reader and couldn't tell that I wanted her to make a turn when I forgot to tell her out loud!
I picked up 30 caches, she picked up 35. (The difference being that a few of the last ones we did were ones I'd picked up on the way back from Newaygo a few weeks ago.) A nice variety of small and larger caches, single stages and multi's. A very satisfying day. Probably the most interesting cache of the day was one hidden in an old civil war-era cemetery. We both enjoyed wandering around a while and looking at the old stones. We ended our day with an ice cream stop. Something neither one of us needed but oh well. They had spaghetti ice cream listed on the menu. After I placed my order, I asked what in the world spaghetti ice cream was. Turns out they put vanilla ice cream through an extruder to make it look like spaghetti, then top it with strawberry sauce and put chocolate malted milk balls on top (for meatballs.) I may try to recreate that at home, it'd be fun.
Yesterday I attended a funeral visitation for a dear friend from the past. Grandma Marion was the first person I met at the daycare where I worked for 11 years. She and her husband, Johnny, were married for 68 years. Wow. If we make it that long, Steve will be 98 and I'll be 91. Probably isn't gonna happen. It was good to see old friends from the past while I was there. Wish it had been for other reasons. It shouldn't take a funeral to bring people together, should it?
After the visitation, I had to go to Lowell to the Riverwalk Festival as Gilda's Club had a float in the parade. I got to ride on the back, holding one of my sweet little boys. Also got to wear a lovely foam "Gilda's hair" hat. If someone got pictures I'll post one. It pulled back my regular hair so now I have a strip of sunburn there where my hair usually covers.
Went home after enjoying a bit of the festival after the parade, and got some laundry and dishes done. I have to get a move on soon with summer housecleaning - my mom and stepdad are coming for a visit at the end of the month. Yes, Mom, it isn't all that bad but I am going to be gone for the better part of the next two weeks.
I'm working on Monday and Tuesday then Steve & I leave for a BMW rally in Tennessee on Wednesday. (Eric is holding down the fort and checking in on Grandpa Cooper.) Then we're back on Sunday, and on Wednesday (I think) Steve leaves for another rally. I'm planning to take off on Thursday for the Midwest Geobash, where over a thousand crazy people just like me will get together and have fun caching and doing caching-related things. Again, Eric will hold down the fort. I offered to bring him along to geobash but he said he'd only go if I bought him a new Mac. No.
It is his (Eric's) birthday on Tuesday and he's really not sure what he would like. He says there's nothing he can think of that he really needs or wants. We'll come up with some nice way to commemorate the day though.
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