You know, I had started a post a few days ago and it has disappeared….wacky.
Watching WALL-E while doing this. I love this movie!
I spotted my 1st raccoon in our neighborhood. I heard something up on the neighbor’s roof, thought it was one of the many squirrels, looked up and saw him. It was hard to see him with losing daylight…..but he would come to the edge of that roof and look towards me as I talked to him. =)
Today, I was actually able to get my work done after getting bombarded with things needing answering as soon as we got back from the gym. I actually got time to get some things down around the house and have time to write up a blog. =)
My abs are sore as hell, that is what I get for not doing anything for week. I can’t even laugh without it hurting. But because my abs hurt, I’m not feeling the pain in my thighs, that I know is there. And my new nose piercing isn’t hurting until I do something goofy, like hit it……..lol You don’t realize how much you touch your nose until you can cause pain doing it……grin
For those who missed my tweets (check them out…because I do post pics), I got my nose pierced Sunday and hubby got his other nipple done. Since we got our anniversary presents early (the iphones in Apr) and we went camping last week for it, I knew we weren’t going to do much on it. So I wanted to finally get our piercings done on a special day just to break it up especially since I was going to be working late on payroll.
Here is a hint, never have your wedding on a holiday or end/beginning of the month. Messes up planning, so that is why we plan our celebrations early.
We went camping for the 1st time since our honeymoon….damn, can’t believe it has been that long. We brought our tent and sleeping bags for our anniversary last year, but with trips and moving, never got to our camping. So a year later, we finally got to use our stuff. =)
We went down to the Redwoods in CA. We took the quick route down, I-5 until we needed to cross over to 101. Once we got to 101, we got to see some stunning scenery…huge trees and beautiful coastal views. Once you opened your windows you could smell the forest….I love that smell.
We stayed at Prairie Creek campgrounds. They have the last herd of Roosevelt Elk that frequents the meadow. It was so cool to see. They were just getting their antlers, so those were small and covered in felt. The meadow was a fern meadow and not very tall at all, but it was amazing how they could easily hid in it.
We got a very nice spot, felt semi-private and tucked away. We had one of the faucets for water right in front of our site, worked out nicely for washing dishes. The fire grill was kind of high and big. So you could sit and get the heat of it very well and with the size, couldn’t get good ashy fire. The fires that are steady with the burning that makes it easier to cook over. But we enjoyed anyway and learned a few things. =)
We got our tent set up pretty quick. Practicing in the living room really helped that. =) What flustered me, was that we try extremely hard to be organized and we couldn’t maintain that at all. Always having to get our stuff out of the bear box and then forgetting that we had snacks and lotions..and stuff in our travel bags that we needed to put into the box….boy, we need more practice….lol
I know that camping is suppose to be roughing it and that doesn’t bother me, but I’m a female and love having a bathroom with running water. And that campground had that. =) I really wasn’t looking forward to latrines….males have it so much easier for that. They even had a few coin operated showers, which was great on the 2nd night after hiking…even if it was chilly on the walk back.
On the second day, we went hiking to the Tall Tree Grove. That was really, really cool to see. We had to get a permit to use the access road to get to it.
The 2nd night of sleeping was much more comfortable then the 1st night. Think we were finally getting settled in it.
On the third day, we took the 101 out all the way. We wanted to drive the Oregon coast. Wow is what I have to say about that. It was a winding and hilly road, you really had to take care. But it was stunning. It was cool to see the sea and mountain air hit to make just beautiful mist.
We stopped at a great diner called Kozy Kitchen in Coos Bay. We had the best Turkey Manhattans ever, of course they were called open faced sandwiches and looked at us as if spoke a different language when we called them that……lol
We were going to drive all up to Cannon Beach, but we were so tired of driving and just wanted to chill. So we ended up staying at Newport and got a room with a jacuzzi. It was nice to chill out and check up, because we haven’t had a steady connection since we left home…lol You don’t get the ATT 3-g network in the Redwoods or 90% of the drive up to Newport…grin
We had decided to head home the next day, but before we did that, we visited the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport. It is one of the best ones I’ve ever seen.
What was surprising about our trip is that we got totally perfect weather for it! At this time of the year the Redwoods it is normally rainy. This time, it was sunny and clear, in the 60s and got to the mid 40s at night….perfect!
Even Portland has had great weather since Memorial Day and they haven’t had a non-rainy Memorial Day since 2005, I believe they said on the news….lol We are suppose to get some thundershowers in the next day or so, but compared to last June with the constant chilly rain, I’ll take. We have been having some perfect weather.
Overall, I really enjoyed myself even with the small things that drive you batty. It was great to be out in nature and have fresh air. Felt wacky as heck not to have some sort of online access, sadly……..lol…but nice. I do need to learn how not to do anything again, felt kind of weird doing that.
I know that I should post more, but I spend a lot of my time working online, going to the gym, laughing at our cats, and doing everyday errands. So I really don’t have much to post about. Hell, I think most of my tweets are about work………lol I need to work on that. No one wants to hear the same thing over, over again.
And I’ve started to use twitter to make my comments on politics most of the time, since they are shorter and not long rants. Boy, I could do some ranting about what has been going on….grin
I can tell you that our cat Drew loves to “roar” for no reason at all…….grin He is always touching stuff….I swear he has ADD…..LOL
**I just noticed that my blog design is screwed up. Looks like I may need to find another one. =( I really like this one.
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