dirt and water

The weekend in the mountains was fantastic! Some fun trip facts:

1. Numerous creek crossings and I only fell in (just my feet) twice. Let's hear it for wet hiking boots!
2. The first part of the trail totally kicked my butt....I wish I were in better shape. But since I haven't actually backpacked in 10 years, I think I did pretty well.
3. The first part of the trail was also very overgrown and hard to follow; so, needless to say we got off the trail for a while. Thankfully, my hubby is pretty awesome with a compass and a map, so we found the trail just fine. Let's hear it for trail blazing!
4. staying at a nice bed and breakfast after a couple of days on the trail and before driving 6.5 hours is a fantastic idea. Ahhhhhh.....

Hopefully in a week or two I'll have some pictures to post.

Off to....

...the mountains. Everyone have a wonderful and safe Memorial Day weekend!

Prayers

Please pray for Jeremy's friend Keith McCord (a roommate from Harding). Keith and his wife Stefanie just had a baby...which is the wonderful, good news. The bad news is Keith has melanoma in his spleen, head, hip and another place. He's headed to M.D. Anderson in Houston in the next week or two to try and get in on a trial there. Thanks for praying.

still here...

...still kickin'. Our friend Sonya is in town this week, so that's fun. And Jeremy and I go on our weekend trip in a couple of weeks. Other than that, not much else is happening. Saw Mission: Impossible III, which was a good, fun dose of entertainment. Hope everyone out there has a good week.

a couple of movies

Okay, everybody go out and rent the documentary Mad Hot Ballroom. It is awesome! It's about a program in New York City public schools that teaches fifth graders ballroom dancing; then they have a city-wide competition. Not only will it be entertaining and educational, but listening to those fifth graders will totally bring you back. I mean it people...watch it.

The other two movies I've watched recently were Casanova and Aeon Flux (going for opposite ends of the spectrum here). Casanova was all right. I slept through part of it, so I may have missed some good parts. It reminded me a lot of Shakespeare's comedies -- set in Venice at about that time, lots of confusion and mistaken identity, and it was kind of bawdy (isn't that a great word?). There were quite a few funny parts.

Aeon Flux was pretty good; it had a nice twist and some nice action and a really freaky girl who had her feet replaced with hands. (Ewe, ewe, ewe). If you like science fiction/action movies you'd probably like it. Jeremy liked it a lot and he'd seen the anime series.

That's all for now!

Lime green

I met Lesley (Ralls) Howe the first day of my first ever semester at college. She was in my "Impact group," one of those things they have for freshman during that cheesy orientation weekend. The first time I met her she was wearing a pair of lime green Doc Martin Mary Jane's. These particular shoes made an appearance at least two or three times a week after that and now, that color always, always makes me think of Lesley. Lesley is one of the coolest people I know, and she doesn't have to try very hard either. She's a theater girl. She's confident, and kind, and thoughtful, and funny, and fun, and sometimes crazy -- but in a good way. ;) Love you Lesley!