A Sunday Hike

To preface this post, I am not much of a "nature gal" at all. I don't enjoy camping in the great outdoors (unless it's in a nice cabin with running water and a toilet). I don't like to get down and dirty. I don't often go hiking, but last Sunday the hubs and I went to Eaton Canyon in Pasadena. I figured a hike would be a nice change to a gym workout. The trail we went on ran 1 1/2 miles in each direction with a 40 foot waterfall at the end. The first mile wasn't bad at all, but the last 1/2 mile to the waterfall had me climbing under tree branches, up and over large rocks, and back and forth across the stream. I had an incident stepping onto an unstable and rock and having my entire left lower leg soaked. Here are some pics from our hike.





And after a 2+ hour hike and all those burned calories, we treated ourselves to In 'n Out. Double Double, fries, and vanilla shake. So much for a workout. ;-)

Game Night

One of the things that hubs and I like to is play board games. Two of our faves are Scrabble and Boggle. We totally get into it and are REALLY competitive about it. Competitive that we start talking smack at each other. But all in fun of course. So Friday night we stayed in and played Scrabble, followed by Boggle.


I held my title in both annihilating the hubs. ;-) It's okay babe. You'll win next time. ;-)

There She Blows!

And that was about it.

On Saturday the hubs and I ventured out to Long Beach to go on a 2 1/2 hour Whale Watch Cruise. The hubs went once as a kid and I have never done it. I was a little wary as I'm prone to seasickness so we both took a dramamine before boarding the boat. I was ok once our boat left the dock but once we got to open sea it was another story. All that rocking and trying to balance myself made be nauseous. Here are some pics from our mini-adventure:

A view of Long Beach from our boat.




Getting farther out to sea


The hubs in action with the DSLR.



Sea Lions!


Way too close-up


The Queen Mary




This was the extent of our "whale watching". Seeing water spewed from the whale's blowhole. No tail, no body, nada! Oh well! After the seasickness, not sure if I can tolerate another whale watching cruise. If I do, I'll have to double or triple up on the dramamine.

Happy Birthday Hubby!

Another year older, another year wiser. ;-) Luv ya babe!

Later rather than Sooner

So for the past few months I have been obsessing over, I mean wanting one of these:




So much so that I already knew what kind of applications I wanted to download onto my phone. I was ready to pay the $199 for the 8G and start another 2 - year contract with AT&T. But I just found out I can't get the 8G iphone for that price. Whaaaaaa?! Apparently because of the current contract I have with AT&T on our service I am not eligible for an upgrade until 10/21/09. That.is.so.long. I have the option of buying it now but I would have to pay full retail of $399 and still sign a 2-year contract. And as I much as I want the iphone, I just can't bring myself to pay the extra $200. Plus, the hubs wants to upgrade his phone to a blackberry so we would have to pay full retail price on that too. Boo! I hope October comes quickly.

First Crochet Project - DONE

So I finally got my first crochet project done! Even though it looks pretty small it's supposed to be blanket. I probably should have made it bigger but by the time I figured that out I was 1/4 of the way through and was too lazy to unravel everything and start all over again. So for now it's a lap blanket, or maybe a blanket for the kitties. It's got a few rows that are uneven but I'm pretty proud of my first project if I do say so myself.




Up next - A SCARF!

A Thursday Surprise :-)

I got these Thursday afternoon at work courtesy of the hubs. An early Valentine's Day present. How sweet of him.