Done with work for the weeks

Since my boss was feeling nice he let us all take to day off if we wanted to and like I was going to say no!!! So all the guys I work with took of for the weekend since most of them live somewhat close by. So I was getting kind of bored up in my little cabin so I decided to go visit my sister this weekend. So LA here I come (eventhough I am not a huge fan of the traffic). So who knows what will be in store for the weekend. I am excited because it is supposed to be super nice here this weekend so some of the snow may finnally melt away.

Well I think that is all for now, but I am sure that I will have more to post after this weekend.

Crazy F****ing Birds

SO the snow banks on the side of the roof on the main office are at the level of the windows and we have these crazy ravens that hop on the snowbank and start tearing the screens of the windows. It is super loud and scares the crap out of me when I am in the kitchen and they start making the loud Bang Bang on the window. I think that sometimes they also try to eat the roof so that is even louder. I have heard stories about how a few years ago they ate a bunch of the insulation stuff and weather striping off on ouf the guys subaru's so I am just hoping that they don't revert to that.

Not much else new here it was a rainy day here. I hope that when I go in to get breakfast tommorow that I don't see a raven looking in the window at me. It seriously creeps me out!!!

Im alive....but barely

I am alive and here in CA. I started work on monday and let me tell you they still have a lot of snow here if you want to see how much click on the arrowhead link. It is crazy..... So my excting news is that the past 2 years the internet has been far away from where we live and hard to get to, but I have now discovered that there is wireless internet up at the parks visitor center. so instead of driving 1 hour to use the internet I only have to drive about 3 miles.....but I am currently sittin in my car.

In other news this weekend was Arrowheads 25 year reunion and well lets just say it was a good time. Hotshots always know how to party. My sister came up for it so her and I got to hang out and she heard a lot of stories. We also were hit on by old men, had to call the park rangers to take someone to the hospital after they had been in the snow bank for about an hour, and meet a bunch of really cool people.

Well I am getting a little chilly here in my car so I know that I am aware of the internet here I should be able to keep this a little more updated.

Happy Easter!!!!

Happy Easter Everyone!!!!!

I am in the process of trying to get my butt back in my car and finish my drive. I only have 8 hours left to go. Yippeee!!!

Everything worked out with my hotel room last night! So that made me happy. It is wierd they have wireless internet in the casino but not in the hote rooms.

So yesterday I drove through Colrado and Southern Utah. S. Utah has all sort of cool rock formations and while on a section of I-70 that doesn't have any exits with services for 106 miles I stopped and took this picture of the rocks.

Well it is back to the real world for me. I have to be at work at 8:00 am tommorow. Lets hope that my cabin is open tonight and I don't have to sleep in my car.

I am off into the world of no internet so until the next time I am where there is a computer stay tuned!!!!

In cases you are wondering where I am

Well....... I am currently in Mesquite Nevada. It is about 50 min outside of vegas. I was going to stay in vegas but then I was thinking about the fact that I have a really big kayak on my car and that it doesn't fit into parking ramps and well it draws attention to my car and I don't really want a bunch of drunks trying to break into my car. Plus I have discovered that it is the Sat before easter and well hotel rooms are high priced tonight. So after looking at two casino's in this little town (both of which I know charge $25 on a week night) whose rates were 110 for tonight I got this brilliant idea. So I drove over to the Best Western whipped out my computer in the front seat of my car in their parking lot and used their wireless internet to find a cheap room online. Well you think Wow amy you are smart.........well not so. I went to the hotel that I made the reservation at and they didn't have my reservation in their computer yet. So now I am sitting in the starbucks at the casino waiting for a little while to see if my reservation comes through.... hmmm can you tell that I have spent 12 hours in the car today.....mabe later if I have a place to sleep I will put up some pictures I took today

By the way Blackberry Green tea frapiccino's are yummmy

Nebraska!!!

Well I started my drive out to CA yesterday and I have made it to Nebraska. Nothing to eventful happened along my drive just tried to keep from getting to bored but I did learn a couple of things while driving through Iowa.....
1. There are way to many bugs out this time of year. I had to make a special stop to wash my windshield so that I could see where I was going.
2. The farms in Iowa smell very bad. I think I needed a nose plug
3. The rest stops in Iowa have wireless internet access.....at least thats what all the rest stop signs said.

well now it is time for me to get on the road again.

Adventures of the eggheads

Well this weekend myself and randi took a little trip over to Michigan for Laura and Georgia's shower. It was great to see everyone and we had tons of adventures. To many to even talk about. Laura doesn't know it yet but as you can see by the picture of Georgia, Randi and I converted Georgia into an egghead so she could be just like us. It was defintely a long drive especially in the pouring rain but it was well worth it. A couple of things that I learned this weekend are:
1. Always travel with someone who has triple AAA so that when the car runs out of gas or your car falls of the edge of a driveway, they can save you
2. When you gotta go, you gotta go......but always look closer at the center console there may be something there that could be useful to you.
3. Georgia has grown a ton since the last time I saw her and by the time I see her again she will be huge and able to do all sorts of fun stuff.
4. I am super glad that I made the trip and got so see so many of my good friends, eventhough by going to MI it means that I am going to drive through 11 states in less than a week.

Where I've been in the US

create your own visited states map.

I saw this on Heather S's blog and thought it would be neat to post. I think that I need to visit the southeast a little more. Maybe if I am lucky I will get to go to Alaska and fight some fires this summer

Oh How I want to Kayak

Today I went up to my grandparents to get my Kayak out of storage so that I can take it out west with me. It was nice and sunny out today so it really made me want to take it out for a spin on a lake. Its to bad that most of the lakes around here still have ice on them or are way to cold to kayak on without a wet suit. Plus I haven't used it in over a year since I didn't take it with me last season, so I really want to get out and use it. Oh well hopefully when I get up to the CA mountians it will have stopped snowing and i can use it before the crew goes available.

Since I couldn't go kayaking I decided to post a couple of pictures from my trip to South America. The pictures are from Machu Pichau in Peru. I would post more from S. America cuz I took a bunch of awesome pictures but I lost them when my camera was stolen. yes I know that it is a sad thing.


well back to wishing it was summer and the trees had leaves on them!!!!

Land of dinosaurs

My nephew is very into dinosaurs right now, so while he was here over the weekend I took some pictures of him playing in what he calls his dinosaur nest aka "the pit". We went to his spring program on Thursday and got to hear him and the other preschoolers sing a song about sheep. I also attempted to make Jello Jiggler eggs with him ad let me tell you that was an adventure. I don't think the molds that I used had been used in quite some time and well lets just say they were a little warped and leaked a small amount. But we still had fun and thats all that matters