Well, I got back to town yesterday and today reality sent it and I had to go back to work. Right now I am hot, tired, and my back is itching because I am starting to peel!
Lake Havasu was great, the Bratcher clan was out in full force. There were approx. 31 people in our group. There were 6 little ones from 10 1/2 weeks to 4 years old, a couple of teens, then the rest were from the early 20's to 76. It was great to see everyone again and I got to meet two new additions to the extended family. Wed, thurs, Fri we had perfect weather. Sat and Sun it was up to 111 degrees. You cannot tell it is that hot when you are out on the Lake. You can tell if you go back into the campground during the day. It is down in a cove and there is no breeze. We typically leave the campground around 8 AM and return around 6 PM, you eat, shower, and then usually pass out from being out in the sun all day. We were lucky enough to find a sand/rock bar that would fit all of us. One of the cousins would stay the night out there on the sandbar so that we would not have to bring everything in each night. I have pics and asa soon as I load them I will post them. Hopefully I will feel like doing this tomorrow after work :)
As of 3 hours ago I am officially on vacation! As soon as I pulled out of that parking lot I turned off my leash (nextel). I have not taken more than a day at a time off since I took a few days off for Christina's bachlorette party last year. 3 weeks ago I maxed out my vaca hours at 160 hours. That is the point where you stop accuring hours. I am going to Lake Havasu tomorrow and returning on Monday. Even though it is going to be hot I do not care. You live in the water all day any way and stay in the motorhome with A/C in the evening.......
My moms extended family goes every June. I went every year as kid but when you growup and go to work it does not work out as much anymore. Most of my birthdays growing up were spent at the Cattail Cove campground in Havasu. Now a days it seems as if kids get out of school earlier. I cannot wait (can't you tell). The last time I went was in 05. Hopefully I get some good pics that I can post. Ok, well I am off to finish packing and make some cold chicken pasta salad to take (it is too hot for hot food).
Peace out
I am on vacation!
Wow, where has the first half of the year gone? I worked another charity event fro work today. This one was down in Coronado at the bay. It was Bay 2 Bay, riders could use any human powered water craft and row/paddle/etc from either Shelter Island or Mission bay to Coronado tidelands park. It was a 20 or 5 mile course. I did the 20 mile (yeah right!) - we fed all the participants and their families lunch at the finish line. the morning started out gloomy and windy. Today had the worst water conditions in the 25 years that they have been doing this. The evnet benefits the YMCA. I guess the participants had to deal with a head wind and very choppy water, they made the most rescues today then they have in all past events. All in all it was a good day. I just woke up from a quick nap and know I need to get ready to go to dinner with some friends and then I am not sure what we are doing from there. Ok, well I just wanted to send out a quick blog since it has been more than a week since my last post. I will get this under control one day......... Until then - See ya!
Not much to blog about. I saw 2 movies this weekend. yesterday I saw "What Happens in Vegas" with Ashton Kutcher and Cameron Diaz. I loved it, I was laughing from beginning to end. It did not have any dull moments - the beginning makes me want to go to vegas :)
Today I went and saw the new Indiana Jones. I enjoyed it, a little corny but it was still entertaining. I liked it better than Ironman. Harrison Ford still looks good, he makes it look so easy. I am waiting to see "the Happening" it looks scary and suspensful. It comes out Friday June 13th but I will be at Lake havasu so I will have to wait a week to see it. Ok, well I need to go and fry the corn tortillas to put on top of my chicken tortilla soup that I made last night. So see ya later........................
Here are pictures of the ceramic ice cream bowl that I made a few weeks. I forgot to pictures of it up. I told you it looked like a kindergartener made it :)
I realized that I never put pictures up when I went to eat my new fav ice cream (mint karaoke) in it last night during Greys Anatomy. If you watch Grey's, last nights episode was hilarious, it is finally getting back to the humor it had during the first season. I am still waiting for that Mer/Der reunion though.
Ok, I do not have anything more to post. I played hookey from work today. It had been crazy/busy these last few weeks and I needed a little break. I have so many vacation and sick hours saved up. I have only used 1 vacation day so far this year. I still have 19 and counting left. I am taking a week off in June to go to Lake Havasu, I cannot wait. I have not been in 3 years. I will try and post another blog this weekend. I do not have anything great planned. My mom wants to go and see Iron Man on sunday, but it depends what time she returns from the desert. She wants my brother and I to take her for part of Mother's day. My brother is so hard to get hold of these days, hopefully we can all make it. I did plan on seeing this movie but I guess I do not have a choice. I saw Made of Honor earlier this week. Despite is being predictable it was still a very cute movie. Plus it starred McDreamy - can't go wrong there!
Just thought I would check in to blogger since I have not been on since Tuesday. Not much going on. This was a pretty uneventful weekend. I did go and spend $ yesterday. I went shopping at the Carlsbad Company Outlet stores with my bff Sarah and her 2 kids. I bought 2 pairs of sketchers for work, and 2 purses from the Dooneyand Burke outlet. One of them though I am putting away for my mom, for her bday later this year or christmas. (if I can stop myself from showing it to her before then).. I just could not pass up the sale. Plus I had my tax rebate deposited to my account on Saturday. I have not done much today besides laundry. I feel like I am starting to get a sinus infection - those are always fun. We switched insurance carriers at work as of May 1 and they assigned me some random doctor even though I put down my current doctor who is on their list. So now I have to go to their website and find my doctor all over again. What was the point of them asking me for the info if they were going to do what they wanted..... UGH!
I just thought that I would throught a random picture up. This is one of my dog JessJess that I took last week. Too cute!
