Four Day Weekend!

I'm a little off with the weekly posts I recently started. There is no menu plan this week and Garden Tuesday is going to be Garden Wednesday...



...because....



... I spent the weekend here

and here

(with a beautiful mountain top view ... from in a cloud.)

and here


with these fine people!

Photo Shoots: Friends and a Wedding

Just to show a bit of the fun I've been having lately.

For the wedding, I took a few fun photos after the ceremony, while the professional photographer had a short break.


(They were practicing their dance moves for the Reception Entrance.)

Camping again

This time it was a bit colder. Note the frost on the grill and all the people staying around the fire.

So, I really haven't been caming all that much, but this is the first time I remember being kept awake by an animal. A pesky racoon. A pesky and persistent racoon! After Ryan had already been out of the tent a few different times to move trash and other easy-to-get items, the darn racoon came back and tried to steal our bread - which was in a small plastic tote. He almost succeeded in dragging it into the woods. This time I got up, but was so scared the racoon was going to bite me for taking it's food/toy/loot.

Well, I successfully secured the bread box without a bite and tucked back in, when, a few minutes later the 'coon came back and OPENED one of our big totes and took the ... picinic tablecloth? What a pest. That isn't even food and he still tried to get it. I estimate it was about 4am; Ryan and another of our friends took all the large totes and coolers and secured them in the truck.

Maybe 15 mintues later I heard loud clanging and rummaging noises at our 'neighbors' camp site. So much for sleeping in peace.

Fall Fun

A few of the things you can find at a small-town Fall Festival. :-)

Camping

Morning at the beach.

A Photo Shoot

Some friends are celebrating their 1 year wedding anniversary this weekend. They had me I take some photos to help them celebrate. Here's a few of my favorites.







Happy Anniversary Matt & Joy!

Entertainment

Hey, let's jump and take a picture of it.

Umm... watch out for the volleyball, that could hurt.

Girl on the left says: Hey, this is fun.
Here's another idea. Let's go get ugly clothes and jump in those.

Frame #1: Ready, set...


Ahhhh!! Weee!!!

Frame #2: Jump!









Ugh.
Frame #3: The landing.












Never said jumping pictures were attractive, just fun.
In conclusion, jumping pictures, fun to take and fun to look at.

Almost Midnight

Are you ever too excited to go to bed? For example, if you're taking a vacation, possibly getting on a plane early in the morning. Or taking a day off work because you can. Or taking a day off to start a mini-vacation to see one of your best friends and hang out with 4 girls all weekend!
That's me.
Annual Girls Weekend starts tomorrow!

It began two years ago at World's of Fun.
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Last year we took our dogs camping.
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This year we're headed out-on-the-town.

The group of girls changes from year to year, but it's always a reason for one of my good friends from college and I to get together.
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One other thought at this time of night, this is still a great book!!