Road Trip!

My assignment this last week was to drive my middle kiddle all the way back to college in her great new car. She first of course had to face the grim reality that she will now be pumping her own gas. This took a little training session but she passed with flying colors. My mothering responsibilties with her are nearly done. Sniff, sniff....

You know my fascination with webcams - well here I am calling my youngest and so excited that she is viewing us on the famous geyser webcam in my sidebar. AND I am not the only crazy lady doing this, note the flag waving lady on the cell phone next to me. Why didn't I think to bring a flag, that is brilliant! Also, the algae colors in the paint pots were amazing this year.

This is my nostalgic visit to what tourists call "the faces", but there is much more to it than that. Sadly much had changed since I lived there, although Gutzy's sculptor studio was just as I

remembered it. And the new monument boardwalk with cleverly placed viewing platforms has my approval.

Lastly, I got to help set up this very spacious dorm apartment, at least it was spacious until 5 girls moved in with 69 boxes, 4 couches and 27 plastic tubs of personal goo and lotions.

Tough Assignment

My weekend assignment was to be the female chaperone of a teen group at the coast. No specific tasks were expected although I did fill a dish washer to the brim - twice. Other than that I set on this deck:

And took my homework along to this spot on the beach and began working:

It wasn't long before this began to deteriorate:

And before you know it .... zzzzzz........

Would You?

What would you endure to see something spectacular, would you:











Try to sleep like this?


Endure rain like this?

Try not to slip off of this?

In order to see this?

Yeah, right, go muscle girl!

And here's that amazing waterfall.

Speaking of balance...

We saw this waterfall on our family camping trip this weekend, plus more really amazing waterfalls we didn't know existed. And believe me we have visited alot of them!

Balance

It's a balanced man who can do both this:

and grow all this: