Old Friends & New Adventures...

This weekend was a lot of fun! It started off with myself meeting up with my mom and a few family friends for happy hour food & drinks at El Toritos. Then I caught up with some friends from high school at the Cooler. It was nice... I hadn't seen my friend Shawn for gosh, I think we figured it's been like 6 plus years! Also saw two other friends we graduated with and one that was a year younger. It was nice to catch up with everyone. Sometimes I feel like these "catching up" times are awkward, but it wasn't like that with us. It was really nice to know that everyone is doing well and that we don't have to see each other all the time to still be able to keep in touch.

Saturday morning I woke up pretty early and the best thing happened to me... you all will have to wait and find out later though. I don't want to speak to soon and ruin anything... =)

Mike and I took Hailey and JD to Spring Creek on Saturday. We threw the ball around a little and played on the playground... remembering how things were when we were little and realizing how little we actually were back then! (the monkey bars and everything else feels so short now!) Oh, those were the days... so carefree and easy. The days where our biggest worry was what shoes to wear. Sometimes I wish life could be that easy again but I don't think I'd go back if I could. I like being challenged and I like being put just outside of my comfort zone. It helps me discover new joys in life and also allows me to grow.

After going to the school we decided to go feed the ducks at Alton Baker Park. It was gorgeous outside, I even broke out my shorts! We grabbed some cheerios and off we went. We walked around to different areas of the park and saw a handful of different types of birds. Over on the east side of the street we found these HUGE geese that were sticking their tongue out and hissing at us as we were walking up. Ok... they weren't that big... but their necks were bigger than my arms! Mike is much braver than I am and he decides to feed these things out of his hand. I'm freaked out just watching. He tells me that we aren't going to leave until I hand-feed them. I'm thinking he's nuts... these are the geese he said had sharp teeth afterall. He put an entire handful of cheerios into my hand and I stuck it out there. The geese walked up and I would panic a little and throw the cheerios at them. This happened two or three times. Then I finally, with a little help from Mike, let both of these geese grab a bite from my hand. Then I was more than happy to go back to the smaller geese and the cute little ducks. It was a beautiful day out and we had a lot of fun. Well worth the fear of being eaten by the giant geese. =)

Later Saturday night Kim and Alex (my friend from Bend and her husband) came to visit. We just sat around, watched a little Grease and caught up. It was nice to see them! Kim was flying out of Eugene to go to Vegas Sunday but it was nice to see them, even if it was just for a little bit of time. Kim talking about Vegas makes me very excited to go! The family (Dad, Mom & Hannah) is going the 20th through the 27th. I will be down there the 24th through the 27th... couldn't get the entire week off work. I've never been to Vegas so I'm extremely excited. Plus, Hannah turns 21 on St. Patrick's Day so she'll be 21 when we go! It's going to be a lot of fun. Sounds like we get to see this circus show, which from what I've heard is absolutely a must-see! The whole trip should be a lot of fun. Can't wait to go!

Yesterday was kind of an adventure too. I decided that I wanted to try Geocaching. For those of you who don't know what Geocaching is... it's basically like a treasure hunt. You're given the GPS coordinates to a spot where a 'cache' is hidden. The 'cache's' can be all different sizes, most of what we were searching for yesterday were considered micro or small. They are can be filled with pretty much anything, but from the sounds of it, most have a 'log book' or a sheet of paper where you write the date and your name. Mike had mentioned doing this before so off we went! We had a little bit of trouble with the GPS we were using... it wouldn't take us off the road. Determined to figure out a way to make it work, I downloaded an app on my phone and we were off! Started up in Morse Park and had no luck there. We then headed down to campus. There are a lot of these things on campus! We looked for a couple more there and still had no luck. We did however come across a group of probably 50 people who were doing LAIR (Live Action Interactive Roleplaying Explorers) or something similar. These people were dressed up in some sort of costume... there were a lot of men wearing skirts. They all had shields and foam weapons. There was even a flag put out. It was almost just like Role Models, right there in front of us. We sat down on a bench to watch and get a good laugh. They split up into two groups, one group were pheasants, they had to be on their knees. The other were knights and they were on their feet. There was about 4 knights per about 15 pheasants. It was interesting and oh so entertaining. These people were totally serious too. Anyways, we ended up heading back to park near my apartment to look for one last cache. This one didn't have any hints so we get there and are thinking it could be anywhere. We were getting ready to leave and Mike says, Maybe it's under the lightpost. He gets down on the ground and sure enough, there it was! We found one! Mike put our names with the date on the sheet of paper inside the little key box as well as a broken key we kind of found earlier. He re-hid it and we went back to my apartment. We were excited that we found one... we were thinking the day was going to be a failure or that I was bad luck, but it wasn't and I'm not! =) Anyways, it was a lot of fun and I'm hoping that we can go find some ones that are a hike in. Something big out in the woods!

Overall I had a great weekend... I love the weekends. I wish that I could the weekends and weekdays were reversed. I would like to work two days and have five day weekends please! Only in my dreams I suppose. ;) It's only Monday and I'm already anxious for the weekend.

I had a good quick chat with Tiff tonight... we are so much alike. I think we think so much the same, or overthink things the same way! It was nice to know that I'm not the only one and I hope I helped her out too just by her knowing that she's not the only one either.

Well, I'm absolutely exhausted from my non-stop weekend so I'm going to catch up on a few shows and go to bed here really soon! I hope everyone else had a good weekend.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our soul blossom. ~ Marcel Proust