Stargazing and Geocaching

Last night I took Jessica out star gazing because I knew that tonight and tomorrow it was going to be cloudy.

We initially tried to see things from the back yard, but my neighbors have a minor sun glowing on their front porch at night, which fully drowns out everything but mars and leaves one night blind and stepping in dog crap in the yard. So I suggested we hop in the car and speed over to a local very high dark hill.

I'm glad we went. I suck at constellations, I thought the Pleides (spelling???) was the Little Dipper. Retard. This is what I get for growing up in the city, eh?

She knows a lot, I was incredibly surprised. We should have brought blankets, we could have stayed out there a lot longer. As was, she was in shorts and fresh out of the shower. I took off my coat and we sat on it... spent about a half hour trying to figure out where the hell Cassiopeia (did I spell that right???) was.

I saw three shooting stars.

There was no moon out.

We got home close to 11pm on a school night. And it was fun. We had all kinds of good laughs, and I really enjoyed myself. Wish I could do something like that more often. Perhaps if the meteor showers are going to be impressive this November she'll want to go out with me.

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Oh, back over to the topic of geocaching for a minute, I totally forgot to mention this... I ordered some Travel Bug tags recently and today, in honor of my parents' 38th wedding anniversary I do something tacky, mean spirited and funny (with nothing but love in my heart)... I release The Grandma Travel Bug.

Yes, Grandma is now officially one for the ages. I have a tag on her and she's ready to rock. I may run up tomorrow morning and put her in our Geocache, and hope someone comes along and grabs her.

Go visit her page and laugh. I plan on adding info on her to the Grandma's Adventures webpage, and of course to my geocaching log once that's all put together.

I could have sent flowers or something. But wouldn't you rather be immortalized by your rotten kid in such a way? You know you would.

Anyway. I'm afraid I don't have much of interest to discuss here today. As usual the monkey reference log is updated. We went out caching last night, here are a couple of pictures. And I'm so incredibly lazy that I'm not even going to reduce their size. I'm leaving them huge.

Sorry this isn't more substantial, but. meh.