It’s about time

Hello folks! Brian is waiting for me so I shouldn’t take too long, but it’s been too long since I’ve written! We took a nice long walk around down to 99E and past Mills End and back, playing on the train tracks and oohing and ahhing at the large machinery (train engines etc.). I am so excited! I am going to get the UB job! (that’s the one I was applying for… a “Universal Banker”) We all were in a good mood down at the bank today; for example, Jason brought his dog to the office at about 4:20 and we all enjoyed seeing him romp about while there weren’t any customers. (it was a quiet tuesday – too hot for people to be out and about.)

I haven’t posted about camping so I’ll do a little now. Sorry that this post is so scattered, that’s what happens when I’m in a hurry and have too much to catch up with! The first night we got there, a Saturday, there was still time to go out on the lake so I suited up and we all went wakeboarding and skiing with the coolest crowd around. Some of my favorite people were there (it was especially good to see family) and we had a blast. The air was warm, the water was really not all that bad! We did have wetsuits though, so it was really quite nice!! I had fun – the water over by the dam is much smoother than elsewhere on the lake and I skiied, getting used to the new boat’s huge wake. It is scary! You go to the outside of the lake and it’s like dropping off a short cliff. Then when you want to go back inside the wake, you aren’t sure if your skiis are going to get buried in the water-cliff-boiling-foaming-scary-tall-fast-scary-wakeiness… but you usually get back over the wake just fine.

A few highlights of the trip – I had several dramatic crashes (as everybody much have to have anything to report of when going skiing or wakeboarding, unless you can do a 360)… one of them skidding along on my back across the water. I also managed to ski slalom and felt pumped for having done that – it was great! The next morning I woke up with a severe pain and didn’t know where it was from, but I couldn’t move. Eventually I was on my feet (ask Brian, it took a long time) and when i laid down on a picnic table, my back popped and the pain was relieved. I have had some strange twinges and back-poppings since that worry me some, but the main bit is over – thank goodness! Needless to say, I did not ski any more. We did go swimming in a river that was a blast! We jumped off the tall rocks again as you can see by the picture of Abe taking the plunge… probably more because his girlfriend was there rather than by any real desire to fling himself from his warm perch into the ICE COLD water below. Well, it is really cold and it is scary jumping off of cliffs. 🙂

Ah – sweet memories. Most of my time when I’m not camping is taken up with going to work where I get to meet lots of people and learn how things go…. and I like to cook for my husband and I do not like dirty dishes. I have learned since I’ve been married that I prefer washing dirty dishes to folding laundry. Laundry is so boring!!!! Alas, but I predict much laundry in my future. Well, I am needed (yay!) and must run. I love you all – probably miss you 😉

ttyl
Rae