Kewl Leslie!! Thank you for sharing! I just looovve old buildings!

Aren't those marzipan figures cool?? I would love to have bought some and brought them back, but that would've been a little tough. And hey - I didn't know you could pirate my pictures!! Hmmmm . . .

Sorry Leslie, I didn't think I was doing anything that wasn't readily available by posting that picture. I didn't have to hack into anything to do it, the link you gave simply let me cut and paste any of the pictures. Again, my apologies. It looks like you had a great trip!

Hi Kids ! What a busy lot we are! Leslie-Great pics,thanks for sharing. Beware the Bats and pithair.You're too much!! Nice ride for you Arla ! That sounds very nice.DW and I brought the kids out west about 3yrs ago.Flew to Vegas,drove to the Grand Canyon.Spent a couple days then drove rented van around the east side of GC ,up to Zion Canyon where we stayed.Then up to Bryce Canyon for a night as well.Some of those places we felt like we were on another planet!! Big work project this week but the running has gone well.Out twice this week(tomorrow will be 3 )for 5am runs under the full moon.Didn't see the eclipse but the moonsets have been nice! C ya's

No workout this a.m. Don't know what's going on with me right knee, but I think I'm gonna have to go to the doctor. Ibu is not doing the trick. However, it's not gonna keep me from running trails tomorrow . . . just from getting up at 5:00 to do aerobics!! We're suppose to get a pretty good storm coming through here. It's already starting to rain. Hub said he heard there's suppose to be 80 mph gusts tomorrow. That should making running in the woods interesting. Watch out for falling trees and branches! With the storm clouds forming, we had a real pretty sunrise. It looked like the sun was going down, the clouds were ascending so quickly. Also, we live right in the heart of the flight path for the Aleutian Geese that nest here for the next few months. They sleep just a few miles south of us and fly just a few miles north of us each morning to feed, and they fly right over a our house. There had to have been a couple of thousand in 30+/- groups of various sizes this morning, honking, regrouping. It was pretty cool. When it gets real foggy - and we live on the coast, so we have a lot of fog - they fly really low. A couple of years ago at night, there were 6 or 7 of us in the parking lot of my husband's work. We were BBQ-ing and having a few beers while a local artist worked on a mural on the front of the store. He was using an overhead projector to project the figures on the wall and then outline them before painting. During this, an enormous V of geese flew overhead. They were just below the cloud cover, and the cloud cover was lit up by the city lights. In that V alone, we figured there were probably close to 600-700 geese, and they looked ghostly white because of the lights and clouds. In the middle of all this, the artist's assistant's girlfriend showed up. She's a firedancer and she'd brought her equipment to do a firedance for us. It was a pretty cool night! Hope you all have a great Friday and weekend. And I'm 42 tomorrow!

3.1 this morn 15 degrees but no wind, got waay hot with my usual layer combo for 10-20 degrees but not a breath of wind this morning. Pretty glorius morning, diidn't see anyone else on my road and didn't hear a sound except for mourning doves when I got back close to our place and trees. Its warming up very nicely here today, be our luck it will be warm here while we are gone.

Sorry for exploding the width of this thread with my picture post. Blame it on Leslie! Speaking of Leslie, have a great birthday!