YUMMY?

Can you believe this YUMMY looking cupcake is SOAP? It looks SO good that I wanted to eat it! Brings new meaning to wash your mouth out with soap! LOL

Wanna See What We Got?

On Friday, we got a new toy for our Bearded Kitty.



Isn't he the cutest!?!?

He was adopted from in front of Von's. We've wanted a Tiger kitty for a long time and now we have one.

In these pictures, he actually looks big, but he's hiding under the bed and I'm laying flat on the floor so that gives you kind of an idea of how small he really is. Compared to Bearded Kitty OH MY!




Speaking of Bearded Kitty. How does he like his new toy? Well, he was a little apprehensive for the first few minutes......



But, they are becoming fast friends. They chase each other up and down the hallway and tumble around and wrestle and just have a good ole time. Yes, I think Bearded Kitty quite likes his new buddy!

Utah Road Trip (Part 2 - Finally!)

Yes, I finally have a life again so I can finish posting the Utah Road Trip pictures. Or maybe I did have a life and that's what kept me from posting and now I have no life so I have time to post. Either way....Here we go....

I had left you at this picture of my poor car.....

Funny, it still looks that way even though I've washed it many times since then. Not really! Now it's covered with bird poop because the silly birds like to sit on the side mirrors to look at themselves. I've resorted to putting plastic bags over the mirrors every time I park.

Now....back to the road trip...

Beautiful Ogden, Utah....It's situated right at the base of these mountains. This is the view from one of the schools.


Another view from another corner.....


And another.......


And another.....


A look at old downtown Ogden....



They have a dinosaur park there.....

but we only got to see it from the car because it was closed being Easter Sunday and all (imagine that).

There's also a train museum......


but it was closed too. We did get to explore all of the trains outside though...




I even got to drive one......



While we were in Utah, we bought a house......


With lots of room....

Overlooking a lake....


Wanna come visit? Too bad. Escrow fell through...Haha.
It's actually The Man's aunt and uncle's house.
And, guess what?
They weren't home so it was closed too. Are you sensing the theme of the day here? Don't try to sightsee on Easter Sunday in Utah.

Next day....On the road again...going back home


Yes, that is a squash buggy (or slug bug).

If you look really close in this next picture, you can see the Great Salt Lake. I can't believe we went all the way to Utah and this is all I got to see of it.



We did get to see the Salt Flats though....




And a lot more of this....


Well, that was it.....The Great Utah Road Trip from April 2010.

Stay tuned for more adventures....

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

That's how I feel after the past five days!

Papers, Papers

Guess what I've been doing today?

Trying to clean up this:



I'm doing the paper-shredding chacha. Wow! What a lot of paperwork accumulates in one school year. And, I'm one of the organized ones. I'd hate to see what it would look like if I wasn't.

School's Out For Summer!

Tomorrow's actually the "official" last day of work, but all the report cards are signed, sealed and off in the mail. All the student's new courses are ordered for next year. The only thing left to do is mail the time card (and clean out files - lots of files).

DD had a great first year of high school. She did well in all of her courses and even ended up with some extra credits to her name. Afraid that she would get bored over the summer, she decided to do 2 Summer classes (Music Theory and Spanish 2) and dive into some of her English coursework for next year already too.

With some time off, I hope to be on here more regular-like and update with more stories of our adventures.

Awesome Road Trip - Utah Style

Well, I actually don't know what "Utah" style is, but it was a road trip TO Utah.

Of course, it wouldn't be a Carol adventure unless there was some type of mishap. And, it was only a few hours into the trip.......

Snow.....

LOTS of snow......

The online weather DID NOT forecast snow.

We needed chains.

We didn't have chains.

We bought chains. But.....

we had Sam put the chains on the car.



Conversation in the car on Donner Summit:
Me: "It is VERY lonely out here. Now you can see why those people in the Donner party died and the survivors had to eat each other."
The Man: "Where was CHP?"

Oh My! (Of course if you don't know about the Donner party or CHP it won't be funny. For those who do, enjoy the laugh. I sure did!)


Forty miles later.....We took the chains off. (Sorry no pictures of that. It was just plain TOO COLD to be taking pictures OUTSIDE of the car.)



We arrived in Reno....late....much later than expected due to the whole snow-thing.



Stayed the night there at Circus, Circus and we were on the road again EARLY the next morning. (This is us LEAVING town, rather than coming into town.)



And, we're off.......

Rollin', rollin', rollin'

What the $*(%?

Did we make a wrong turn?

This "Beverly Hills" must be REALLY exclusive because NOBODY lives here.


Rollin', rollin', rollin'

Rollin', rollin, rollin'


WOW! That is one LONG road with absolutely nothing on it. Dang good thing we had snacks!

Honestly, we did stop at a truck stop to get some gas and play a slot machine.

Several thousand miles later....actually it's only about 850 miles I believe....We arrived in Ogden.



My poor car.....just look at it.


One of the first things we did was wash that puppy to get rid of all the salt and muck and get her sparklin' again.

to be continued...........(Why? Because the State of California says that in order to keep a teaching credential all teacher's must take 4 MORE college courses before a certain date......so I have to do HOMEWORK on Spring Break....Imagine that?)

Spring Break

Spring Break is only hours away! I can see it from here! I love my job, but everyone needs a break every once in awhile (even from something they love).

And, with Spring Break comes.............

ROAD (FIELD) TRIP


Wonder what wild and crazy adventures this one brings.

IT'S SNOWING!

We woke up to snow flurries this morning! Two days ago it was tank top and shorts weather.

I'm running through the house shouting, "It's snowing, It's snowing!" DD says to me, "You get more excited about the snow than a 2 year old." Hey, what can I say? As long as I don't have to go drive in it, bring it on!

However, it is a major distraction. I have to look out the window every 23 seconds to see if it's still coming down, and I should be concentrating on getting all of this work done by Friday so I don't have to do it over Spring Break.

Monterey/Carmel Day Trip

We went to Monterey and Carmel on Saturday. It was a gorgeous, sunny and warm day, kind of unusual for that area. Love it, beach, sand, and sun. Love the smell of the ocean, the crashing of the waves. Great day! But.........a true "Carol" trip would never be complete without some kind of mishap. Luckily, this one happend BEFORE we got on the road.

We went to the casino for dinner Friday night (yummy omelettes!), and when we came out to the car, there was a flat tire. Looking on the bright side.....it didn't happen on the road, at night with no lights, in the middle of a rainstorm. It happened in the parking garage with bright lights and a roof over our heads. After 20 minues, we were on the road with this stylin' spare tire.


So...our first stop on the trip to Monterey on Saturday morning was to the tire shop.

And, of course, I get questioned, "Why are you taking a picture of the tire shop?" My answer, "I'm writing a book." That usually stops the questions......

Next stop on our adventure......the side of the road to set the GPS system. I don't know why one needs a GPS system to get to a place they've driven to at least 500 times before, but hey, it was another great photo opportunity for me.


Next stop...I think it was Jack in the Box. Not for me....I ate a wholesome oatmeal breakfast at home before leaving, and packed good snacks for munching in the car. I'm no novice when it comes to road trips. I come prepared. (But, no bananas allowed in the car. Don't want a repeat of that Reno incident. - Joke for those who were there and know what I'm talking about.)

We drove into Carmel the backway (known only to locals) to avoid the traffic jams on the main highway. We past so many quaint little beach cottages. So cute! Oh, and we drove past Clint Eastwood's house as well. I couldn't see the house because of the gate and the trees, but I did see he has a nice car. We walked through the Plaza (I think that's what it's called). A bunch of little shops. The best (for me at least) was the toy shop because I found a gross kid's book about bodily functions that apparently only I could appreciate. I have no idea what else the store had because I read the book while others browsed. We did not spend enough time browsing through the shops because one of our entourage was having an "I need to eat" meltdown. On the way to eat lunch, we did however drive along the ocean looking at some not-so-quaint oceanfront homes with spectacular views of the water.

On to lunch at El Torrito's in Monterey. The portion sizes were tiny. I mean REALLY tiny. But, it's right on the water and the view is spectacular. Here's the view form our table.

After our late lunch, we were off to do some antique shopping. Shopping, that's all we ever do at antique stores. Never buying. We save the buying for the thrift stores were we usually find lots of treasures. No thrift stores today though.

After antiquing, we went to a BBQ. And, then a late night drive home. Sounds like we did a lot of eating, but really we didn't considering that we were gone from early morning until nearly midnight. All in all, a very nice trip.

Can't wait to see what our next adventure holds for us as we head off to Utah sometime during Spring Break.