So, here I sit at Dunkin Donuts at 10:55 pm Monday to stay connected. It was bad enough I couldn't blog yesterday, as we were travelling home (an unusually uneventful day of air travel, thankfully...) and couldn't blog when I got home because our Internet wasn't working. And obviously still isn't working, or I wouldn't be sitting here at DD this late at night. What is working in my favor is I am still on Mountain Time...I guess I must be hooked on this blogging business.

So first, before I even label the photos, let me apologize to my dear friend Maria, one of my faithful readers. It was actually Maria who had the conversation with Erin, not Gwen, so Gwen, get reading, and Maria, I am sorry :)

The first two photos are from Saturday in Utah. The first shows real spring water. I decided that I was not to be outdone in the hiking department by my triathletic crazy husband, who hiked to the summit of the mountain at snowbird and took the tram down (I admit, a bit backwards) but since he did it, I decided I was going to do do it too. So off I went on my hike UP. I only had my one bottle of water and it was pretty warm and did I mention UP? over 3,000 vertical feet to just over 11,000. Did I mention altitude woozies? Well, I had them. And I got thirsty about half way up too, and had had my one bottle of water. So what was I supposed to do? Well, I knew better, but I filled the bottle with "fresh" spring water from the runoff of melting snow. If I don't get sick in the next couple of days, I made it through...I will say, it was COLD!

Then, there was plenty of snow still on the face of the mountain. So much so that some really crazy people lift up and then hike to the patches and are still skiing and riding. If Matt were there, he would be one of them. So that is my foot in the snow. I just couldn't resist!

In the meantime, Tianna missed our trip and all the opportunities it would have provided for her to fight with her sister so she could stay home and play softball. They lost their first game, but won tonight! I even pulled out ball (ten years ago they were baseball mitts, now they have morphed to softball mits) earrings for good luck. And tonight it worked they won twenty something to single digits, and the photo is Tianna with her friend Blair's mom after the game.

So what did I do today?

Before the game I cleaned one of the bathrooms in desperate need of cleaning. There were even several splatters of nail polish, pink and shimmery lavender on the tile. Then Tianna went through her clothes informing me that she needed to wear her things at least five times each. The next sentence was a request to go school shopping to Hollister and AE since she is getting older now. I guess Old Navy is chopped liver. Well, I said you will need to wear things a whole lot more than five times, honey if you expect me to shop at Hollister or AE. Doctor's salary or not (Don't get me started on that topic, anyway) I prefer to shop at the Salvation Army, where in fact, I can find lots of H and AE. So I got two whole rooms cleaned! Woo hoo! You absolutely SHOULD NOT see the rest of the house. Maybe by September...

OK, it is way late, even for Mountain time!