Thursday, May 29, 2008

Summer vacation whirlwind continues....

Yesterday we made treasure maps (tea stained and oiled to make them authentic, of course), treasure balls (with actual treasure inside!), had a string maze AND played Ninja Warrior (Japanese obstacle course). PHEW....I'm tired!


Logan trying to unravel the string maze for the prize at the end.
The prize was the treasure map!
Ninja warriors in action!
Break for a pose!
After a long day.....

Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Weird News Wednesday

Turkey flies into courthouse window, leaves turkey-shaped hole
This story refers to it as a "whole," but never mind that.... Christine Hernandez thought someone was firing at the building and began thinking about her kids and making it out of the building alive. Such drama in Lubbock, Texas!

http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/052008/loc_280851390.shtml

When it rains, go hiking!

The boys and I were looking for something to do yesterday so we decided to go explore the base. There is a lot of nookies and crannies to find here and we took full advantage of it. First we went to the Sumay village cemetary. I explained to the boys what it was and we paid our respects to those who came before us. Then we decided to check out some of the caves left from the Japanese occupation. The Japanese used forced labor to build a series of four caves, all interlocking, in the side of a cliff. We started to climb up a rope to see into the cave but it started to rain pretty hard so we had to leave and save that for another day.
Next we drove towards the beach and I had intended on going to a cliff so the boys could look out across the ocean but the road was blocked. I pulled over just past the sign and started taking pictures of some chickens (It still cracks me up that there are chickens and boonie dogs on base!) when a white truck started towards us. He was driving by but I used it as my opportunity for yet another adventure....yes I do have a WILD imagination. I told the boys that they were coming after us to give me a ticket for going past the do not enter sign. I quickly jumped in the van and proceeded to drive quickly down the road...with the white truck "following". I took a short cut down a gravel path to the old flightline. A big blue mac truck was driving back and forth on the flightline so I told the boys that he was the boss of the person in the white truck knowing full well that he was at the end of the road and had to turn around (and follow us!). The boys totally ate this up. Once we got onto the real road I told them to be on the lookout for the white truck (for those of you that haven't been here, the white trucks are everywhere because they work for housing!). We saw several and each time the boys would start yelling "There he is!!!". It was a hilarious time for all of us.


We had fun painting some rocks.
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Saturday, May 24, 2008

Saturday Project

Before After


Did you know that there is now a spray paint for plastic? It's called Krylon Fusion. I think it's the greatest thing although I'm not particularly fond of spray paints. I'm a perfectionist and with spray paint it's very hard to get things exactly how you want them. I purchased this kitchen from a yard sale for $3! It's for Logan's school. They don't have a lot but my goal this summer is to change that. What I'm really looking for is a plastic slide because they don't have anything for the little kids to play on. I'm not all that thrilled with how this came out but I'm excited how well my hibiscus stencils look.

Friday, May 23, 2008

First day of summer vacation!

Logan's out of school now so I'm busy trying to find things to keep them out of trouble. The first thing that we did today was a blast. They took apart our old cordless phones! They spent almost two hours dissecting them. I've got to get to a thrift shop to buy some more old broken things for them to take apart.


After Chris came home we went to the Japanese dollar store and gave them each $5 to spend on whatever they wanted. The karate kids found what they were looking for.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Weird News Wednesday

Gold Toothpick-Earwax Spoon Found

The tiny grooming tool discovered on the sea floor off Key West, Florida, is just the latest treasure revealed during the hunt for the shipwrecked Spanish galleon Santa Margarita. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080520-gold-toothpick.html

Can you say ewwwww? That's gross enough to make me gag. I mean, how much earwax can a person have to warrant a spoon???

Monday, May 19, 2008

The 3rd man to walk on water!

The first man was Jesus, the second was Peter the Apostle
and then came.....Jose.