Happy Five-Oh 

50 candles on the cake!

I'm not sure how AARP knew, but their membership invitation letter arrived just in time for Chuck's birthday.  Yes, Chuck turned 50.  He started his birthday by staying home from work and going to the doctor. Yes, Chuck was sick on his birthday.  He'd been sick for awhile and finally went in and got put on antibiotics.   After going to the doctor Chuck went to work, and because it was the end of the month ended up staying late to finish reports. By the time he got home he was tired and sick and opted to watch TV for his birthday activity. So that's what we did. We ate a birthday dinner, had some birthday brownies, opened up some birthday presents, and watched some birthday TV.  Happy five-oh Chuck!

Comic Con Scavenger Hunt

On Saturday Chuck and I participated in a scavenger hunt around downtown sponsored by our local con.  Wearing costumes we raced around town with 10 clues trying to find 10 locations.   Each location had some cosplayers whom we would get raffle tickets from and took pictures with.  We had 4 hours to find all the locations, collect the tickets, and take the photos.  Being a team of two adults (Ruth and Jared didn't want to come), we did pretty well finding the clues.  We got lost with the homeless people one time, and another time went to where the Opera offices were rather than where they preform, and one clue we found accidentally when we turned down a side road to turn around and then saw the clue, but in the end we were the 24th team to check in and we won two passes to all three days of comic con, worth $120 and have been entered into a raffle for more prizes.  Not bad.  We had a good time and met lots of nice people. 

Backpacking with the Scouts

Jared did his first hike-in backpacking trip with the scouts last weekend.  He hiked several miles and over 1000 feet with his troup to a lake.  He didn't like the hiking, but said the lake was pretty fun.  He took his yo-yo along and did tricks as they hiked to pass the time.