I think we've told a lot of people about geocaching, but if you haven't heard you should check out this website: www.geocaching.com Become a member for free!
From here you can find coordinates for caches that people have hidden all over the world; but also in your neck of the woods. You don't have to have a GPS, thanks to google you can can map anything pretty accurately... but having a GPS is really the main part of the game.
So you pick a treasure that you want to find, download it to your GPS and go look for it. They are hidden in trees and buildings and underwater. A lot of them out here seem to be ammo cans and film canisters. As I understand it, sometimes people put money in them so it's a real prize to be the FTF [first to find]. We are having lots of fun trekking through woodsy areas of our surrounding neighborhoods. It's usually somewhere that we otherwise wouldn't go. You have to be stealthy - part of the idea is to keep the cache a secret and not draw attention to the fact that there is something hidden in the big tree stump. We are devising where to hide our own caches. We are keeping a journal and take lots of pictures of our adventures. I also log back onto the website and report when we find a cache & any pertinent details. Some people have found thousands. We're up to 5, I think. Our "team" is named SPAZ-ZAH! [Sare Pete And Zoe-Zah]
The song in the video is "Sleepy Tigers" by Her Space Holiday.

Can hair have a mind of its own?

Good morning, Sunshine!

Helping Daddy Build Chairs

About the Ferry Video [below]

To make the video below I used Google's Picasa 3. It's free software and is so easy and fun to use. Making these slideshow movies is a breeze. I didn't think about how small the video would be on the blog when I did the subtitles so I'll make them easier to read next time.
Pete, Zoe, Auntie Constance, and I took the Edmonds-Kingston Ferry yesterday to the opening of The Grub Hut. Pete has been helping his friend Sean get his new burger joint running so we were invited to try the grub. It's pretty tasty stuff.
It was a beautifully sunny day yesterday but Kingston was surrounded by fog. It was weird taking the ferry to the island because we couldn't see anything at all. I was very impressed by the captain's skills as we slipped right up to the pier. I guess he's had some practice, right?

The song playing is Lisa Hannigan - I Don't Know Why.
You can download the mp3 for free from Amazon right now. I also really like the cover art on her album.

Ferry to Kingston

pretty girl

Look, her hair is laying down today! Her eyes look brown in this photo, but they are still gold & gray most days. We love her puffy cheeks.