I'm missing EVERYTHING !!

So here I sit in California bored as a cork today and everyone and their brother is visiting up in Idaho. My schedule never coincides with anyones. I'm missing our neighbors who live in Iowa that came out for their vacation, my husbands daughter and her family's first visit and our other neighbors' wife who works like I do in California. Well, boo-hoo for me. Ok, I'm done whining.

Yesterday, I did happen to go to a huge birthday party for one of my Filipino co-workers, her daughter turned 18. Celebrating the 18th birthday is a big tradition for the Filipinos, like a quinceanera for the Spanish. They start with a prayer and good wishes, then a dance where the birthday girl is given a single rose by 18 males when it's their turn to dance with her and lastly 18 females light a candle and each give a short speech or wish for the birthday girl. There is food galore, pancet, a huge roasted whole pig, every kind of cooked rice, Filipino stews, fish, shrimp and cake...Yummy!

I took movie pictures at the party so now I just need to get it transfered to a CD, but I'm finding out that my computer does not have a fire wire port nor does my camera have an iLink cable. So I'm now going to pester everyone to find a computer with a firewire port and then I'll go buy the cable. I've just learned new questions to ask when purchasing a video cam...300 bucks later. OUCH!



Jewell Lake video

Oh, and almost forgot... we finally got a canoe up in Idaho!!! It looks just like the red one in my post "Can U Canoe". We paddled around Jewel Lake, it's so beautiful. I didn't catch one fish using a lure, I'm a bobber kind of fisher person but I did manage to hook myself. I had to use pliers to rip out the hook it was in so deep. God forbid I have to go to the hospital...I did a pretty good job of it but it hurt like hell about 20 minutes later!




Well, off to finally get dressed at 1pm.....hey, it's Sunday already.