Busy, Busy Weekend

It was a very busy weekend! We made a very fast trip to Sandpoint to the Arts & Crafts Festival, where my parents had a booth with their artwork (http://www.woodnwings.com/.) Unfortunately, we got up to Sandpoint too late to go to the Celebrate Life walk, but we were sure thinking of Jenny as we came into town. We did get to see a lot of familiar faces and visit with many friends that we haven't seen for some time, while at the beach. The main reason for the trip was to meet our nephew Nile down at the festivities. He is up to visit for a couple days so wanted to make sure we got to see him. After getting quite warm at the beach, we played in the water some. The nieces had a blast. Obviously, it wore everyone out! They were all asleep, but Lizzie woke up just before I snapped the picture.



We decided to go for a quick drive out to Twin Lakes as the sun was setting. This old farm place is so cool, and it would be a neat place to live. It seems like such a serene setting.

Sunday brought more additions to the front yard. The paver patio is finished out front, and now needs to be finished in the back. It looks really nice.

After working all day on the patio, we decided to take a drive to get a new geocache at Cougar Bay. We took the scenic way around and then took a side road off that, and saw some beautiful areas. This is an old farm place that is still standing.

Further down the road, we came across this tree that was filled with tiny conks. I have never seen anything like it. From top to bottom, and all around, there were baby conks covering the tree.

A bit further down the road, we spotted three deer in the field and sat and watched them for awhile.

We finally arrived at our destination. We were the only ones at the preserve, so we enjoyed the views, while searching for some cache.

Our dog loves to go with, so was happy to help us try to locate the sneaky cache. As usual, she just enjoys going along for the ride, but this time she was able to get out and lay in six foot tall grass, and cool off, while we searched the area for the geocache.

We decided to do one more multi-cache in Coeur d'Alene before we headed home. It was a fun one and took us around to different building art around town. We ended up at an area we didn't know existed, which is what we love about caching. Tomorrow is our one year anniversary of being addicted to the game/adventure of geocaching, so we are trying to figure out a place to hide a good cache tomorrow to mark our 'anniversary.'

Right now, I'm going to head outside to see if I can find those meteor showers they keep talking about that are supposed to be neat to watch the next couple nights. Hope to get a good show, although they are supposed to be best around 3 am, but I hope to be sound asleep by that time!