Saturday

We had an absolutely wonderful time snowshoeing on Saturday! The weather was perfect if not too warm, and sunny, boy was it sunny, unusual for this time of year to be warm and sunny here but I'm sure glad it was.

We have nothing else planned other then work and relaxing for the next week, oh. and maybe some housecleaning since it's supposed to be back to rain and cool. I told DH that it's time to go thru our clothing and toss the I can't wear that.. I don't like that.. And that is waaaaaayyy to small to wear that items... We'll see if he is ready to comply.

~Wild Irish Wanderer

Snowshoeing

Today Dh and I are off to snowshoe, It's supposed to be a beautiful clear and cold day. I'm looking forward to taking a few pictures of our trip.

Nothing else planned for this weekend other than cleaning the house tomorrow and work on Monday so enjoy!!

~Wild Irish Wanderer

Tread Climber

My Tread Climber is all put together and I have started using it. I'm looking forward to getting my walk on and losing some weight in the process! My goal is 10 lbs by June 1st, let's see if I can get that done...

~Wild Irish Wanderer

Beatiful Weather

The weather has been cold and clear for the most part here, and boy am I itching to go out and hike or snowshoe and it looks like this weekend will be a winner to do just that. We have plans to go snowshoeing this Saturday and all I have to do it hope the weather holds up.

If not I guess we go another day since we can go during the weekdays right now as we have DS-O staying with us for a month. I bought a new small compact camera just for hiking and snowshoeing and believe me I can't wait to use it.

I'm feeling under the weather a bit though and hope I'm not getting that stomach virus that is going around to everyone at work since that will make my snowshoe trip a no-go.

~Wild Irish Wanderer

United

Well United still hasn't sent us an email regarding our MAJOR issues we had i.e. They canceled our return flight home for some reason! And I had to miss a day of Overtime work because they couldn't get us booked on our regular return flight, it had to be a day later. So if they don't respond by Monday or Thursday of next week I'm taking my complaints to a higher source..

The weather is supposed to be my favorite!! Cold and Clear for the next week I sure hope it stays that way I love, love, love to hike in cold, clear weather and I'd love to go to Mirror Lake or Lena Lake but alas I have no time off until next weekend, and I don't mean tomorrow :-)

I am thinking of signing up for a snowshoeing class at REI and I'm not sure DH would go with me so I guess I'd have to do it alone but I'm really wanting to learn to snowshoe.

Our Bow flex Tread climber has not arrived but we did get the mat that goes with it, I sure hope they send us an email saying when it will be shipped since it's the only way we ever know if DH should stay up and wait for stuff.

2013 is looking to be a great year!!!

~Wild Irish Wanderer

Alaska Sorta Came Through

Well Alaska Airlines sorta came through for us. We each got $100 dollar vouchers for our issues we had on our flight to Texas. Too bad it was partly their fault our flight back got cancelled. Now United better come through I'm very upset our flight was cancelled and that I had to miss an entire day of work, which I sure hope they plan on re-reimbursing since god knows I didn't cancel our flight and neither did Expedia since they still had listed as on our flight home.

Things have gone back to normal here, I did work an overtime shift that will give us extra money, which DH wants to use for my birthday coming up. I'd rather save some and go our to Red Lobster with some for my birthday dinner.

I have put money into savings for our summer trip, we have no idea what we will do besides work on our fencing in our yard but I'd like to take a few couple of day trips somewhere and DH does want to go to Three Bears Lodge for a couple of days.

On the spending note.... We bought a Bow flex Tread climber and I couldn't be more excited! It will be here in a week or so and although we have to put it together which DH assures me he can do even if he has to call them to help him. I'm excited to get back into running again inside where it's warm and dry..

We have no travel plans at this point for a month or so because as usual our weather is awful this time of the year.. Rain..Snow..Sun..Rain..Wind. But if we do get a weekend off together and the sun is out I want to hike Mirror Lake as soon as possible..

~Wild Irish Wanderer

Home (Long)

Home but not without a lot of drama!!

We got to the airport 2 hours early and waited, then 10 minutes before boarding time of there is a delay, maintenance needs to work on something. Then an hour later, we have to fly another part from another city it will be another hour. Then 30 minutes later, oh no we will just rebook you all. So we waiting in line to get re booked and with 3 people it's not as easy to rebook especially when one of them is a child. Soooo

4 hours later we get on an airplane and finally get to where we were headed.

Then we had a great time for 3 days, then the rest of the family showed up and while it was great to see them, every person was extremely sick and coughing even the baby, who of course was up all hours of the day and night. They then proceeded to make everyone in my family sick but me and DS.

So now we can't do anything we had planned since DH was sick as a dog and couldn't breathe and couldn't sleep, and personally he just needed to rest because I didn't want him sick for the return flight.

DS basically spent the vacation on the Xbox, I spent it reading books and shopping for getaway time.

Oh yea, the return trip. Sooo

We get to the airport and oh guess what they don't have our reservation. I said you should I have confirmation number right here, so I pulled out my Ipad, pulled up Expedia and showed him.. Seems when they re booked our flight down here they just decided to CANCEL the rest of the bookings, so no plane ride home. We patiently waited while the wonderful man tried to find us a flight, again no small feat with 3 people one of which is a child. So finally he finds us a flight the next day, BUT not getting into our area until 1 am and then we have a 2 hour drive home, oh did I mention I had to work that day at 6 am, well that wasn't going to happen so I had to call in since we were stuck.

I will be sending our airline a nice email telling them they will be reimbursing me either ALL the money I paid for our flights or for my day of lost wages which by the way is More then the cost of the flight since it happened to be a holiday and I get paid time and a half.

I'm so ready for a vacation from my vacation from hell......

~Wild Irish Wanderer