It's been awhile...lets catch up!

It's been awhile.  Quite a while.  I have lame excuses.  Many times I started to blog and then quit.  So...it's catch up time.  What has been happening since February.  Has it really been a month since I blogged!?!  Eek.

My apologies for a potentially long post....

Many adventures have been had in March.  A month that I thought would be burdened with loads of snow and no travel.  But, it turned into a month of loads of snow with lots of travel.  First - is anyone else as sick of the snow as I am?  Seriously!  And, per the weather forcast we are getting more tonight.  Such is life, but the city has no clue how to take care of the roads.  I wouldn't have as big of an issue with the snow - if the roads were maintained.

So onto the weekends of travel.  The end of February was a VERY important young lady's 13th Birthday.  I was lucky enough to head to York, PA to get to spend time with her and her siblings.  The trip was sadly cut short, due to.....weather.  BUT it was great.  I can't believe that my niece is 13 years old!  I can't believe I was only 20 when she was born!  We got to take her brothers out to lunch with us...with Ms. T picking the location.  Noodles and Company for that noodle lover!  All of those kids can down their noodles!

To continue the fun I went to Ohio for the following two weekends, but they were both cut short due to...you guessed it - WEATHER.

I was lucky enough to see a couple movies over this past month.  Typically I goto a movie every few months..  However, two great movies have premeired this month - Veronica Mars and Divergent.

My interest in Veronica Mars didn't peak until January 2014, when the TV series became available on Amazon Prime.  The movie answered many questions, but left some questions open for another movie.  Will their be an interest for another movie?  Probably not.  One of the greatest parts of the making of Veronica Mars - it was funded by the fans in a Kickstarter campaign.  How amazing is that?  Fans donated money to create this movie.

Divergent on the otherhand has been an interest of mine for MONTHS.  I listened to the trilogy via Audible. Many reviews of the movie I read say "The problem with Divergent is the 3rd book - Alligant."  I could not agree more.  The movie was great.  It didn't have the same hype as Hunger Games or the other books.  The gal who played "Tres" was too pretty for who I saw as Tres. BUT, she did a great job.  Four...was one mighty hot, sexy man.  But he was too old for Four.  The biggest frustration during the movie, however, was the two teenage girls that continuanlly whispered through the movie.  Doug, turned around and starred them down (they were also kicking his seat.)  It wasn't until I turned around and LOUDLY said "Please be quiet, you are ruining the movie for us and those around you."  When other folks around them said "Finally!  THANK YOU" they finally were quiet.  Folks - if you aren't going to a movie with your teenagers or children in general.  At least teach them common courtesy.  Talk when the movie is OVER or before it begins.  If you have the chance to read the Divergent books - READ THEM.  After you read them, then decide if you want to watch the movie :)

This past weekend the family (with the exception of my brother David) got to spend the weekend in Deep Creek Maryland.  What a great weekend!  We got to go Geocaching.  We didn't have the time to do ALOT of caches, but we looked.   Micah (my 5 yr old nephew) was SO excited to go on a treasure hunt.  The group of 11 of us dwindled down to 4 of us after our 2nd cache.  We found 1 cache , searched for 3 more, then found a 2nd one.  It was quite fun!  I look forward to doing it more!

 Our first find - off the sensory trail near the Discovery Center.  

Our second find - and the only ones that made it, near a Beaver Dam.  Sadly the cache was SOAKED, but it was still fun to find!