Out with Hay

Heather and Hayden were at church waiting on Jacob to get back from camp.  When it took longer than expected Heather mentioned that they could have went to Taco Bell if she would have known it would take this long.  Well it sounded like a plan to me.  I told Hay to jump in the car and we would pick up Rachel and head to Taco Bell.  Didn't take much to convince him.  Turned into one of those fun summer afternoons with no agenda and time to do whatever struck our fancy.  First up...run for the border.

After lunch I determined that we needed to hunt down a few geocaches.  We started out with 2 strikes in Arbuckle Park.  The first one was inaccessible because they were setting up for the craft show.  Our 2nd strike came when I decided that bushwhacking and mucking through the mud were not a good choice.  That one would have to wait until later in the year when the poison ivy was gone and it was drier.

We found our success soon after.  Hayden found a geocache that I had missed on an earlier try.  We performed a little maintenance on this cache and moved on.

Next stop...Petsmart...just to look.  At least that was the request.  I spent the next 2 hours after this being harassed by Rachel for a parakeet.  Seems like she's been wanting a bird ever since our trip to Parrot Mountain on vacation.

Apparently all the geocaching and talk about pets makes a person hungry and crave ice cream.  Next stop...Wylie's.  It never disappoints.

I love a day with no schedule.

Bonus pic....got to watch J.J. at his swim meet the next day.  He lowered his personal best time in both the 100m backstroke and 100m freestyle.