Visit the kelpforest....

Payday tomorrow...I'm sure the bus driver will be happy; today and Friday I've had to pay my entire fare in nickels and dimes, and not even the option of driving, because the Kia has just about enough for John to pick up Gareth at summer school. $10 yesterday was enough to get 2 gallons and barely move the needle off E.

We have a trip planned in August to drive to Carlsbad Caverns and take a cave tour or two, and camp. We were going also visit the Grand Canyon, but with the price of gas that's out. We're planning on using our economic stimulus check for it, and John thinks even if gas gets up to $5.25, we can still afford it.

I am dubious. I am all for staying closer to home. Driving across the desert in August, with three kids who have never been on a long car trip before (two of whom seem to have problems sitting still for any length of time), does not sound like a wonderful time to me.

Well, we'll see. My family made cross country trips in the summer, without DVD player or AC even. We did have a camper and more room to spread out, though. And a couple of those trips were made when we kids were old enough to share in the driving.

I was kind of hoping to use part of our check to get a new camera, but I don't suppose there's going to be any extra for that...

DeviantArt paid account is expired again. Boo. I suppose I should just bite the bullet and pay a whole year at once. And now they have big damn ads right in the middle of your gallery -Gah!

Avalon is going to a Tai Kwon Do class with a friend from school this evening. We'll see if she likes it. We need to get her into something athletic - she's got more energy than the rest of us combined. I was trying to talk her into rock climbing because of this; she had been reluctant but has recently shown glimmers of interest. Honestly, she climbs as if she had a tail and thumbs on her feet.

And John and I went to watch the grunion last night. The run started shortly after we got there, and we kept waiting for it to get stronger but it never did. Probably a Walker Scale 2 at the most. A couple of the houses on the bluffs had flood lights on; they weren't really bright, but after my eyes adjusted I could see we were trailing shadows right down to the water and we may have been scaring them off just by ourselves as we walked up and down the beach. I like going to Crescent Bay, though. It's a nice small beach and it's easy to cover the whole thing several times during the course of the run. We didn't get back until 1:30, so I'm a bit wiped out at work today.