07-07-07

7/7/7

seven-seven seven...

No matter how you write it... It's cool!

Check out The New 7 wonders of the world... announced today!
Pretty amazing! I haven't been to any of them (gasp!)...
I guess I better get to work so that I can die saying I have seen the 7 wonders of the world!!

Here are the winners:
Petra, Jordan
The Taj Mahal, India
Chichén Itzá, Mexico
Christ Redeemer, Brazil
The Great Wall, China
Machu Picchu, Peru
The Roman Colloseum, Italy

The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
- Paula Poundstone

1. These Are Days - 10,000 Maniacs
2. I Don't Wanna Die Anymore - New Radicals
3. Don't Know Why - Norah Jones
4. Idiot Boyfriend - Jimmy Fallon
5. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
6. Wild Bill Jones - Alison Krauss & Union Station
7. Car Wash - Rose Royce
8. Elizabeth, You Were Born To Play That Part - Ryan Adams
9. Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
10. Home - Michael Buble

Bonus: Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

This is the 2nd portion of our town parade. The first half is just floats and lots of candy tossing. The 2nd half is water. water. water.
The fire trucks come first, spraying everyone with their hoses and the spectators retaliate with their water guns and buckets of water. It is just one gigantic town water fight. No one is safe, no place is safe. If you don't want to get wet, then you must leave the parade route during the "intermission". It is a complete blast!!!



This little girl, we have no idea who she is... she came up to us, and started chasing us and spraying us with her water gun. I bent down to pack up my stuff, and she stood behind me spraying me with her water gun. I kept telling her I was done, and she kept spraying me with her gun, giggling. Little stinker!



This orange truck had some sort of thing that would spray water from the sides of it about 50 feet... it was incredible. The guy on the top had a super-dooper power hose... he was drenching everyone, and so one whole side of the street teamed up to get him, and when they couldn't, they started spraying the girl in the drivers seat through her open window. Ha ha!



Can you believe the size of those water tanks? You can barely see it, but the kid standing in front of the tanks has his hands out as if to say "bring it on, I've got more water than you!!"


This truck sprayed water from the front... it was hysterical watching everyone scatter when the truck revved its engine and started spraying all the spectators!



This would be Thing 3 crying because she got all wet! She was fine watching and participating to a point... just don't get HER wet. Jefe had to take her home, she was so upset! Silly girl. That's what a water fight is... everyone getting wet!



WOW! Captain Jack AND Spiderman are in on the water fight... Sheesh! We do have an awesome parade!



Thing 2 found someones unused water pistol and put it to good use! He just took it and started spraying everyone... including Jefe. Thing 1 totally disappeared for a while... some of her friends were in the parade, and were chasing her trying to spray her... they won.



This is pre-water fight. Thing 1 with some of her cousins waiting for the parade to begin! It was soo HOT... yuck.
Do you think we should've gotten the clue that we were going to get soaked sitting next to "Z Wet Zone?" LOL!

Thing 2 told me that my hat made me look like a dork. So I then put on my cute/ugly hat and said, "OK. How about this one?" He took one look at it and said... "Umm. I think the big one is better."
I like my hat!
Besides, ima1ocow is just too cute in her new hair cut! I am thinking I just might get mine cut like that!


So. That was our 4th of July celebration. Our town parade is quite the deal... I keep threatening to send it in to Family Fun magazines contest "funnest towns in America". I mean how fun is THAT? A town water fight?? Pretty dang fun!
We ate yummy ribs at Grandmas house and watched the fireworks, while Thing 3 gave us a dancing show to music that only she could hear... Well. Actually, there was music being played that the fireworks were synchronized to... it was just really faint. Either that, or I am really deaf. Which is possible!
What did you do for the 4th? Anything fun?

This is us riding the Alpine slide. We rode 2 different ones, but this one is our favorite!!







This lodge was amazing! It is at the very top of the mountain, and there was a couple getting married there! It was awesome! It takes about 15 minutes to ride the tram to the top of the mountain... that's how high it is! Jefe and I want to go back and have brunch there... maybe for the anniversary!
Down there in the distance is Pineview reservoir. Its one of my favorite places! Love to go boating there... and then being in the mountains... what more could you ask for??


This is the Olympic ski jump arena. These athletes practice even in the dog days of summer... they jump into a pool! It was one of the highlights of Thing 3's trip. For the life of me I could not convince her to come with us to do anything else! She would sit and watch and cheer, and then ask "Mama when is it my turn!" Uhh. You are a dare devil that's for sure!! We did find a resort that does ski/snow board lessons for kids her age, so you know what we will be spending our Saturdays doing starting this winter!!




This owl played Pig wig in the Harry Potter movies! The kids thought that was amazing! They met a real live movie star!! lol! I could've gotten their photos with the owl, and them holding it, but they wanted $10 bucks a photo. As if!





I love the mountains. Really I do. Jefe has become a mountain lover too. I will not be so arrogant as to say that it was my doing... (your welcome Jefe!) But, he has become a mountain lover too. We both love to hike and I think if we could figure out a way to live in the mountains and still maintain contact with our jobs, it would be done in a heartbeat! When we first moved here, we spent a lot of time hiking and hanging out in the mountains. Last summer was the summer of the broken leg... so we did not go in the mountains at all. How could we when Thing 2 would be left at home all alone??
We spent the weekend in the mountains. We hit a large majority of the ski resorts and checked them out and did quite a bit of hiking! It was a blast!

"When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Yahoo! We're rich! But it turned out to be something different."
- Jack Handy
Here's my Random 10 Friday... Wanna play?

1. Walk Forever By My Side (Acoustic) - The Alarm
2. Firefly - Tony Bennett
3. Lips Of An Angel - Hinder
4. Loser - Beck
5. Watershed - Indigo Girls
6. With Or Without You - U2
7. You Will Be My Ain True Love - Alison Krauss (featuring Sting)
8. Somebody Told Me3 - The Killers
9. Cecilia - Simon & Garfunkel
10. I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You - Tom Waits

Bonus: Thank U - Alanis Morisette

This is what I followed home today on the interstate... nice eh?!