Julie's Journal

Michael making Carne Asada for dinner

Our love shack

The hammocks

Just the stuff we brought along to survive

Our view

Our campground

Another view

Me trying to stay warm by the fire

Me bundled up

Disco inferno

Julie ninja

Napping in my hammock

The wind blew our love shack a couple feet from it’s original spot

Michael and I were watching Travel Channel Secrets on the Travel Channel the other night and we discovered the most beautiful place ever, Havasupai Reservation. We got all excited about going there, so we are starting to plan a week long trip in the Spring of 2006.

There are four ways to get to Havasu Falls and the campground where we will be staying. You can take a 30 minute helicopter ride including a gourmet picnic when you arrive. You can ride in on a horse that will take you about 3-5 hours. You can hike, but have horses carry your things at a 50 lb per person maximum. Or you can get there by the “Julie and Michael” method. A 3-6 hour hike with everything we would need for 4 days and 3 nights strapped onto our backs.

This will be my first ever backpacking trip, but I have quite a few months to get my body, mind, and heart in shape so I won�t be miserable the whole time hiking.

Michael has the majority of all the gear we will need, except I will have to get myself a backpack. I looked around on the REI web site and found this one I liked, but he said I need to buy my backpack last after I have all my gear. That way I get one that isn�t too small, or too large. Makes sense to me, but I still like that one. Hehehe.

He did buy me this yesterday while he was on his lunch break. I was admiring it a few weeks back and he remembered. It is so unbelievably soft, and most definitely the best ever jacket I have ever owned! If I haven�t said this before, (HA!) He�s the greatest!

Tonight he is hosting “Board Game Night” at our house with his friends, but first they are going to Sushi Mon for all-you-can-eat sushi. Luckily I found something on the menu that is COOKED so I will be joining them, at least for dinner. If they weren�t such geeks and played Monopoly or Trivial Pursuit I would have joined in on the board games. But they play games like Carcassonne – Hunters and Gatherers, DVONN, Octiles, and Puerto Rico. I will pass thankyouverymuch.

I have some work to do for “work” this weekend so I will take advantage of this alone time to get that done. That will certainly free up my work load next week.

I don’t know…this seems a little overboard to me.

I guess she hasn’t found the time to take out my post yet?

This was the thing that cracked me up the most…

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You entered: 1/3/1965

Your date of conception was on or about 12 April 1964.

You were born on a Sunday
under the astrological sign Capricorn.
Your Life path number is 7.

The Julian calendar date of your birth is 2438763.5.
The golden number for 1965 is 9.
The epact number for 1965 is 27.
The year 1965 was not a leap year.

As of 10/12/2005 5:43:19 PM CDT
You are 40 years old.
You are 489 months old.
You are 2,127 weeks old.
You are 14,892 days old.
You are 357,425 hours old.
You are 21,445,543 minutes old.
You are 1,286,732,599 seconds old.

There are 83 days till your next birthday
on which your cake will have 41 candles on it.

Those 41 candles produce 41 BTU’s,
or 10,332 calories of heat (that’s only 10.3320 food Calories!) .
You can boil 4.69 US ounces of water with that many candles.

In 1965 there were approximately 3.7 million births in the US.
In 1965 the US population was approximately 179,323,175 people, 50.6 persons per square mile.
In 1965 in the US there were approximately 1,800,000 marriages (9.3%) and 479,000 divorces (2.5%)
In 1965 in the US there were approximately 1,712,000 deaths (9.5 per 1000)

Your birthstone is Garnet
The Mystical properties of Garnet

Garnet is used as a power stone

Some lists consider these stones to be your birthstone. (Birthstone lists come from Jewelers, Tibet, Ayurvedic Indian medicine, and other sources)

Emerald, Rose Quartz

Your birth tree is

Fir Tree, the Mysterious

Extraordinary taste, dignity, cultivated airs, loves anything beautiful, moody, stubborn, tends to egoism but cares for those close to it,rather modest, very ambitious, talented, industrious uncontent lover, many friends, many foes, very reliable.

There are 74 days till Christmas 2005!

The moon’s phase on the day you were
born was new.

Skrinkle wanted to come into the room so bad, but she was afraid to come around the fan to get in.


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She doesn’t like the blow dryer either!

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