Hearing of your relaxation makes me impatient and anxious for my own vacation.
I have'nt had any time off since last August! I need to get out on the road, and to Hell with the price of gas!
Funny! I live much, much further south than you, in what you would think would be possible territory for scorpions, but I don't think I've ever seen one. Wait....yes I have. One. Just one. A long, long time ago. And it was one, which was brought in by another student in a jar. So it may have not even been local in the first place.
Sorry your friend's car was stolen....people suck!
Camping is fun. I want to expiriment with a cookbook jon got a while ago, you dehydrate crazy things to re-hydrate when you are camping. They are kind of scary recipes so I want to try them at home first.