Updates!!!!

I am so sorry that I haven't updated anyone in awhile, but things have been hectic to say the least.  First off, we have moved from beautiful sun shiny Hawaii to Virginia.  We flew to LA and then drove across the country over 3,000 miles to get here.  We took about 9 days to make the trip, stopped at some really awesome places along the way, and even got to see a few friends here and there.

Touristy wise, I think Travis favorite stop was the Coors Brewing Company.  It was FREE, always a plus in our book, and then to top that all off, they gave you FREE BEER at the end.  That to Travis was priceless.  LOL!  Coors is his favorite beer, and to see how it was made tugged at his heart strings to say the least.  Then at the end, when they gave him 3 free tickets for any 3 beers of his choice, he was speechless.  Then the love in his eyes glistened at me when I gave him my free 3 tickets too.  (I have never liked beer!!!)  After all those years of saying I should just have a beer with him, he finally realized that there was an advantage to having a wife who didn't like beer.  LOL!

Travis was also mesmerized by the gift shop at the brewery.  He bought himself a double set (8 I think) of Coors glasses.  If the beer is cold in the glass, the Rockies are blue (just like the bottle).  Needless to say, to a good ole WV boy, that was amazing and a must have. 

My touristy highlight was going to the Wizard of Oz museum.  It is a little hole in the wall kind of place, but I thought it was really cool.  I have always loved the Wizard of Oz, and this place had every form of memorabilia possible.  I honestly didn't realize that the Wizard of Oz was actually a series of books written over several decades by 3 different authors.  They were small stories, and the movie came from the 3rd book, I think.  I could be wrong.  Wouldn't be the first time in my life, but we are keeping that a secret from my husband. 

There was something that happened at the museum that was really funny.  This museum literally had all memorabilia associated with the Wizard of Oz, including spin offs and spoofs made from the film.  Posters, dolls, etc..were everywhere.  As we turned the corner into Emerald City, I saw a poster for a "Naughty" version of the Wizard of Oz.  Pasties were placed in the right spots, and things were covered, but the Mommy in me came out like a lion.  LOL!.  In my younger days, I would have thought the poster was funny, but now in my Mommy days, I spun Connor in a different direction and expressed my outrage as to why a family place would display such horrible things.  Travis of course just laughed at me, which of course infuriated me even more, until I realized that I had jumped on a soap box that no one listening to or even cared to hear about.  Connor, was looking at the Flying Monkeys and didn't even see the poster.  Oh well. 

The gift shop there was really nice too, and I was able to buy some scrapbook paper in a Wizard of Oz theme and a wooden sign that hangs on the wall with witch shoes on it saying, "If the shoe fits, where it."  I have it hanging in my home office now.  I like to refer to it at times when I feel a little "witchy."

I am still sorting through the hundreds of pictures that I took and the scrapbook ideas are constantly popping into my head.  Stay tuned for more updates.....