NEVER JET HOT

I took the family up to Bellingham on Thursday, Frank wanted to see some comic/trading card shop up there, we ended up at this really neat Railroading Museum, with typical museum stuff, plus several model trains you can run, and a train operator computer simulation- Plus a geocache inside the museum! Kind of funky, some well detailed models, then some off the wall things, like Barney the Purple dinosaur tied to the track. And it's all right downtown! You wouldn't see that in Seattle. We ate at an old restaurant called the Horseshoe, I knew the food would be good when I saw the waitress had a huge tattoo. That's one of my rules of thumb for fine dining. We didn't get to go everywhere we wanted to, plan to return soon to see the Antique Radio Museum in the same area, the Science museum, and more. Bellingham has a sort of Bohemian feel to it, I know it's a college town but the downtown isn't full of starbucks and mcdonalds on every corner, I wonder if they set old ...

We were hiking up a gravel road to a geocache this morning, Frank saw a little dead field mouse and of course had to point it out to Daphne. She said "EEEEWWWWW! Aaaaaaw." Apparently her disgust is matched only by her compassion.

I have an old metal detector I got at a garage sale... I think it's the cheapest one Radio Shack sells, it is not particular at all about finding metal junk. I was using it on an old service station site my dad owns, it's mostly just woods now (A good place for a Geo-Cache!) - All we found was several oil-can lids, a bent spoon, and a quarter, which I had dropped in there on purpose to entertain my son. Hence a really crummy metal detector would be perfect for honing in on goecaches in metal boxes. I am thinking about putting a more compact telescoping pole on it, maybe even making a smaller control box for it (There's really not much to the guts of it) and adding it to the Geo-caching backpack I plan to make; with swag, extra pens, some plastic bags to fix wrecked caches, EXTRA GPS BATTERIES, a super-bright LED flashlight, what else? That's all I can think of, just woke up.