Moved To Tears?

My son and I are big fans of the ghost busters shows. You know, Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, etc.

We've watched Ghost Hunters since their early days, when they were operating their offices out of a little tiny trailer in their back yard. We like them because they seem to try to keep things scientific, and they are giving the impression that they're looking for evidence. Not ratings.

See how serious they are?
Ghost hunting is serious business.



Then there's a show we kind of discovered accidentally, probably during the Halloween season stuff that the Travel Channel does. But we found it so entertaining we couldn't stop watching!
The guys on Ghost Adventures are a crack up. "Dude!" "Bro!" "Sweet!"
And they put so much drama into what they're doing, it's just intoxicating. Shay likes it more than I do. He'll sit thru a whole show without fast-forwarding.



They don't seem to take things too seriously, and it makes the show pretty funny sometimes.

Do I care if either of these shows are faking it? No, not really. I just want to be entertained.

So then people started really making a big deal about the movie Paranormal Activity.
I didn't go to the movie, my schedule was pretty awful and I didn't take the time to go sit thru it. But then it came out on DVD.
And while I did laundry this morning, I watched it.

I have never had a movie scare me so bad. Really. At one point, I was sick to my stomach. Then there was a scene that scared me to tears. To tears!!!

I was still shaking, fifteen minutes after the movie had ended.

I know there are lots of people who call the movie "stupid," or whatever, but it scared the living daylights out of me.

Can I recommend it to anyone? No, not really. Not unless you like being disturbingly scared!!!

January Boating

We endured our obligatory 3 weeks of cold weather (55 degrees for a high temperature was NOT good!!!) and now we're back to the normal stuff. Boating weather. Biking weather. Picnic weather!
Steve's dad and his wife were in town, so we rounded up Stormy and Shay and we all took sandwiches out on the big boat.



There were several other boaters out there, but none in our favorite spot, Solitude Cove. We like to park and enjoy the.....solitude...



What a perfect day.

When the gulls found out that Shay had Doritos, they began their assault:



We went to Copper Canyon, which looks somewhat like Sodom and Gamorrah during the warmer summer months. During the winter it's a ghost town. Oh and speaking of ghosts....



We discovered a memorial set high up on some rocks in Copper Canyon. It's difficult to see it, it is a surf board with a white wooden cross.
Last summer a pro-surfer jumped from the rocks into the water and ended up drowning. Apparently some friends erected a memorial. It is on Indian owned land and will likely be removed in a short period of time.

We spent about three hours out on the water, just enough time to soak up some sun and explore some coves. That will likely be the last chance we have for that kind of fun for a little while, January and February are very busy months.