Stumpin

Shay and I went stumping on Halloween night. If you aren't familiar with the term, it was originated when politicians would get up on a tree stump so they could address a crowd of people.
I gave out McCain stickers, Shay walked with friends to get candy.
Don't we make a lovely family?

Best Laid Plans

For the American Cancer Society, we entered ourselves in the annual London Bridge Days Parade. Our city is celebrating the 30th year of incorporation, so this parade was expected to be extra-big.
We had the best plans. Since our theme for the fundraiser this year is a military theme (Battling Cancer) we ordered camouflage shirts so we'd all match. Then we arranged for a military truck (a HUGE one) to accompany us down the parade route. We wrangled about 25 walkers, had banners ready to go, had signs.
Then on the morning of the parade we realized that the t shirts still hadn't arrived. And the owner of the military truck called and said the brakes went out and he almost got in an accident.
NO shirts. NO truck. Just us, with our mis-matched outfits and a lot of disappointment. So we pulled it together and marched in the parade. I was handed a plastic megaphone (which only made me wish for the REAL megaphone I had at home) and I was asked to be a cheerleader. So I did. For a mile I screamed into this plastic cone, getting both our walkers to chant and the people on the curbs who watched us walk by. A friend snapped a photo of me:

Utah aaaahhhhh

I went to Utah for some training last week, and stood amazed at how beautiful it was. I'd never been there, so it was a real treat to see the red rocks for the first time. My camera is on its way to the Kodak people. Something has been wrong with it for a couple of weeks and finally I realized that smacking it on the table wasn't the right way to deal with it.
So here are a few of the pictures that did turn out of fabulous St. George Utah.




This is me on top of a mesa, where the old airport is. It's called the old airport because they just broke ground on a new airport nearby. Anyway, it is situated on top of a flat-topped mountain, and the view of the city down below is awesome.


On the way home, I drove on the highway through the "Virgin River Gorge" which is much more breathtaking in person than it is on a little camera. It's like driving thru a mountain.


What a wonderful place to visit. Very clean town, with seemingly low crime. (the headline after I arrived in town was; Obama Signs Vandalized" That's not a crime...)

I didn't see graffiti once. The population is somewhere around 75,000. That's about 25,000 more than what we have here in Havasu. They have Mormon churches in every neighborhood, which I assume accounts for how nicely the town is kept up. Strict parenting probably doesn't yield a whole lot of hooligans....