Lost Cookoo Wyvern

Here's a picture from two weeks ago. I had a fun day of letterboxing with my three sisters...Lost Girl, Cocoa Cookoo, and Wyvern. We went on a morning trip to find some of Wyvern's boxes. We travelled south into the Adirondacks along the Raquette River. We visited lots a great spots at Rainbow Falls, Haystack Rock, the rebuilt "S" curve, and we even planted one of my new boxes. It was the first time I got to letterbox with all three, and can't wait to get back up to the NoCo and do some more. Thanks for the fun 3 Sisters!

Scum and villainy

Sunday we went to the Sterling Renaissance Festival. What a great time! It was Pirates weekend, so Laura and I dressed the part..well sort of. Laura wore her pirate flags t-shirt, and I wore a pirate t-shirt and my new kilt that Elayne made for me! There were a lot of folks dressed up, and some really elaborately. It was great people watching. I really enjoyed looking at all the merchants, and listening to the music. The joust was exciting, and the dunk show was funny. Taming of the Shrew was putting me to sleep, but it was the end of the day. My favorite part was getting sucked into the performance at the Pirate Sing-a-long and almost getting into a fight with the snivelly english dude. It was all in good fun! Of course what made it really fun was having Marylee and Angela there to share this time with. And, since it had been ten years since I had been there, a lot had changed. Laura and I were celebrating our 10th summer of "going out". Oh, we also got a letterbox there, I think we really made Angelina's day, the woman we had to ask for the box from. Can't wait to go back next year!

The Wrath of John

So last night was cheesy fun. The Dryden theatre shows old movies. This month, each Thursday night they are showing one of the Star Trek movies, preceded by an original Star Trek episode. So last night it was "The Space Seed" followed by "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan". Now, I have probably seen Wrath of Khan like a hundred times. We pretty much wore out a VHS tape of it. I probably know every line of dialog (nerd alert). Seeing it on the big scene was fun though. I hadn't seen Space Seed a hundred times, and it was really a treat to see it in this way. The best part was the overacting by Khan, and how he quickly converts the lady McGivers to his side. And of course the stunt doubles in the fight scenes are just too much...never did they think that we might some day be watching this on a 20 foot screen! Hellooooo, that doesn't even look remotely like Kirk! Too funny. I was waiting for a lot of audience participation in the movie, aka Rocky Horror Picture Show. People shouting out lines or the like. Nope, everyone was pretty quiet, but the laughter at the absurd parts reminded everyone how melodramatic it all is. Most of the audience was middle-aged balding males (oh, come on, they would say the same about me!), but I was surprised that there were several kids. The one in front of me had a phaser he made out of legos (must be dad wouldn't let him play with his real one he probably has in a collection under glass). Some other kids down the aisle I could hear saying to Dad that they were scared when the landing party goes into the abandoned space station. Never realized that there were SCARY parts in that movie! But the biggest laugh (and some applause) of course came when Kirk shouts out his famous "Khaaaaaaaaan". Anyway, it was all good fun, and reminded me when I was 8 and couldn't get enough of this movie. Next week is The Search for Spock, preceded by Amok Time. As the announcer said before the movie, "We see Spock go through puberty way too many times."