Thursday, September 24, 2009

I wish that I was "Jessie's Girl"!!

Well, this is my quarterly post.  I guess we haven't done too many things lately that have gotten me to update my blog.  But, there are a couple of things I decided were "blog worthy".

Most recently (last Friday), I went to Wendover with my friends, Annette, Janet, and Michelle (Annette's sister).  I had never been to Wendover before, so when Annette suggested it, it sounded like fun.  The event that actually got us to drive 2 hours on a Friday night to kind of the middle of nowhere was the Rick Springfield concert.  Those of you closer to my age will remember Rick Springfield as the singer from the 1980's whose most famous song is "Jessie's Girl" - he also played Dr. Noah Drake on General Hospital (I don't watch General Hospital, but I hear he is back on occasionally).  I wasn't a huge Rick Springfield fan, but he wasn't too bad to look at and who doesn't love "Jessie's Girl"?  We weren't sure what to expect since after a quick Wikipedia update on Rick Springfield we found out he had just turned 60.  We were pleasantly surprised to see that Rick still actually looks pretty darn good and still sings and plays the guitar like a young guy.  All in all, it was a lot of fun (although the buffet at the Peppermill hotel wasn't the greatest food I have ever eaten), and I would be game to go to Wendover again.  I should just mention that Janet is not really old enough to remember Rick Springfield too much (too bad for her that she has old friends), but Janet's older sister is the same age as me and Annette and so she remembered her older sister listening to good old Rick.









Annette, Michelle, me, and Janet

The other thing I thought I better at least mention on my blog was our cruise to Alaska.  It was a BLAST!  We went with Dru's whole family, and it was one of the best vacations we have ever had.  I can hardly wait to go on another cruise again!  I was not sure how much fun Alaska would really be and I wasn't thrilled about packing my winter coat for an August vacation, but I would go to Alaska again in a heartbeat!  The scenery was beautiful - we saw whales, porpoises, salmon, and bald eagles, and while the weather was cool, the only day it was freezing cold was the day we sailed around the Hubbard glacier (see the picture below).  Even though it was about 30 degrees, we stayed on the deck of the ship for about 2 hours looking at the glacier - it was amazing.  If you want to see more pictures of our trip Bryn posted a whole bunch on her blog.  (The word "blog" is a link to Bryn's blog, but with my current settings you can't tell it is a link - or you can click on the link to her blog on the left side of my blog.)




Hubbard Glacier in the background.  We got a lot closer to it than this picture - it was very cool (no pun intended).