15 years! (Day 340)

(this post was started on day 340, but somehow not posted until now)

I was a little worried about #79 (celebrate our 15th anniversary in a unique way). 15 years is a long time and I really wanted for our weekend to be special.

I am responsible for planning the odd years and I decided that I wanted to go someplace new so I found a cute Bed & Breakfast in Leavenworth and made reservations (Cottonwood Shores B&B) I was so excited that they had availability and was really looking forward to our weekend away.

Here is where the story goes wonky. I received a phone a few days before we were going to leave, from the owner Pat, who informed me that they would not like for us to come and stay with them. I was perplexed and asked why. She had looked me up on Peoplefinder.com and was "concerned" that I had lived in so many different locations and told me that I had aliases (which was news to me). I was in total shock!

I went home and looked on Peoplefinder and found several listings for a Patricia which is not and has never been my name.

I was pretty emotional, but I called Pat (who IS actually a Patricia) back. I was trying to choke back tears as I explained to her that her source was not valid and that I was not the person that she thought I was. It didn't change her mind and I was forced to find another B&B.

What blows my mind about the entire situation is, that Pat was really nice through the entire ordeal and I really want to give them a good review but I can't.

We ended up staying at an interesting B&B. The owner Verne was I believe he said 84 years old. Verne's wife was away visiting there son in Florida, so Verne was left on his own to tend to the guests. He was very sweet and had some amazing stories that somehow all ended up with someone being dead. I guess when I have lived that long most of my stories may end that way too.

We arrived in around 10pm on the first night and after putting our bags in our room (which was sweet and very clean), we joined Verne and the other couple who was staying there in the living room. It was a large room that had last been redecorated in the 1950's. The walls had the most interesting wallpaper on them, I think the part that was so interesting was that the paper went up the wall, covered the extremely high vaulted ceiling and then came right down the other side. It was truly... interesting.

We said our good nights and retreated to our room. Brent opened the door for me and as I turned to close the door my dear sweet husband said "Tricia, take your pants off". Well as you can imagine I was expecting something a little bit more romantic. Here is how the rest of the conversation went like this;

Me: "I know we are celebrating our anniversary honey and you are excited but do you think ...." Brent: "TAKE your pants off NOW Tricia!"

Me: "Brent I was hoping to..."

Brent: "Tricia, listen to me, if you don't take your pants off right now we.. NO NO NO DON'T SIT ON THE BED"

Well now I was intrigued at this point (and a little frightened) so I obeyed my hubby and removed my pants. He then proceeded to show me that the back of my pants were completely covered in fur. When I say covered I mean covered! There was so much golden fur that you could barely see my black pants through the fur.

At this point I am stating to panic and tear up. What in the world I had gotten us into. Brent was able to defuse the situation as only he could and within minutes we were laughing so hard that we were both crying.

The next day I found out that the chair that I had been sitting on the night before just happened to be the cats favorite spot. I decided not to sit there for the rest of our stay.

We puttered around the town the following day and just enjoyed the ambiance of this amazing German inspired town. The following day I planned a white water river rafting trip for us. It was SO much fun! Neither Brent or I had been white water rafting since we had gone 20+ years ago with our church youth group. We thoroughly loved Leavenworth and will be visiting it again soon.

1/3 of the way done. (Day 332)

Well not quite... I am one day shy of being a third of the way done. I have completed 27 of my 101 items completed and I have started on 26 others.

Not bad, considering I was hesitant to do a "101 in 1001 day" challenge in the first place. Here is an update on a few items that I have completed or are in the process of working on.

I bought a Groupon today for a knitting 101 class. Woo Hoo! I may actually get #50 marked off my list (Learn how to knit).

This last weekend was spent completing the second half of #57 (decrease clutter by having 2 yard sales), I had one of the two sales last summer. I was motivated to help a friend who is moving sell some of her things which in turn helped me!

I am pretty sure that I will not be completing all of the reading goals that I have listed. I use to love reading, but lately it seems that the only time I have to read is when I am beat tired, which for this dyslexic girl, is the worst time to try and read.

I figured I have to at least try and start some of this reading so the last week Micah and I have been reading "Bridge to Terabithia" I read it for the first time in 4th grade and since Micah is now in 4th I figured it was time for me to share it with him. I am happy that he is enjoying it as much as I did. We have had some great conversations about what we think Terabithia looked like or what it would look like if we could build a land of our own.

Last week was Mother's Day, so I decided it was time to knock #84 off my list (take my mom out for pedi's). It was a fun present for both of us and we really enjoyed the special treatment.

I am meeting with a group of ladies for a class that is given by a personal trainer. Because the class is so small (there were 4 of us in the last class) and personal I am counting it towards #17. It was fun and I am looking forward to our next class on Wednesday.

Speaking of Wednesday, it just so happens that Wednesday is my 15th anniversary. I am trying to plan a fun get-away but I can't blog too much about it yet. I promise to update you with all of the details (ok, maybe not ALL of them) when we return.