I’m sitting right now on my outdoor furnitire – the wonderful patio furniture we had shipped from Texas [since everything here was either too cheap or too expensive]. Laura and I [mostly Laura] have just finished up the yard work for the week – cleaning, pruning, cutting, mowing, etc. It all looks so nice now.

I have just finished booking our travel to Spokane and arranging our rooms for the week and weekend we will be there. The company pays for the weekdays, of course, while I get to pay for the cabin in the woods over the weekend.

I’m getting pretty excited about it, actually. It’s been a while since Laura and I just went out to the wilderness. It’s been since we had Thanksgiving at my sister’s in Wyoming since we’ve taken a few days to ourselves and nature like that.

Looks like instead of going to sunny Florida for my training class, I’ll be headed to Spokane, Washington in a couple of weeks. Laura will be coming with me, of course.

Spokane itself is not very exciting, but its location is. Just a couple of hours away is Glacier National Park and the area is surrounded by national forests and mountains. We will be skipping out over the weekend to find a small cabin in the mountains. We will definitely be bringing cameras for this event.

Arranging flights for this was difficult, but it looks like we will be flying Northwest [a Continental partner] and actually be getting seats together. Gotta love those Membership Rewards.