Weekend in Bonney Lake

January 13th

Ben and I decided to hang out with his mom and sister during our three day weekend.  We had planned on going to his friend Erin's house for a game night in Kent.  We thought it would make sense to stay in Bonney Lake and make the short drive to Kent.

I got home after work and started packing up our stuff for the weekend.  I asked him if he wanted to enjoy snow on one of those days.  He said sure and we packed up our sleds and our winter gear.  We decided to take Ben's car so we took out all the big stuff he had stored in there and put it in the house.  I started loading in our big bags, snow gear and the sleds.  I grabbed my computer bag, toiletry container and my coats and shoved them into the back of the car.  Ben added his bags.  We believed we were ready to go.

We left around 6 and got to the house around 7ish.  We brought our stuff in and set it downstairs.  Trish was making dinner.  She said she was trying a new recipe, chicken marsala.  It was tasty.  We had rice and salad with it.  We chatted about random things, gave Amy a hard time and listed to the strange things Brad had to say. 

We finished up dinner and ended up playing Ticket to Ride, a train game we received as a Christmas gift.  We've played it a few times already.  This time we weren't going to let Amy do what she wanted.  Halfway in we ate some ice cream Amy bought for us.  I had some Ritz chips and some pop.  The game lasts a while so we all didn't get to bed until about 2 after playing.  I was so tired I just wanted to go to bed but I had to brush my teeth and wash my face and such.  I hit the bed hard.

January 14th

The next morning I woke up around 9 and headed upstairs.  Trish was up making cinnamon rolls and I brought bacon to use up.  Ben came up shortly after.  We hung out most the day watching TV and spending time on our phones and laptops until the Seahawks and Falcons game came on. 

The game started out pretty well.  We scored first and we looked good on our opening drive.  Then all hell broke loose.  We had a really bad second quarter we could not recover from.  Two long kick returns were negated due to penalties that did not exist, which backed us up on our side of the field and one of our offensive linemen stepped on Wilson's foot tripping him into the end zone giving the Falcons a safety and the ball.  I was horrified!  That was the wheels fell off.  We could not recover.  We were missing too many of our starters due to season ending injuries.  It was heartbreaking but there was some good things to come out of the game as well.  It's going to be a long 7 months of no football but somehow we will manage.

During halftime Trish made us her famous nachos.  We inhaled them.

Since we didn't have anything else planned and we really didn't feel like doing anything so we sat on the couch some more and watched New England stomp on the Texans.  If it weren't for Derek Carr getting breaking his leg; the Raiders would be playing the Patriots instead.  We ate pizza for dinner and played dice and a few rounds of Rummy.  We went to bed really late again.

January 15th

We got up around 10ish and I got cleaned up.  After my shower I went upstairs and relaxed a bit.  I finally got Ben out of bed and we went upstairs to help his mom make food.  We ate French toast and some sausage.  It was delish.

We had to wait for Amy to get ready so we could go.  Her shower and putting on clothes took about an hour.  We just sat there and watched TV while waited for her.  We all piled into Trish's car and I called shotgun.  We stopped at Safeway to pick up some flowers for their grandmother's birthday.  Ben and I bought some more soap and shampoo for the downstairs bathroom.

On the way to Auburn, we went the back way through Lake Tapps, I asked if we could stop and get a geocache on the way to their house.  Trish said sure.  I scouted the area around her house and there was a small park we haven't hit up yet that had a geocache in it.  I was stoked!  We stopped for a few minutes to grab Park Play (GC6N9K6) and I let Ben find it.  We signed our names and took a group photo because they are fun a nd I like to take them.

We visited with his grandma and his uncle while the Green Bay and Dallas game played in the background.  We chatted about our jobs, what we've been doing and random things like that.  She told us how her birthday went and the flowers that she received.  We were there for almost two hours before we wanted to head home so we could eat some dinner.  I was hungry.  Along the way home, we heard how Green Bay made some insane plays to take Dallas out of the playoffs.  I was happy to hear that because I knew the Falcons would smash Green Bay next weekend.

We got home and Trish started in on making chili and corn bread.  Meanwhile we watched the Kansas City/Pittsburg game.  Kansas City got robbed.  No doubt about that.  We were disappointed in the teams that made it to the divisional championship round.  It was clear who was going to win those.  The Super Bowl was going to suck this year.

After dinner and cleaning up we played a game of Phase 10.  Halfway through Trish joined us.  We played that for about an hour or so.  We chilled on the couch for a while using the internet and listening to the TV background noise.  It was getting late so I got ready for bed and passed out.  I was so done.

Next Adventure:  Sledding at Crystal Mountain and Finding a Cache in Two Feet of Snow