Update

Ok, so I am not a very good blogger. I have taken a break from posting but lately I have been thinking that I need to get motivated to start again. I just got home from my family's crawfish party and Gregory Brown played(and was fabulous). I told him I'd send a link to the blog so that was the motivation I needed to get back online. So anyway here are some pics from the last couple of months. First my sister and I went to San Fransisco with her friends. They were going out for a dog show so we got to tag along and hang out in the city. We went shopping and sightseeing, ran across the golden gate bridge, rode the trolley, went to Sonoma valley for some wine tasings and of course checked out the waterfront. One of the coolest things was the sea lions. They were sooo cute and sooo loud. We had a fabulous time!

Here are the rest if the pics http://www.flickr.com/photos/gillikin/sets/72157605420485448/

Next Jason and I went to Summerland Key for my sister's birthday. They rented a house and we stayed for a week(I am doing a great job of attaching myself to other people's trips). We took our kayaks and they rented a boat for the week but the wind was blowing like crazy so we tried to kayak, tried to fish, tried to dive but were only mildly sucesful. But we had a good time. We went to Key West twice and spent a lot of time in the hot tub. http://www2.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=224146301/a=72173436_72173436/t_=72173436

For our first trip of 2008 we went to north Alabama and went camping/caving with Joey, Aimee and their friend James. We went to Fricks cave which is closed due to a population of grey bats but once a year they open it up and cavers come from all over to cave, cookout and fellowship. It was a sweet cave. First it was dry and we saw some pretty nice formations. We saw some bats and lots of guano. Then we got to the stream. This was our first wet cave and it was pretty intense. The water was sooo cold and you had to crawl on your belly through the stream and the roof was so low that you had to hold your head sideways to get through. It was crazy and I can't wait to do it again. We also hit Stephan's Gap. I reppelled with a rack for the first time(I miss my figure 8 but I guess I will get used to it). I wish we lived closer so we could go caving more:-(

On the next trip Jason went without me. He went to Texas to fight wildfire for three weeks and left me at home. I went kayaking three times with my friends, twice from 5 rivers and once on Hurricane Bayou. My friend Kristen found a cool little canal off Justin's Bay. I found one mention of it Brint's Blog but he didn't know what it was. My to do list for kayaking includes Little River from Co RD1 to Hwy 59, McVoy Lake, crcumnavigate Gravine, Lizzard Creek and I want to check out the platforms on the Bartram canoe trail. My other goal is to get a smaller kayak that I can load by myself so I can paddle even when Jason is busy and not have to rent one or take the whitewater kayak.

Ok so I know that those are some pretty broad highlights but I will try to do better in the future.