but once it was time to go, i was tired and hot, and didn't know how kevin would handle watching our 3 month old nephew for a few hours by himself...
friday night i headed down to somerville, ma (right outside boston) with my sister and our friend kim. our close family friend, chris, is in this really great band, bronze radio return, they are from hartford, ct and don't make it up to maine very often, so we took the opportunity to go see them! half way down my mom called, she, chris's mom and another teacher had been at a conference about 40 minutes away from the venue and said, why not go?? we met up with them at the venue, johnny d's. had dinner then danced (and drank) the night away! after dancing all night and then driving home i pulled in around 4:15am, only to wake up about 3 1/2 hours later to get ready to drive up to farmington to pick up veronica.
wasn't feeling too bad on the ride up. we went to breakfast at the homestead -- yum! then it was time to head back to my house. but only for long enough so that veronica can throw in a load of laundry. as a recent (okay maybe not so recent) college graduate, i understand what a pain in the ass it is to do laundry at school! after the load was in and running we headed out to the lewiston athletic park for batting practice for my softball team. it was probably around 80º–82º out, and with the lack of sleep & surplus of beer the night before i was moving kinda slow!
after batting practice is when we were supposed to go geocaching, had planned on going to bear mountain in north turner where there was a series of 12 caches. but with the heat and lack of sleep we decided to stay inside where it was cool. kevin's sister, sonia, had brought the baby, liam, over for us to watch for a few hours anyway, so that kept us busy and it allowed veronica to finish up her laundry.
i hope to check out bear mountain sometime soon, maybe this afternoon if it's not too hot again—although i doubt it, yesterday was 18º cooler than it was on saturday—you never know what you're going to get for weather in maine in the fall!
looks like where we had batting practice there were two geocaches, GC1BGZY and GC250MV. should have looked before we went, it would have still introduced veronica to geoacahing and would have given her something to do while she waited for practice to be over...
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