CAR CURSED!

Words don't do our situation with cars any justice! So to put it mildly, we are CAR CURSED!

We just got back from Idaho and from visiting Brandon's parents for the weekend, and the trip was really long in getting there. Allow me to explain.

We found out last Wednesday that we have to have the Neon's main computer replaced! Our ac on the Neon hadn't been working, and with this hotter than you know where temperatures it has been awful trying to drive anywhere! It turned out that while we thought it was the ac needing a charge, we went and got it charged and as soon as I drove it off the lot, for about 15 minutes all seemed well, but then it started blowing hot again! So I called and they said to bring it in again the next day and they did some further investigative work, and found out that is was the main computer's part that sends a charge to the ac in order to tell it to come on and stay cool, it wasn't working the way it should! So they said that it really needed to be replaced! ARGH!

So needless once again to say, we have not been happy about this! Oh well, it will all work out! Just gotta keep the faith!

This last weekend was fun! We went to Joseph, Oregon where we had lunch by the beautiful lake, and looked around the little street of shops. It was a really cute and serene place to visit! It was a little cooler there than it was in Cambridge where Brandon grew up in Idaho. We drove the 3 hours over the GORGEOUS mountains to get there, and then drove back later that day! It was in the wind and sunshine, but there was also lots of smoke from the fires in close proximity to where Brandon is from! We drove to a look-out of Hells Canyon where Brandon grew up water skiing on the Snake River, and there were two different fires that we could see huge clouds of smoke! It was so sad but cool to see those.

Monday we went to the lake in Hells Canyon, and water skied (sp?) and hung out in the sun. It was a nice day. Then Tuesday morning, we went to a lower dam in the canyon and picked lots and lots of wild blackberries! They were sooo good. But be careful, here's my warning from experience... don't eat a lot of them at once or you'll get sick! I ate and ate them off the bushes (all of us did really) and we all got sick! The only qualms I had about picking them were the HUGE and DISGUSTING spiders that made their home in the bushes and vines of blackberries! You could have peeled me off the side of the boat when I saw some of those spiders! The other not so fun part of picking berries is that they have thorns galore! Every time you went to pick a berry, you had a good chance of pricking your finger! YIKES! IT REALLY HURT! But all in all, we brought home more than enough berries that we froze to use in future jams and black berry cobbler recipes! (If any of you have a good recipe for either, just send me one!)

Well it seems like that is really all that is new with us, sorry to bore you with the details! But as always, take care everyone! I love you all!