Happy New Year!

We want to wish all our friends and family a very happy new year. We are blessed with good health, lots of friends, and a great family and look forward to a good year.

We don't bother too much with New Year's resolutions because we would probably break them anyway. So any bad habits we manage to break will just be a bonus!

We are having great weather and rang in the New Year with a long quad ride. We had constant sunshine, 68 degree temps, and blue blue skies. What more could we ask! We decided to try to find a geocache that was hidden at the top of a mountain. The name of the cache was Pyramid Point and had a difficulty rating of 4 out of 5 and the terrain was rated 4 out 5 but it should have been a 10!! The find involved a ride, preferably a high clearance vehicle, and a hike. A very strenous hike to say the least but we were determined to get to the top of this mountain. Well....... we didn't make it. Terry almost made it but decided it wasn't worth a broken leg-or neck! The cache was actually hidden in 2004 so I am sure the trail had changed considerably. So, bad as we hated to we had to admit defeat. Bummer. But we got to places on that ride that we hadn't seen before and had a fun day. We got home in time to sit out and enjoy the sunset.

Quartzsite is finally getting busier. We went down town today and noticed that the number of vendors had increased a bunch. Probably doubled. And the number of shoppers and visitors increased as well. I am glad of that for the businesses. My beautician told me today that her business was 1/2 of what it was the previous 2 years. That has to hurt.

Tomorrow is the Hi Jolly parade so I will blog on that tomorrow.... or soon anyway.