After a lengthy lull in blog-worthy events we suddenly had a most blog-worthy weekend.

Friday night our house was taken over by approximately 15 teenage girls. They came over for a girl's camp practice (I guess). It took me all of 1.7 seconds to determine that I would not be spending the night at my house. I contacted Mike and we headed out on a geocaching adventure.

We decided to do the Mustang Ridge cache just as the sun was going down.

There was still quite a bit of daylight when we started, but by the time we reached the cache it was gone. We hiked back down the hill in the dark and Mike sustained a puncture wound to his leg on the way. While the sight of Mike's blood-stained leg wrapped in one of my socks was thoroughly exciting, my blood really got pumping when we accidentally snuck up behind two skunks with their tails in firing position. Rather than continue on with our night-caching adventures we decided to make our way back home so Mike could clean his wound.

On the way home, we stopped by Wal-Mart to get some batteries and refreshment. While there we decided to purchase a cheap-o movie. We went home and opened the movie to watch it, but the case was empty! The shrink-wrap was intact and the factory stickers were still in place, so it must have shipped sans DVD. Bummer. Fortunately, I was able to exchange it for an actual product.

I spent the night at my parent's house and slept on the floor. Saturday morning I went home and got ready for the Worldwide Leadership Meeting, which I was supposed to attend; however, I ditched the meeting and went to the church to work on the new computer system instead. The new system is nice, but requires a significant amount of manual re-entry. I worked on this project until it was time for the "clerk" meeting. Richard's dad was there, too. We were the only cool people there so we sat away from everyone else.

I left the meeting to go with Emilie's dad on an evening bike ride. This time we went up to ride the Flume Trail. The total ride was about 18 miles and was pretty crazy. Mosquitos were out in full-force, so there was no stopping. This was my first time on this trail, so it was particularly exciting. The ride up is incredibly steep, but once you reach the top of the first big climb the rest is not too bad. I couldn't help but wonder how many people have died riding that ride. The ride down was extremely fast and scary since it was getting to be mostly dark by that time. We reached the car just as the last ounce of sunlight disappeared.

While at church on Sunday I got a call from work regarding a virus that was hitting. I had to go in and work for a couple hours to help remediate the situation. We went to Washoe Valley to see Emilie's family and then had dinner with my family.

A lot of stuff packed in to a short amount of time. And I'm still covered with mosquito bites.