5 year patheticness

Woohoo, got my huge check, not.
$150, so after taxes $85 and change. Which I know is nothing to sneeze at, but these awards used to be $500, so this just seems petty.
Whatever, it's more amusing then aggravating.

Gold Country weekend

I never wrote about my weekend did I. Well here are the non-in-law related highlights
- we stayed at the Best Western Placerville Inn, which was quite nice. Very clean, very well run.
- we went panning for gold in the American River at Coloma. This was super fun. We bought a couple of plastic gold pans in Placerville. At one point I was sitting on a rock at the edge of the river and I could just look in the river and see the gold flakes glittering in the river. Next time will bring my water sandals tho, cause those rocks are too hard to walk barefoot on
- went briefly into a thrift shop in Angel's Camp, cool prices, but nothing took my fancy.
- went into a great yarn shop in Sonora, got a couple balls of this thick and thin type yarn in purply pink shades, and a super soft ball of black Merino, microfibre, cashmere blend that I'm gonna finish my hat off with.
- I want to go back up there again, just with Mr jo, maybe visit some of the wineries, and see more of the southern gold country (like south of Angel's Camp)
- It was really hot.

Squeeeeee!

ohmigod, so cute. I lurve these hats!
http://www.genkigang.com/genkigang.html
Go to the store area. I totally wanna get a rabbit one for my friend's 4year old b'day.