J & I have been busy with four gigs in 2 weekends! Last Saturday we played for a wedding reception party, then on Sunday we played at the Ethereal Lineage El Salvador Benefit Concert. Last night, we played ukulele music for a luau at Bald Eagle Commons, and tonight (8/21/11), check us out at Mountain Creek Waterpark’s Christian Concert! The concert is from 5-8, but we will be performing from 6:15-6:45. Hope to see you there! There is a $5 cover charge.
J and I have been travelling the country! He got to meet my very dear Verity friends at Bekah and Cameron's wedding in Illinois. Then a few weeks later we traveled across the country to Washington State for his friend Ryan's wedding. Ryan's family rented out a mansion with a medieval theme so all of his visiting friends could stay there. It felt like we were living in a castle! The first few nights, I got to stay in the "tower room," all the way up at the top, and J stayed in the "wizard room" all the way down in the dungeon. It was so much fun! One night, everyone in the house dressed up in the costumes provided throughout the castle and we all took pictures. There were around 30 people staying there all told. The place was called Woodhaven Castel and you can find it online at http://woodhavencastle.com/.
One day in Washington we took a hike in the mountains with Ryan and some of our friends. What an amazing experience! The rich evergreens, the steep drops, the snow-crested peaks all told us we weren't in NJ anymore. Along the way, we crossed many glacier streams, explored a cave, had an icy snowball fight, and discovered the wreckage of an airplane! The twisted fuselage looked SO out of place among the natural beauty of the Granite Mountains. We also did a decent amount of rock climbing and boulder-jumping.... I discovered that I have a fear of descending off steep rocks - i'm not afraid to climb up them, but it's hard to climb down safely! No one was hurt, thank God - besides a bunch of mosquito bites from the hoards around the wreckage! Lol, that was the only place we saw bugs anywhere – probably because they were all gathered in that one boggy place!
It was approximately an 11-mile hike round-trip, over steep terrain, but all 8 of us did it, and did it well! Becky and I were the only girls who braved the trails :) It was a trip we will never forget!
Our most recent adventure was in St. Louis visiting J's sister, Sam, and her new baby. She and her husband suggested J and I check out the Loft Museum downtown, and let me tell you, if you are ever in St. Louis you HAVE to check it out!!! That museum is like nothing we had ever seen in our lives. It's basically a humongous playground for kids and adults! It's laid out more like a shopping mall than a museum, 11-stories tall, and once you buy your day pass you are on your own! Exploring is not only encouraged but a necessity as you discover something new around every corner. Besides the expected artifacts and antiques of any museum, this one also has a skateboard-less skate park (kids were going crazy everywhere, running and sliding on half-pipes and ramps!), with a labyrinth beneath it! You enter standing and end up kneeling, then crawling, and even sliding your way around twists and turns, taking forks in the road and wondering if the next opening will get bigger or smaller.
Another huge attraction is their outdoor "jungle gym" - like nothing you've ever seen before in your life! The spiral ladders and stairs lead higher and higher several stories to an airplane suspended in the air, a truck cockpit, and several steep and awesome slides.
One of the main attractions is a 10-foot slide… which J and I actually found quite uncomfortable. It was a spiral slide made out of old metal from the shoe factory the museum used to be. You end up kinda awkwardly helping yourself along, trying not to let your shoulder or hip get bruised by the side of the slide. But hey, can anyone else say THEY have gone on a 10-foot slide?? I think that’s an awesome thing to be able to say. And if YOU can say that, too, send me a comment and tell me about it!
The best part of the slide, though, was that you exit smack dab in the middle of indoor caverns! J and I spent quite some time trying to find our way out of the caves just to get back to the museum! It was super-awesome, we felt like real adventurers.
Yeah… J and I are just big kids at heart, and for all you never-gonna-grow-up types out there, remember the St. Louis City Museum! It’s a blast. You can check it out at http://www.citymuseum.org/about.html
Keep visiting the site to hear more J & Kay adventures, coming soon! J
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