6-10-10

Yesterday we went and saw Diary of a Wimpy Kid
at the theater. I know you are not supposed
to bring food or drinks into the theater
but the whole idea of a $1.50 theater is
to save you money. I cannot afford $5
a popcorn for everyone PLUS drinks.
Everyone can make fun of my large purse
but ya know it sure suits me well.
I managed to get four 20 ounce bottles
of pop along with 2 small bags of
chips in there. Total cost of $5.22
from Speedway. I used a $1.00 off
two 20 ounces of Dr. Pepper.
I still have a bunch of those coupons
and they do come in handy!
I'm telling ya, scope out Speedway for coupons
during the Summer months! I found
more coupons for .35 cents off
Skittles or Starburst. I can take
them over to Kroger and get those
coupons doubled to .70 cents off
probably making those candies free
or almost free when on sale!!
Unless coupons specifically say Speedway
on them you can use them at any grocery store.

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From about 11 to 3:00
we went up to Delaware Dam area.
All our fishing holes were spoken for.
You would have thought it was the weekend
with so many people fishing and putting
boats in the water!
We ended up at Hoover.



DOES ANYONE SEE SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS
PICTURE????






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Got home and got some grub in the bellies.
Then me and Tony worked on getting the "new"
hood and hinges on the blue Trans Am.
It originally had hood pins and you had
to totally remove the hood to work under the hood.





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8:00pm

Tonight we're going to go see Marmaduke
and possibly Shrek
(depending how tired we are)
at the drive-in-theater.
Taking along a jug of Kool-Aid
and 2 bags of premade microwave popcorn.
Always looking for ways to do things
and save money at the same time :0)

I guess me and mom will be doing some
yard sales tomorrow morning.
Late to get to bed and early to get up.
I see my butt will be dragging tomorrow!
So I am currently sitting here
mapping our route of sales I found
in the SNP or Craigslist.
Looks like we'll be hitting this area
and Westerville as usual.

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MIDNIGHT

Just returned home from the movie.
Kids went straight to bed.

GARDEN 6-9-10

Checking out the garden since we've been back.
All the plants are growing like weeds, lol,
with all this rain!
My friend Kendra gave me some
sweet potato plants! Have to
get those into the ground soon.

6-9-10

More pics and videos from
our vacation in Hocking Hills.

Monday June 7th continued.

After lunch at Grandma Faye's
we headed over to Lake Logan
to take the kids fishing.
There was a little turtle
sunbathing next to a tree
where we were fishing.
We also saw what appeared to be
a helicopter hauling a log.
That was interesting to see.
He passed over Lake Logan.











Fishing was kind of boring so we
decided to head down to Nelsonville
and Lake Hope.

We stopped in Nelsonville so the kids
could see the Hocking Valley Scenic
Railway train cars.

















LAKE HOPE

We haven't been here in 11 years.
We did a lil fishing. Christopher
caught a bluegill. I caught a turtle.
Lake Hope is about a 50 mile
round trip from Logan.



















Returned back to the hotel.
Went swimming 8-9:00pm.



Hotel patio area.
View of restaurant, petting zoo,
putt putt, glass outlet and canoe livery right
behind hotel.









TUESDAY JUNE 8TH

Breakfast at the hotel.
They had donuts, cereal, waffles, toast,
french toast, blueberry muffins, oranges, bananas, apples,
coffee, tea, milk, apple and orange juice
to offer.









Checked out of the hotel around 10ish.
Then headed into Logan.









FROM LOGAN WE WENT TO OLD MAN'S CAVE.



































I'm not one to do bridges, especially ones you walk
over. Here is a photo of the bridge from the
bottom and a video of where the kids wanted to
walk on this thing from the top.





Last stop was Conkle's Hollow.
I will post those pics and videos here
in a little bit. Eyes are starting to cross
with sooo many pics and videos to go through.
I think I took around 300.
We would have probably stayed another
day but saw rain was coming through for
today and decided to come home instead.

Tomorrow we're thinking about taking
the kids to a drive-in-movie. Something
different for them to enjoy.
Cost $18 for all 4 of us.
They have Marmaduke and Shrek playing
back to back. Not too bad for a family of 4
to see 2 movies. Plus we could bring
our own drinks and snacks to save
even more money.
I priced these 2 movies to be seen
in an indoor theater and it
would cost us $24 before 6pm.
After 6pm would cost $48
to see these 2 movies.

We might do an indoor theater
today. The theater on Bethel Rd.
has movies for $1.50 a person.
So $6.00 for a family of 4.
They have Alice in Wonderland,
Tooth Fairy and Diary of a Wimpy Kid
that are kid oriented movies.
I'm thinking the movie Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

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Back from the movie, a walk around Petland
and Kroger.

Back to photos and videos, ahhhh! LOL!

For those who have not been to Hocking Hills,
pictures cannot show the sheer sizes
of these rocks throughout all the photos.
It's hard to believe all this is in Ohio!
If it weren't for finding decent jobs
in Logan or Ohio's severe Winters I would
love to live down there!

CONKLE'S HOLLOW

While there we saw a Ringnecked snake
and a salamander. The first I have ever
seen in Ohio.