At the laundry yesterday (it was raining so it was a good day for washing), there was a sign posted about a mountain lion sighting in the park; this morning I made Mike come walking with me as I think I could outrun him if we encountered a mountain lion! Well we didn’t, but we did see two bobcats. I think the first one we saw was the same one as the other day as he was in the same area; he wasn’t relaxing this time though but looking for food. The other one was at the far end of the park; he was sunbathing, just lying in the grass without a care in the world. It did get up and move as we got closer, but he wasn’t in so much of a hurry that he couldn’t take a second to scratch an itch.

Mike: Becc, very funny but looks aren't everything! Besides you run like a girl!

After getting home and getting clean we headed back to Hollister to visit Verizon Wireless to see about getting some kind of device to put us back in touch with the rest of the world. We had stopped by the store on our last visit to town but they were so busy we didn’t stay. Today we spent about 2 hours in the store with a very nice lady who has solved all our communication problems. Since we are still under contract with AT&T we couldn’t cancel their service, but we’d been reading about a wireless hotspot that Verizon sells called a "Jetpack", and it was one of those that we came home with today. If it wouldn’t work at the park we had planned to get a pay-as-you-go phone and we mentioned this to the sales chick; she proceeded to sell us a home connect device which basically gives us a ‘home’ phone anywhere that Verizon has service. We ate Chinese for lunch and then rushed home to see if both, or either of them worked. Well, Mike hasn’t stopped smiling since we got back, as the phone works perfectly, and the hotspot works even better. We can now stay in touch wherever we, even from the back of beyond, and I have no more excuses for not keeping this blog up to date.

Mike: I told you man fix things! UGH! UGH!