Happy New Year

After a long drive up I-5 and a short ferry ride we arrived at my parents house on Lummi Island.

We had the grand tour, they moved here in November and this has been our first trip to the new Pitman pad.

We enjoyed a nice dinner of pork and sauerkraut, then it was off to open gifts.

My parents have been invaded by the native island pest....Raccoons. They have been getting into their garage and eating cat food and scaring the poor cats. They are really starting to do some damage. So they got a live trap and my dad went out to set it up during our gift opening. Then when we were all done, about 20 min later, he went out to check it and guess what! There was a raccoon in it!!! What a surprise it was for all of us. The kids were so excited. After taking pictures the guys took it to the other side of the island and free'd the little guy. We reset the trap to try and catch the second one but so far have had no luck....my guess is that tonight we will have #2!

What wild things we are! I was going to say we made it to 12, but that is a flat out lie, so I will tell the truth and say we did not make it to see the ball drop, but we gave it a good effort.

Welcome 2009!