Birthday Bash Weekend

*Our traditional road trip pic by SHH

It's been a while since I blogged as I've been bogged down in life issues of late. So, as a nice respite, my bestest friend,Liz, and I drove down to Astoria, Oregon to help celebrate our friend's birthday. Kuku turned 50 this year and invited as many of her letterboxing friends as could make it to join in her celebration.

We had sweet afternoon tea at an Astoria Bed & Breakfast where a special project, the 4th Order of the Quest, made its debut - SHH (Liz) did a fabulous job making the simple, beautifully crafted box into an amazing Jedi holocron - sweet to this Star Wars geek! We sure had fun watching folks work on the code to get the official SHH carved stamp to add their collection of images!

Our friend, BlackvelvetRav (Kelly) flew in from Boise to join the party, so we took her touristing down to Cannon Beach doing some letterboxing, hiking the trails, driving through the quaint shopping area, and eating at world famous Mo's. Oh, and Kelly got to experience real Oregon coast rain and wind!

We also spent time with Kuku and Yiker (and others) in their hotel room stamping away - you know, all those personal travelers and sig stamp exchanges, not to mention any event stamps hangin' around. Lots of laughter and inky fingers!

Saturday evening, we joined the group, now larger, at a local Astoria Pub for birthday cake and more of that stampin' thing - have to say we had a great time schmoozing with friends, old and new. Letterboxers are some of the most friendly, nice people I've ever been around!

The next morning, Kuku and Yiker joined us at our hotel (Kelly shared a room with us) before Kelly, Liz, and I walked the Astoria waterfront touristing and 'boxing - got some awesome boxes! Then, off to the airport for Kelly in that most awesome of rentals - a brilliant red Mustang - sweet!

You have to know that we met Kelly about 2 years ago on our first month long road trip where we met letterboxers all across the country - she spoiled us with an incredible mini-meet (the first of many) at her house with her fellow Boise boxers. She's great!

All in all, yet one more cool chronicle in my life as a letterboxer!