Halloween night

Here I am with Darnell in front of HR. I called my costume Skeleton Bride but someone in the housing office said I could call it a reserected Harvey girl & this is what u look like if u have been at the canyon since 1898.


Here's a close-up of Vanessa our shuttle bus driver. She was freaking out guests all day dressed like this.

Have no idea who these girls are but thought it was a strange place to hide a glowstick.

My neighbor Kristy is wearing the playboy bunny ears & Taco from fire & secruity was also taking pics of everyone.

Met this freaky guy creeping around Maswik.

Here we are, me & Jeff & Brenda starting the evening at Maswik. I have a Marguarita held up & Brenda got a new drink....Witch's Brew, which was actually a Tokyo Ice Tea (I think)

Not sure if Brenda was trying to flirt or just distract Jeff from the game...didn't matter because Jeff won anyways.

Brenda was getting my money out so I could play tunes on the jukebox...I love the look on her face.

Pumpkin display at Maswik.

My co-worker, Jason came into Maswik after work. Even though his face is covered in make-up, I knew Brenda we must of made him turn red a couple times tonight.

Here I am with Jason.

Ok, I haven't dressed up for halloween for about 15-20 years, and I had a blast doing it this year. I loved all the guests reactions to my costume. I even found out the Australia is trying to make Halloween a holiday but have no luck with it so far...so 1 dad took my picture with his kids.

Even some of my co-workers didn't recognize me at first.

Even though I ended up getting sick by the end of the night (Brenda says I'm a graceful drunk...LOL) It was still a fun night.

Queen of Halloween

This is the pumpkin, that Brenda carved out...it's whats greeting everyone at her door.


Just 1 shot of the treat bags that Brenda was making up for a bunch of people and she went all out this year with them. They were fabulous!!! In fact I am munching on my chocolate-covered pretzel sticks as I am typing this at 3:30am. You probably can't tell, but the stuff is sitting on her bed which has an orangy halloween blanket & pillowcases too.

Here is Brenda making up a goodie bag. She has had halloween music playing on her computer for weeks now which is why her computer is left on behind her.

These looked terrific. She got the idea from a Martha Stewart magazine. Someone at her workplace asked if she could make 20 of these for a kids party next year.

This was the display that she had set up at work. The little brownie coffins were already gone by the time I took this picture.

She may be dressed as a witch, but I will continue to call her "The Queen of Halloween"

We were getting ready to go out to Maswik for the evening & just our luck the bus driver was also dressed up.

memories

As usual, I leave my computer on all night while I'm sleeping...well the other night my computer decided to delete itself of all cookies, everything that I had on my favorites list, wiped out all the music I had saved in I-tunes, limewire & windows media player and every single damn picture that I had saved in my documents....and there must of been a few hundred.
No more watchtower pics, no more pics of the Xanterra olympics or the trips that I went on with Brenda last year or my hiking trips from this year and worst of all...all the pics I had saved of my kids.

I haven't seen 2 of my children in person for a couple years...the youngest 3, I saw for 1 day in the last 3 years. Someday if I live old enough I might end up with alzheimer's my memory might get wiped out like this damn computer...and then what???
Pictures will never replace having actually been there with them...but its all I have...or I should say HAD. Luckily my oldest daughter is nice enough to send me pics once in awhile & a few times I have had to ask her who is even in the picture cuz I wasn't sure.
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well as a last resort, today I did a systems restore thingy ( I figured knowing me that I might screw it up even more if I had tried this before) but I got lucky...it worked!!!!! all my pictures are back. When I restarted my computer...I anxiously waited to see if 1 of my kids pics would pop up as the desktop...and it did! Almost felt like I had just won the lottery when it happened. ok from now on I am saving all the darn pics onto a CD...boy do I have work cut out for me there...LOL

The Hat Man

His real name is Dave, but we all refer to him as "The Hat Man" Dave & his wife Judy, came to the Grand Canyon last Fall and I was able to get 1 pic of him then when he stopped into Yavapai for lunch wearing a tall flamingo hat. Judy is a retired psychiatric nurse and now makes jokes about Dave being her #1 patient.
This year he brought a duffle bag of hats into Yavapai, and tried them each on while I got to snap pictures of him. He has 334 hats total and he wears them EVERYWHERE. A tour bus full of German guests came into the cafeteria while I was chatting with him & almost all of them were looking & pointing at him as they walked by.
Dave is wearing a special birthday hat here...it even plays music and the top of the hat will move. As you can see, my managers & cashier loved it.

hikers

This is Chelsea. She is a tour guide or something here at the canyon. So on her days off she likes to hike the canyon alot....can you see her feet? She is wearing open-toed sandals and a skirt. Yup, she's nuts. But she is telling a bunch of us about her website for different tours.
www.pygmyguides.com (or something like that...maybe without the "s") but I figured if I wanted to remember it I had to write it down somewhere...what better place then on my computer.

Do u notice 1 of the fat squirrels behind Chelsea among the rocks...they were everywhere.


This guy ran past me early this morning...he probably ran all the way down to the bottom cuz I never saw him again. But what the heck was his hurry? Ok, so maybe his knees are better then mine...but I enjoyed taking my time watching the birds & squirrels, listening to the crickets (or whatever it was) and taking the time to snap pictures.....which I have a few more pictures on myspace.

1.5 miles down

A lady was nice enough to offer to take my picture...this was a few yards past the 1.5 mile resthouse. Which is as far as I went today.

It took me 1 & 1/2 hours to get to that resthouse this morning and I hung around there about 2 hours chatting with different people, watching the fat squirrels run around and waiting for the mules to come down.


This was a view I had at 1 spot I decided to sit & rest on my way back up. Funny how I don't feel a need to sit at all on my way down to the 1.5 mile resthouse, but boy do I ever need to rest coming up....ALOT

And yes Brenda, I made sure to refill my water bottle before I left the resthouse. And hey, I got back to the top before the ice cream fountain closed this time.

Just when I hoped they gave up

I was just getting used to the idea of having my room to myself, but yesterday when I got home from work a native american came knocking on my door to say that she would be my new roomie. She wanted to stop in before her orientation to meet me...she made a comment about me having lots of stuff & she looked shocked/surprised when I said I get up between 2-3am EVERY morning.

Well I tried re-organize the closet while she was gone and even called the housing office to have someone send up a lamp for her...for some strange reason all the other roomies take the lamp with them when they change rooms. I was already in bed, by the time this roomie came back (and still no lamp for her) so while 1/2 asleep I turned mine on...she gave me some strange story about her nanny/babysitter walked out so she will be leaving the park tomorrow.

Geez...another one bites the dust
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And this morning I did good....I stayed in bed till 3:15am. Course she woke up at 4am for a minute and thought I was leaving right away.

Geez, wonder if housing office will learn not to send me any new roomies for the Winter...hell you would think with all the foreign kids going home soon, that they could find space elsewhere.