We headed north from Rockledge on Saturday at about 5AM, arriving in Boone at 3:30. We stopped by FirstTrax to pickup a rental for Donavin and they had exactly ONE board left. Everyone, everywhere was sold out…not a good sign. Sunday morning, we woke up at 7AM and started on breakfast; burritos. Made some spam for the boys to taste, because they never had it before. We cleaned up then headed up to Beech Mountain Resort. While Donavin was taking lessons, Brandon, Trevor and I did a few laps on the Oz run. When Donavin met back up with us, he headed right up on the greens and blues and did great. Due to the crowds, we headed back to the campground to make an early dinner. When we arrived, it was DESTROYED. Apparently winds picked up our tent, with everything inside and tossed it around the campground. A neighboring …keep reading …
2014 Reading Challenge & My Favorite Books of the Year
So this is officially my third year of taking the Goodreads.com personal reading challenge. The challenge is to set a goal to read a set number of books over the course of the year. This year my goal was 48 books, which was 12 less than 2013. During 2013, I felt like I was always in a race to finish books, and I was always leery of starting too large of a book. This year, I’ve decided to slow down and enjoy the books I’ve selected. I finished up all of the John Green books this year as well as tackled some classics that I’ve had on my list for quite a while. As a whole, there was nothing that WOW’d me like “The Book Thief” and “The Dog Stars” did last year, but there were some notables. Favorite Book of the Year Room – Emma Donoghue What a story. …keep reading …