I gotta tell ya, it’s been raining cats & dogs!  I’m not complaining.  I actually truly enjoy rain.  I love the sound and the smell and the dark shadows it casts in the house.  I love being home…doing my thang…when it’s raining!

But this is getting serious.  Since I was up at 2AM changing the battery in the smoke detector…don’t get me started…I began thinking I best get started gathering my TWO’s.  I wanna be ready when Noah swings by later!

I think it’s important to pack light.  Which I’ve never done in my entire life, but I’m gonna give it a shot.  And I think I’ll take the things that I simply can’t live without.  Yeah.  That sounds like a good idea.

I’m a little perturbed about this TWO thing *rule*.  I tried calling Noah and got a recording…something about “English or Spanish” and press “1″ for this and “2″ for that.  I hung up.  Then I started wondering if that was a Noah rule or a God rule?  uh-huh.

Will there be a bag limit or weight limit and how many ounces of liquid can I take, what about my laptop, I need to tell someone I prefer a window seat (are there window seats on a rather large boat?) and will I have to do a body scan to get on the Ark?  Is it a deal breaker if I only have ONE of something?

Was it Noah that started all these nightmare-ish travel rules?  I’m beginning to wonder…

Here are a few *necessities* I’ve gathered so far…

…have lip gloss, will travel…

i would feel completely lost without a Louis Vuitton…or two…

that reminds that TWO totes are essential…the pink one Tricia gave me and the white one that red.neck girl, Robelyn, made…

does that mean only TWO outfits…huh…then it’s gotta be…

ahh, the silver lining…i’ll only need TWO of these…

i think my friend Mindy would agree to take these…for holding…ummm…stuff…

i don’t go anywhere without these…but wait…is it ONE pair or TWO slippers?

Man.  This is hard! 

Well anyway, gotta run…it’s raining again and there’s more gathering to do!  What are you packing for your stay on the Ark?

Holy Cow!  I think we made it about 10 miles in 9 hours!  Well, we might have made it a little bit further than that, but not by much!

Surrounded by JUNK!  My head was spinning!  Can I take just a moment to tell you how incredibly HOT it was!  OMGosh!  And the only thing I can’t do when I’m hot is spend money…but today…I overcame that!

I was feeling good about working on my tan while shopping, you know multi-tasking….until I got in the shower and washed my *tan* right down the drain!  ICK!

Now we’re making up the rules as we go….here’s a new one:  Tricia and I will be playing some guessing games on our blogs and the first person that gets the answer right gets their name added to the hat an extra FIVE times!

I’m tellin’ ya, you WANT to win!

You know how I love me some multiples!  I stumbled across a canister of some interesting little…thingies!  I didn’t know what they were but the kind gentleman (I’ll explain that in a minute) was happy to enlighten me!

As a side note…we came across that “gentleman” at the very end of the day…we decided that as stinky as we were we still smelled about a thousand times better than he did!

Now, where was I?  Oh yeah…it’s time to leave a comment with your best guess!  Here are a few details to help: they are about 4″ long, metal and in red, purple, green and yellow!

(yeah and, uh, please excuse the hotel wash cloth background…trust me, a much better choice than the *floral* print bedspread!)

Think you know?  Start guessing!

And don’t forget to jump on over to Tricia’s blog and see what she’s got goin’ on!

I grabbed my partner-in-crime and we’re headed to the The World’s Longest Yard Sale – The 127 Corridor Sale!

We’ve spent the last three days in *stretch* class…opening and closing our wallets…wrapping…lifting…loading…unloading…climbing in and out of the Sprinter!  We’re limber, lean and ready to arm wrestle, trip or shove…I pity the fool who gets in our way!

The Sprinter is empty…the trailer is empty…and we would consider it a failure of monumental proportions if we don’t fill them both to the brim!

Now…selfish we are not!  This adventure requires audience participation…that’s YOU!

Read on for the skinny…

rules:
1. there are no rules! we’re making it up as we go!
2. we’re pickin’ a winner on friday, august 13 and that lucky duck gets a grab bag of treasures we collect on our *adventure*! 
don’t doubt…it’s gonna be FAB!

the fine print:
1. you gotta a lot of options…leave a comment on my blog and Tricia’s or Facebook or Twitter between now and Wednesday, August 11 and we’ll throw your name in the hat for every comment left!
2. if you want to up the ante…cuz it’s gonna be worth it…post our *adventure* button on your sidebar and you will get your name in the hat TWO more times!
3. pull out your big guns and do a post about it…that’ll get you an extra FIVE!
4. now if you do #2 & #3 you gotta tell us….so shoot an email over and let us know!
5.  check us both out each and every day as both of us will be playing different games and you don’t want to miss either one…see #1!

LET THE shopping GAMES BEGIN!