New book, Massage and hiking pictures!

Left to right: girl I don't know, Mark, Mathew (Carolyn's man), Carolyn, me, Nick, Kayla, Kevin, Girl I don't know, Chet, Candi, Gerry. All at Little Missouri's bar.

I think I forgot to mention my 75 minute massage. It was a full body and about 10 minutes into it I was laying there on my face thinking "god this is restful, I hope it helps my shoulder." And right then she said "I'm using extra essential oils on your shoulder since my darling, you are tense." It was amazing, she would work on my right shoulder arm or peck and it would just feel nice then she would do the same thing on the other side and it would hurt like blazes. She said she could feel the difference in temperature on my left shoulder so it's probably constantly inflamed.
So after the massage and stagger into the reception all relaxed and completely confused with my hair all messed up and this guy who has been chatting with the masseuse says "Oh hey it's the fiddler!" Then they start talking about my shoulder and he had me try a couple things that pretty much proved that my left shoulder is totally weird. It turns out he is a chiropractor and he offered to fix my shoulder right there. He said he wasn't licensed in North Dakota but the masseuse seemed cool with him so I said go for it. And I'll be damned, he actually did fix it. I mean it's still weird and always will be, but the range of motion improved by about half an inch. I probably should have someone do that every 6 months or so...

I started Dragonhaven by Robin McKinley last night. I'm so hooked. I love her so much I didn't even read the back, I just started reading (that's always the most fun anyway). It turns out it's an urban fantasy about a 15 year old boy who lives with his dad on a national park that has...... DRAGONS. It's such perfect timing to be reading this! I was sitting on the Chuck Wagon patio reading it and he finds a dragon (unusual since they are notoriously hard to sight despite being as large as a decent sized house). But she is dying and his mom died two years before and he and his dad are still dealing with it and then his dog died six months after his mom and then there is this big beautiful animal that was killed by a poacher and he loses it and so did I. So I was sitting there with all the tourists around me reading about a teenage boy crying with his head against a dead dragon's giant scaly nose while I covertly dab at my eyes and then I discovered Carolyn and Mathew were sitting right behind me and I hadn't even noticed. When I say that it sounds really melodramatic but they way that the book puts it is really not. His voice is so kind of funny and self deprecating that it actually took me a while to realize that the protagonist is really depressed.

Here are Hannah's picture's from our adventure:

And don't forget cute little Hannah!