If the bench you sit on at work everyday has this sticker placed on it, would you be surprised if your butt started to glow? 

With the extremely large area of the Hanford DOE site, Robin doesn't get to leave for lunch. Here is a pic from her lunch break yesterday. The water you see is from the Columbia River, which makes you wonder why anyone would eat fish from water this close to nuclear waste. 

There are supposedly deer somewhere in this photo, Robin tells me. I can't find them, but this pic was taken from the top of a cliff. 

The Glowing River. 

I Officially Have A Place To Eat

Sound the all clear!

We found a place in Richland with not only decent Chinese food, but an excellent buffet with dumplings, sushi, and General Tso's Chicken.

The most important test, however, being the Hot & Sour Soup, which was great.

Now, if I could only get Robin to stop saying "Jack in the Box" every time I mention the rare adventure of eating out. I really missed Jack in the Crack while living in Amarillo and Oklahoma City, but after eating there so much when we first got here kind of ruined the reunion for me.

All I have to do now is get On The Border to open a franchise here for me.

Real Beer

Discovering what most people who have lived in Oklahoma for too long miss out on, I have my first hangover in years.

I'm not a binge drinker or a particularly heavy drinker. Usually 2 gets me ready for a nap. That's even with the idiotic low point beer found in bible-drunk states like Oklahoma.

Last week I decided to take advantage of having "real beer" at my disposal and bought a case of Corona Extra and six limes. I was ready for the weekend.

Friday: 2 beers
Saturday: 3 beers and a buzz
Sunday: forgot about the beer

I'm such a lightweight now. Which brings me to this morning. You know you are getting old when:
A) You would rather drink ice tea
B) You drink the beer to avoid having to make more tea
C) You get a hangover from 4 beers

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On the hunt 

Chloe 

Eating her loot 

Mommy was up late cooking. 

gigglemonster 

Hello 

Easter dresses. 

Look at me! 

Kayla bunny. 

Little bunnies. 

Good Friday

Taking full advantage of Robin's day off on Friday, we loaded up the car and drove to Yakima to look around.

There wasn't much to see there, but driving through the mountains was nice. It was the nicest day of the week with the sun shining for the first time in days.

After finding our way back to the Tri-Cities, we headed to the park. I'm glad we did because it's raining again today.

So much for the weatherman's assertion that we wouldn't see rain until September.

The Yakima Valley. 

A winery on the banks of the river.

The Yakima River. 

Looking up.