Toe Bang with the Tuesday Night Girls

Dear Lindsay,

Steph, Edith, and I enjoyed a delicious (and vegetarian) Korean dinner on Wednesday. We toasted in your name with our Strawberry Saki-like cocktails. Corn-Cheese, Seafood Pancake,Veggie Pancake, and Red Bean Shaved Ice kept our bellies during our 4 hour dinner. I think I'd drink more water if it was always flavored with barley. We probably went through a good 5 pitchers.

Why a 4 hour dinner you ask? The three of us had a lot of catching up to do. During the course of our meal I learned that Edith's college went streaking on every first rain of the year and Steph's house burnt down when she was a kid...oh and Steph got teary over some upcoming reality tv (I had permission to say that!). We sure did miss you and I filled them in on Claude!

We took some great pictures, but for some reason I can't find them on my camera. I took the red bean picture on my phone. It was much more delicious than it looks!

Love,

Adrienne (and Edith and Steph)

From Darren Snider...

Gold Prospecting and Cthulhu

Well Lindsay, you probably already keep up with me on Facebook (as with my millions of followers/fans), so I won’t bore you with the greatness that is my daily life. Instead, I wanted to drop by and show Adrienne’s blog some love (I promise she didn’t pressure me to write! Okay, so she basically twisted my arm 2,000 miles away, but that’s alright because as I told her, I’m a terrible friend and sometimes I need that friendly reminder).

Kevin is visiting back home this weekend from Washington D.C. and the awesomeness is about to be in full effect. We’re helping his girlfriend move at first, but after that it’s nothing but fun. You see, we used to watch a show called Gold Fever back in High School. It was a terribly long, low budget show on the Outdoor Channel that aired real late at night. Well, long story short, they had a kit that one could purchase in hopes of finding gold in their very own backyard streams. So after 10 years, the dream is finally a reality and we own that very kit.

Now, I’ve already used it once and found one flake of gold (probably 2 cents worth) over by Sycamore Park in Batavia. And as Tom (The host of the Gold Fever show) would say, “It ain’t much, but it sure was fun to find!” So true Tom, so true…

So Hopefully, in between the horseshoes, darts, cards, movies, drinking and singing to old country songs (and of course Dean), we’ll have some time to kick back in a creek and go panning for gold. I can hear the babbling brook now.

Another side night in my life: I’ve increased my dork factor by about 10 as I am getting into H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Call of Cthulhu” (the old horror story from the 1920’s). As you being the avid reader, I highly suggest it. It’s very short, 20 something pages but very good considering the time period. And although the Cthulhu image has dwindled down to a mere side gag in the sci-fi world today, it is cool to pay tribute to the man who created the creature that in 1926 must have been truly terrifying to the readers. I guess I’m a sucker for the Old Great Ones.

Anyway, hope my first blog attempt was at least a little bit entertaining. Hope you’re having a blast in Africa and as always, we all miss you! Be safe!

Darren

For your amusement

Dear Lindsay,
Apparently my blog for you is not the success I hoped it would be! I see you're still keeping in touch with people via facebook and getting calls. That's all the matters. I will still continue posting on here, even if I'm the only writer :) Here's some cute pictures...
Love,
Adrienne

New Couch & Shreds

Dear Lindsay... It's Adrienne again. Your brother is still working on sending your shoes to Ohio. I thought I'd speed up the process by shredding all your old files. I'm half way through! I have to say, I'm impressed by your organization.

I'm getting the house ready for some birthday festivities. What do you think of the new couch cover?

Talk soon!

Adrienne

From the Fluhr Family

Dear Lindsay,
It's your friends Austin and Chase writing. Thanks for making a difference in this world. We love what you are doing and look forward to keeping up with your journey! Stay safe.
XO,
The Fluhrs

Dear Lindsay Caldwell,

This is your friend Adrienne writing... I created this blog so anyone you know can post blogs for you to read. There are no rules. It can be a letter, a funny story, pictures, videos, etc. My hope is that your friends use it to keep you up to date with what's going on in their life as well. To simplify things I will do all the posting. Friends and family can e-mail their posts to AdrienneCalifornia@hotmail.com or message me on facebook. I hope this turns into something fun.
Lots of love,
Adrienne