Kayak to China

So my friend Luke and I were talking at work about biking, and I told him I bike way more than him...but on an elyptical at the gym. In fact that I could have probably biked to China by now via elyptical. He said there way no way that was possible, and okay, maybe it was a slight exaggeration on my part. So to debate this we got onto Google maps to see how far away China actually is by getting directions from the United States to China.

So Google Maps gave us 133 easy steps to get to China. But a few weren't so easy.

Steps 1-30: Drive all the way up to the Washington Coast.

Step 31: Kayak across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii.

Step 32-46: Drive across the Hawaii islands?

Step 47: Kayak across the rest of the Pacific Ocean to Japan.

Step 48 - 104: Driving all over Japan until you get to the southern tip.

Step 105: Jet ski across the Pacific Ocean.

Step 106-133: Drive to the center of China.


....I don't know about you, but I think I'd rather dig to China than spend 38 days and 2 hours going 11,329 miles which includes Kayaking and Jet Skiing across the entire Pacific Ocean.


My directions, 2 steps.

1: Drive to closest airport.
2: Board plane to China.


On the positive side this google search was so entertaining that it distracted Luke from proving me wrong about my elyptical track record :)

My Acceptance to Hogwarts

I haven't blogged in a million years and thought this would be a good ice breaker....





It's official, I have received my admittance letter to Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft. Let me explain:

The other day I received a letter in the mail at work. It wasn't from our company and it wasn't to anyone at our company. There was no return address on it, just an address to a lady in Colorado, which was apparently undeliverable. Weird....how did it end up at our office? So I wrote return to sender on it thinking the post office would dispose of it or do something with it. I put it in a big blue postal drop box and washed my hands of it. Then, today, I received the same letter again!! How did it find it's way back?? It's incredible!! It's like putting a blank envelope in the USPS drop box and having it show up at your house twice. So my theory is that somewhere in invisible ink or in that USPS scan bar in tiny print it says:

Mrs. S. Nelson
The Cupboard Under the Stairs
American Liberty Insurance

On a more serious note though, I will be accepting my spot at Hogwarts. I think I will be buying an owl and I suspect my wand will have Unicorn hair inside of it. Please let me know if you would like a souvenir of your own from Diagon Alley.