A day in the valley...

We are now in Ruby Valley for the second day. Wow it has been quite the last day or so. We decided that last night after our hay ride through the fields of the Neff Ranch we would go in for a movie in town and pick up the new Harry Potter book...Well the movie we say was Transformers, which was a pretty cool movie. Seeing a movie in Elko rather than Vegas sames about 7 dollars. So the movie was worth it and I had fun with Sam and Ben Neff and my sister Melissa.

After the movie we went to Walmart and got the new Harry Potter book and had fun on the way home talking about the book again especially what we expect and about the culture that has developed around this series of books. Anyway I am not going to read the book until I am driving home with my wife. We do sometimes read books together and both look forward to this book to read slowly and discuss what we think is going on.

Well the fun of the day started when I got home at 2:30 am and went to bed after being up since 5 am. Zach at about 3 am today decided that he could sleep because he didn't eat any of his dinner or much lunch at all. Well we tried to get him back to sleep and other things and then finally fed him and he was ready to get up and play at about 3:45. This was not what we wanted and so tried to get him to go back to sleep. Well he was furious about the idea of getting back to bed. So I had to hold him and get him to calm down and be a bit happier and then he went to his bed and fell asleep after screaming and then crying for about 15 minutes. By this time it was 5:15 am. So this was not boding well because I was going to go to the refuge this morning at about 5:30.

So at 6:15 I got out of bed and headed to the refuge with my sister Jenny. We were trying to get 3 birds for our year lists, the Glossy Ibis, Black Tern, and Horned Grebe. We got all but the Black Tern, which I thought would be a snap. Well we went all over the Ruby Valley National Wildlife Refuge and didn't get a hint of a look. Oh well. With the other two birds I broke my record from last year which was 271. I am now at 272 and hope that I can get to 300 before the end of the year. I have 5 1/2 months left to get 28 species. Well that may be seemingly easy but with not much travel left for the year 28 more is a pretty high task. So we will see.

Well after that we went and played games and treasure hunts at Brighams and have had a great time so far. Tonight our update and talent show and then I may get some sleep...