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In the first episode of my pack rat series, I mentioned that I would one day get rid of my collection of hotel soaps.  Since we finished renovating the bathroom floor last week, today seemed like a good time to do it.

I’ve mentioned before that I take the soaps from hotels, but can you believe I’ve amassed this much?  I mean, who takes baths on vacations, right? (Just kidding)

There are soaps and shampoos from California, Las Vegas, Baltimore, Washington DC, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, many from Disney World and Disney Cruise Lines and even a bar from an Amtrak train!  In the next few months, I plan to add soap from Tennessee, Colorado, and Louisiana.

When I was younger and would go on school or church trips, I would make sure I was first into the hotel room so that I could swipe the soap before anyone noticed.  And if someone would call the front desk to report the missing soap and request more, I would swipe that too!

I have enough soaps and shampoos to mask the odor of several bodies for a very long time.  This isn’t even all of it!  After taking those photos, of course I found more hotel soap that had wandered away from my main stash.  And this doesn’t include all of the bars that I’ve used since I decided to stop collecting it and start using it. (No, we aren’t throwing it out.) We won’t have to buy soap or shampoo again for a VERY long time!

This has been a beautiful weekend!

Saturday, we were up bright and early so that I could run the 5K at the Dogwood Festival in Perry.  Last year, this was one of my favorite 5Ks, so I had to do it again.  And, at $10 per person, I put Kimberlie and Tristan in it too.  I nailed a personal record, shaving 30 seconds off of a race I did 2 weeks ago.

Afterwards, the kids went to a birthday party for one of Tristan’s classmates and then Kimberlie and the kids planted flowers while I got things done around the house (that’s code talk for checked facebook 9000 times and read email and blogs).

This weekend’s pictures are courteous of the law school’s new Canon 50D.  Back in November, I wrote about the law school’s new Canon 40D.  I waited over 2 years for the law school to budget for a nice camera for our building, and as soon as I got the 40D, WMG (worthless marketing guy) stole it from us.  After my complaints reached the right people, we were given permission to order a second camera.  Of course I chose a nicer one.  I love the 50D!

Today is my and Kimberlie’s 6 year anniversary.  After church, we had a nice meal and then came home and took a long nap.  It’s rare for the entire house to take a nap at the same time.