Friday July 31, 2009

Today I slept in a little as my stomach was upset after breakfast. Dad just played on the computer while I slept. This afternoon we went to Cornwall Park and played dominoes and Farkel for over 2 hours. Here's dad getting the games all back in the bag. The weather is spectacular today...about 73 degrees. Then we had dinner at the Shrimp Shack and took a ride out around Lake Whatcom. We came upon this house which had a deer in the front yard. He is just to the right of the white fence. It was packed with people around the lake enjoying the summer sun. Now back at the motel watching Jeopardy.

Thursday July 30, 2009

Today we had breakfast at the motel then went for a ride, and we took this picture of Dad's High School which is going to be demolished soon, and also some bison on a farm in their field. Met Nancy and her husband Jess at their new home on the farm and then went into Ferndale to Chihuahua's for Mexican dinner. It was good as usual. Then Jess took us for a ride out to Birch Bay to see the area as it has grown since Dad left here, and showed us a couple of places where he worked and some of the new housing subdivision. We stopped for an ice cream cone on the bay before heading back to the farm. It was a lovely evening. Here is a picture of Nancy and Jess' new home. They have done a lot of work around the farm so far and plan to do more. They are very happy.

Thursday July 30, 2009

Thursday July 30, 2009

We arrived in Bellingham last night and had nothing but trouble with the internet, so we waited til this morning to see what was the matter. It seems that the "site manager did not renew his whatever it takes to be wireless connected" so it wasn't working. He fixed it this morning after I complained. The Cascade Mountains were beautiful yesterday but we did not spend a whole lot of time outside as they are having a monumental heat wave here....103 degrees in some areas we went through. Very unlike Washington. Some don't even have air conditioning as it is never needed. Anyway, we are at Super 8 in Ferndale and all is well this morning. Ed went to do a load of washing while I am doing this blog. These are some photos of Ross Lake and other spots on the way across Washington. Have a good day!

Wednesday July 29, 2009

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

After a night of thunder, lightening, and rain, we got a very early start this morning as I had an 8 a.m. hair appointment at Wal-Mart with a lady who finally knew what to do with my hair. So, we had breakfast at the motel and looked at the e-mail and started out headed west. We came upon a lake by a resort with tables, so stopped for a couple of hours and enjoyed the sun and played Farkel and dominoes. I still wanted to get a photo of a wild animal, so we found this pretty brown cow at the side of the road, so dad stopped for me to take her picture. I, being the city girl that I am, said "Hello, pretty girl." and she turned to look at me as I snapped her picture dad, being the farm boy that he is, said "That is no lady and hurry up and get that window rolled up before this bull decides to take us both on. OHMYGOSH...it was a bull, appendages and all. WOW. How could I have missed that? We stopped at Crystal water falls and dad took these photos. So, then it started to rain cats and dogs, rain drops the size of silver dollars, thunder and lightening to boot. The last picture of the day has a deer running off into the woods....all you can see is a streak of brown by the trees on the far right. There was a fence to keep her out, but she made quick work of that fence going over it so gracefully we couldn't believe it. We ended up in Omak in eastern Washington, where it was 103 degrees upon arrival. Just came from dinner and now relaxing and watching tv. Nighty night. Hi Desi and Geronimo...glad you are home. We love you all, m and d, g and g, gg and gg.

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Monday July 27, 2009

This morning we headed west into Montana via highway 2 through the Kootenai area. Stopped at the Peck Gulch on the Koocanusa River and played a game of dominoes right on the river at a table they had there in a campground. There was one other camper there and one boat on the huge river.....they literally had the place to themselves. We then headed into Idaho past the Moyie River Dam you see here. Stopped en route at the Kootenai National Wild Life Game Reserve. We saw one deer and a bunch of geese, nothing other than a few birds, but it took us 2 hours to see it all it was so big, and the road was just gravel. They had the biggest wishes I have ever seen...bigger than a golf ball. Tonight we are in Sandpoint Idaho heading west tomorrow after I get my hair done at the local Wal-Mart, open 24 hours every day. WOW. Whoopee Goldberg is playing on the TV...Sister Act. We haven't seen this one. It was good to talk to you all today. We love you and the picture of Krysta is just darling. I have to try and figure out how to make it the wallpaper. Here is a cloud with a silver lining.
Love you all, d and m

Monday July 27, 2009

Sunday July 26, 2009

This morning we started out from Calgary and went east and south down to the Glacier National Park in northern Montana, so we are back in the good old USA. The ride was beautiful through grassy fields filled with beautiful wildflowers in red, pink, yellow, blue, lavender, and white. There are even Bear weeds which resemble polyps made of dandelion seeds. They are so pretty. We ran into a thunder/lightening/rain storm after we got out of Glacier Park and it was still raining after we came from dinner. The park was fabulous. We have been there before but we went from south to north last time. Today we went from north to south. Did not see any animals, just the human kind and there were plenty of those. We got the last room at the Super 8 Motel in Whitefish...the honeymoon suite no less. Now honestly, mirrors over the bed and a Jacuzzi, fireplace and living/dining room. We didn't even live this high when we were on our first honeymoon!!!!!! I told dad that mirrors might be a bit scary at this point. We're laughing! Have a great week! We love you, m and d

Kim--if Isabella calls, tell her we are still on vacation. She should know that but she called and wanted to know where I was since I hadn't been to L of M in 3 weeks. She and Carla are doing my ministry for me. Maybe she's having a senior moment.

Sunday July 26, 2009

Saturday July 25, 2009

Today we set out to see the Aerospace Museum at the Calgary Airport. It was quite impressive...nice stories on videos throughout the museum and a lot to look at too. The wedding dress on the mannequin was made from a used parachute during WWII as silk was in short supply, so the betrothed used his parachute and later on it was used to make Baptismal dresses for all their children. The streets surrounding the area are all named for famous Canadian Airmen from WWII and their stories are inside both on videos and on display boards. DID you know that Alexander Graham Bell was a pioneer in aviation? We all know about the telephone, but he did an airplane too, right here in Canada. Afterwarads, we had early dinner at A&W and now are on our way to Mass. Glad to see that Pres. Obama retracted his misstatements about the Cambridge policeman. What ever happened to just obeying the policeman when given an order? What a unique concept!!! The priest at the church we attended was giving his last sermon before being transferred after 8 years, so it was quite emotional...he was Russian.

Saturday July 25, 2009