In 14 days we leave for the Davenport, WA Quadrant. I am looking forward to getting away. Doing better, keeping myself busy with some books from my mom and staying active with the kids. They hate "the hill." Once we get back from our trip I aim to get back motivated and finish all the things I started in May. If I really want something I have to put the work in to making it come about.
July 14-19
Andrew did well on his first flight. The pilots were great and everyone was very friendly. For the first few nights Denyce and I bunked together and Steve and Andrew shared the basement. That wouldn't last long. Andrew couldn't stand Steve's snoring so I wound up bunking with Andrew and Steve went to his old room.
Thursday evening we had dinner with Steve's Aunt Doris and Uncle Ed at the Red Rooster restaurant in Reardan.
We went to Mondovi on Friday and visited Loren's family and Les' family. The kids enjoyed the horses, calves, chickens, goats, dogs and rabbits.
On Saturday we enjoyed a rainy Pioneer Days Parade. Andrew enjoyed the park and playing on the merry-go-round. That evening we went to Andy Casper's mom's home for an early celebration of his 50th. Steve got to visit with Ruthy, Tom, Randy, Rusty, Mike and of course Andy. We missed David and Rich being in attendance, especially since this would have been their 30th High School Reunion. Life sometimes causes you to change the priorities and you can't really expect people to pick up where you left off, especially if it was years later.
On Sunday we attended an all area church service on the grounds of the court house...only in a small town would it not be a big deal. Try doing that in CA and there would be lawsuits filed before the new day got going. The four of us took a trip to Seven Bays and drove around the Old Fort. It was amazing to see how much things had changed since I was there in '94.
On Monday we drove to the Trinidad Farms and saw the wheat up close and personal. The kids loved the grasshoppers. We spent a leisurely last evening at home.
Tuesday we made a dash over to Steve school EWU, where he got a t-shirt, then dashed to the airport. Of course in our rushing we learned that Delta had delayed our flight by an hour and there could be a chance of missing our connection to San Diego. After using our $24 vouchers and boarding our flight, we made it to Salt Lake City an hour after schedule. Unfortunately, Steve was busy with phone calls and I was watching the bags, that while the kids were seated and waiting we left "baby" Andrew's lovey of 4 years behind. He will be greatly missed and we will be heartsick about it for a while. We did make our connection to San Diego...of course it was the same plane we had left Spokane it. If I had known we might have just stayed on the plane and we might still have baby with us. Andrew is taking it well, has some sad moments but he does have others loveys to keep him occupied. We made it back to San Diego at 6:20 and I was glad we did laundry the day before. After some adjustment we seem to be settling in. It was a great trip and I hope we can have regular vacations from now on.
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