Prescott, AZ

On Friday October 19th, two friends from work, Lori & Nahid (Jolah) took a "ROAD TRIP". We drove to Prescott, AZ to visit our good friend, Janet, who retired a year ago. The drive is about 7 hours one way. Above is a place we stopped for lunch - this was about the entire town; we ate in the cafe and some men were cleaning their guns in the adjacent bar - how fast can we eat???!?!?!?!?

Janet's husband, Tom, was so kind to give us the gift of a girls weekend - so he left to enjoy a weekend in Laughlin. Janet showed us around the town of Prescott - an old western town. The first afternoon we spent walking up Whiskey Row (know for having about 47 bars on the street at one time). We shopped a little and had a drink at The Palace; it had some wonderful old pictures and artifacts and apparently, Wyatt Earp used to hang out at this bar!!!!!

Friday evening, Nahid cooked us an authenic Persion dinner - YUM! And we talked until midnight (way past my bedtime).
On Saturday, Lori & Nahid took a hike, while Janet & I worked on some card making items. Then we headed back into town and shopped a little and had lunch. The time flew by and Sunday morning came all too soon, so we headed home :-( Next trip to AZ???????

I count my friends as special blessings.

Glacier, Seattle, & Tahoe

On July 19th Rick & I had Starbucks in Oceanside, lunch at Seatac and dinner in Glacier National Park - crazy, huh? We flew in to Kalispell, Mt. and rented a car and drove up to meet Rick's sister, Kathy, and Dave in Mini Glacier. When I was young I had camped at Glacier and Rick had never been there before, so two days really wasn't long enough, but it had been a few years since we'd seen Kathy & Dave so it was really special. Kathy & Dave were our private tour guides to the park....so we saw some pretty amazing sites. During the evenings we introduced Kathy & Dave to one of our favorite board games, "Ticket to Ride" and I think we got them hooked too!!!!

We saw a mountain goat and her baby at the side of the road and a moose in the lake.

We flew from Kalispell to Seattle on July 28th and spent the night with Becky & Sean and the boys.....another quick visit.....but we love every visit - no matter how short :-)

Ethan is soooo cute in his hat!!! I have some fun reading books on the computer with Micah & Ethan while Lucas is at school.

Finally for our originally planned trip.....Lake Tahoe

We spent two days in Tahoe at a timeshare visit we'd earned while in Kauai last year. This one is in South Lake Tahoe. One of the things we decided to do while there was to take a lunch cruise on the lake. It was beautiful!! The ride lasted about 2 hours. The boat was smaller boat, which meant there weren't a lot of people on the cruise, so we got to know some of the other passengers, which was really nice.

The larger paddle boat would have been fun but not as intimite.

The flight loads were pretty full....so we decided to drive home rather than fly. Neither or us had ever been down 395, so that just added to our adventure!!

May 2008

We flew up to Seattle to watch Lucas play t-ball on his special needs team....it was a lot of fun to watch! It just happened to be Mother's Day weekend that worked for us to fly up. It was wonderful to spend Mother's Day with Becky & Ali - I wish Kelly could have been there too. The weather was a drizzly and cold, but the game was still on.

We also got to spend some time at the Children's Discovery Museum again! This time we were able to go up onto the roof. There was a dinosaur "dig", music to make, and some cool play equipment too!!

December 2007

Christmas in Washington

Corban Micah

We visited the Space Needle and Santa was there too!

Lucas Ethan

"What did Santa bring?" We even had a white Christmas!

We flew up to Washington on the 23rd and Kelly & Jeremy, Corban, and Dominic flew up on the 24th. It was a very special treat it is for us to be together. Becky & Sean hosted Christmas for us all - everything was wonderful.

• we visited the Space Needle and Pike's Market
• attended their Christmas Eve service
• celebrated Christmas together
• played at the park and in the snow
• explored a Children's Discovery Museum
• and ate lots of yummy food!!
  

December 2007

We didn't really have any plans for my birthday, which was totally fine because we'd been gone so much lately. In fact, even on Friday, our plan was to stay home and relax! Then Rick called on his way home from work on Friday evening and asked if I wanted to get away..........sounds good. So I called our timeshare to see if there was availability in Cabo and checked with the airlines to see if we could list a flight and sure enough everything was a go and we headed for Cabo for the weekend - crazy, huh? We had an amazing time and plan to go back for a longer stay!!! Our timeshare has a restaurant onsite so we didn't have to worry about meals either and it's located right on the beach at San Jose del Cabo. Definitely a birthday I won't forget!