While soaking up the cool breezes at Lake Tahoe, I happened to go to mapquest to see how far away my sister’s house was from the Lake….. I was surprised to find that it was closer than my own home by more than 100 miles. Yes, this is my sister of My Sister’s Jar fame. My mind started scheming. I mentioned to my vacationing, beard-growing husband that it would be cool to “run up to Washington” to see my sister’s family. We figured out that if Rick took off two more days we could vacation for another WEEK! (Gotta love the four-day work week!)
Long story short, Rick called in and they were able to get another pilot to cover his flights… so we drove to Vancouver, WA on Monday. YEAH! All of the people in the Northwest should be thanking us for coming and bringing the nice Phoenix weather with us! Seriously, yesterday was their first day of summer! They are all scorching at 82 degrees, but we are loving it. It was 25 degrees hotter today at home. Makes me want to stay here until October.
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To get the most of this non-Arizona weather, we attempted a hike to the Camas Lily Fields above Lakamas Lake yesterday. I say attempted because among our two families, there was not one successful map reading soul. A picture was even taken of the trail map so that I could eventually show the routes that we hiked and re-hiked to find the lily fields. No one told us that they only bloom the week of Mother’s Day. Sheesh. I did capture a photo of every little blinkin’ bloom on the entire trail (partly to make my necessary heart-rate-in-the-danger-zone stops seem of the photo taking nature… and not the totally out-of-shape nature)… much to my speedy marching husband’s dismay. He kept saying, “You know we’re not going to develop all these pictures, right?” Whatever. I decided, while kneeling on the wet path getting the perfect picture of a purple and orange wildflower, that a Wildflowers of Washington (WOW) scrapbook was indeed in my future. I might even give it to Rick for Christmas. Plus, I have 75 free prints on snapfish right now.
I would be showing you some of the photos, but I did not bring the cord for my camera… and my techy brother-in-law doesn’t have the photo card capability on his treasured macs. I didn’t even have the photo card in the camera when we started this adventure on June 9th. I bought a card at Walmart in Nevada… but it didn’t work. I don’t really understand all the little letters printed on those tiny cards. Eventually, I purchased the correct card and it is FULL of pictures that I wish I could share. But no.
My Sister's Jar 