March 21 through the 24, 2010

Sunday 21~~~~~Another busy day sight seeing and having fun with my cousin and her husband. We decided to take a picnic lunch and eat where ever we happened to be. We were all out of fresh bread, so we stopped at Safeway Grocery store and we let Kent order our sandwiches at the deli because he always knows the best and watches over the person making the sandwiches like a mother hen( talking to them and getting them to add extra ingredients. Their sandwiches were fantastic (Kent did a great job) and we enjoyed our lunch we packed immensely. We drove to Savory Lake Housing complex where we toured through the houses there starting at $100, 000 up to $550,000. They were completely staged with furniture, dishes and everything, so you got the full picture going through them. We started with the best, working our way down to the $100,000 homes, that was really a disappointment and we agreed we should have worked our way up in price, not down. LOL There was an ice cream social at the camp ground that evening, we finished up our day watching TV. Monday 22~~~~ Today we drove to the Ikea Store, Linda wanted to go shopping there, I wandered around and looked at things with her. We really don't have much room for anything more in either of our rigs. Mel and Linda cooked dinner for us at their place tonight, Mel fried bass and Linda fixed some Swedish meat balls she had bought at Ikea. I baked an apple pie and made coleslaw, Kent bought some yummy soft ice cream to go with the pie. It was another wonderful meal we shared together. We watched "Dancing with the Stars" before heading home. Tuesday 23~~~~We woke up to rain this morning, I heard the wind and the rain all night and I got up at 3 AM to bring in my patio pillows and tablecloth so they didn't blow away or get soaked. I had a Jewelry Class this morning at 9 AM which was a lot of fun learning to make earrings. The teacher had boxes with many compartments full of every shape and size bead you could want. You could make as many pair as you wanted to for only $2 total. I used my inhaler this morning for my cough and asthma before I left and that was a dumb thing to do, I shook so bad, I could hardly string the beads. Everyone was on their second and third pair of earrings and I was still trying to make my first pair. I thought of quitting, but as most of you who know me, know I am not a quitter. I wound up making 3 pair and several of the ladies saw what I made and they copied my design. I hope to make more when I get home, I am so busy on the road you know!!! Ha Wednesday 24~~~~Kent took me to the "Hobby Lobby " store this morning to buy some beads, yes I still want to make some more earrings and maybe a necklace! I even bought a box to put my beads in!! LOL This afternoon we took Mel and Linda to the "Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting" in Phoenix where they have about 70 pieces of Fire apparatus on exhibit, dating from 1725 t0 1969. They had some beautiful fire trucks used only for parades and a lot of other retired restored fire trucks, including the ones they pulled with horses before there were engine trucks. They have the fire hall of fame, where they have pictures and stories of fire fighters who have died in the line of duty from all the states in the United States. I looked up all the fire fighters who died from Oregon and South Dakota. I knew one of the fireman from S.D. We forgot our camera, so we are posting some pictures from our brochure.