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9/1/2009

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1 September ‘09

After leaving Coeur d’Alene we headed over to Yakima.  Unfortunately for us, but fortunately for our grandkids Lena and Vinnie, they were away on a camping adventure with their dad.  We did have a great visit and dinner with Leslee and the chance to drop off my old bike for Vinnie.  Not being able to park the coach in Leslee’s neighborhood, we pulled into a large parking area next to a major grocery store.  As we were pulling into the parking lot, we had to go under a large group of balloons that were swaying in the wind.  Wellll, we snagged one end and took them with us.  Either fortunately or un-fortunately, we had set a large group free and we had a smaller group of 8 still tied tight to one of our radio antennas.

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Leaving Yakima, we decided to drive Highway 410 to the Seattle area.  This route takes us around the eastern side of Mount Rainier, and at this time of year it’s just an amazing drive. 

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Clear blue skies, rivers running slowly beside the roadway calling for us for a stop for a picnic, hiking trails heading out like a spider web around the base of the foothills, and a couple of small lakes that reflect the magnificent glaciers of Rainier.

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3 hours later and we were settling in for our 2 week stay at the Tall Chief Resort.  Louise had her visit with her doctor and it was decided that she will be going in for a Mohs procedure on the 24th of September.  The Mohs is a procedure that “shaves” a small sample of skin that will be analyzed to see if they have all the bad cells before having to take more.  Let’s hope and pray that it is a short and sweet sample…

I had a chance to kayak the Snoqualmie River with Ric and Drew again.  This time we paddled down river from Fall City for a couple of hours and ended up just south of Carnation.  Now all we have to do is get back out there and complete the rest of that river… 

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Last week I did go shopping again and found myself coming back with a new bicycle.  Now I have no excuses…anyone want to go for a “Peddle”?  Hell between “Paddling and Peddling”, you would think I would be pretty busy.

Louise and I drove into Seattle the other day to see if we could easily get into Lake Union for a day of kayaking and to make it over to Gas Works Park to see a Paper-Mache sculpture called “From Egg to …”. 

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Well when we finished enjoying the sculpture and the park we found the winds had come up too much for us to enjoy a leisure paddle, so we opted to head over to the Fremont district for lunch.  In late 1944, my dad purchased a Richfield “service station” in Fremont (a neighborhood that is just 2 miles north of the downtown Seattle).  I remember spending a lot of my early childhood days down there learning how to get my hands greasy…  In 1962 dad and mom built a new station and set everything in motion for me to join them for a few years.  Today things at the “station” have changed dramatically…  First off, someone, somehow, purchased “the” bronze statue of Stalin and repositioned it on the corner of the stations property. 

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Second, the office and the lube bays have become fast-food restaurants…anyone want a taco???  Well we also had another reason for celebration…on the 20th of August we celebrated our 49th Wedding anniversary with a wonderful dinner at Salty’s.  Salty’s is located across the bay from Seattle and affords a wonderful view of one of the best skylines we’ve encountered in our travels (this may be a little bit of an exaggeration, but true…).

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