Alpine Self Storage & Motel Spokane

My friend Diane just reminded me that I hadn't finished the story with the jade earrings. Here is a photo of the finished product. I love them. The jade is actually a very pale green color (all jade starts out white and is affected by other minerals as to the colors). The settings are silver and I am very happy with them indeed.

... br> Leaving Saturday for L.A. where I'll meet up with Terry Chamorro and stay at her place Saturday night. Sunday morning we have a 7:45am flight out of LAX which means going to the airport at 5:45am. Ungodly time. We are flying on Mexicana Airlines via Mexico City to Guatemala City.
Not exactly sure yet where we'll meet up with Rose and Jim....probably at LAX before the flight.

Finally got the truck back, all fixed and running beautifully. Decided to get on the road, though it was already 2 pm. Headed south along Flathead Lake through green forests and valleys to I-90, then west, west, west. All uphill, what a climb, to Coeur d'Alene in Idaho, then downhill into Washington State. Spent almost two hours trying to find Riverside State Park in the city of Spokane, finally set up the camper and tried to settle down for the night.

... and to thank the veterans at the fair and finally that we should show our support by singing the “Star Spangled Banner" and with that a recorded version of America’s national anthem shook through the speakers with such tear-jerking emotion that  everyone around us (with exception to those unable to and the Priest family) stood and placed their hands on their hearts and belted along with our 'Whitney Houston” singer.  Now I think it is fair to say you cannot ...

The rest of the week followed the same formula except that we were riding in the adult trek in the morning.  In the afternoon you could ride again or indulge in another activity, shooting, kayaking, archery, fly-fishing.  Ian, Steve, Tim and Robert took a day out and went to Coeur d'Alene golf course (Ian to write on this) and another day left early to go fly-fishing The kids programme was also full with another afternoon on a river boat and swimming in a ...

... rakes for clearing the bunkers! I teamed up with Tim to form a Brits team against Rob and Steve – the Yanks- in a Ryder Cup style four-ball match. Tim and Rob played really well with Steve and I contributing on some holes with the match going down to the last green for me to hole a 6 footer to halve the hole and win the game 1 up. A fantastic game on a gem of a course.

dä 'Glaci** Nationalpark', scho dä feuft park wo mir bsuecht händ. Im unt**schied zu dä and**e, isch dä ab** fascht nöd mit strasse **schlosse, was us min**e sicht zwei grossi vorteil hät. D'natur bliebt unb**ü**t** und äs hät spürbar we***** bsuech**. Diä einzig strass wo dur dä park fü**t isch däfür umso imposant** und gseht us wiä in b**g inegschnitzt. Im gägesatz zu dä pass-strasse bi eus, händs da kei 180 grad ...

... to find others my age on this particular ship during the second week. The adventurous activities were great! We're heading out early again, and will probably be in bed quite early too, as we (especially me) are lacking on sleep! Mum and dad are heading out swimming. I'll download some more pictures.

... A disaster of the worst kind. I sit, depleted, in my tradework swiveling stool. In front of me, I face a worthless hunk of plastic: an internet-less computer. On my right, 650 pages of The Agony and the Ecstasy sit, taunting me. Daring me to unfurl their dusty pages. All is not well in the library. I glare accusingly across the way toward the silver-spoon-in-hand Reference Librarians. And by silver ...

Wow! Montana is just amazing! As we drove around Bozeman, we couldn't help but notice that the mountains were everywhere... I mean everywhere! Bozeman is cool city with a very western feel. There is a old style downtown strip where all the boot stores and saloons are. At that point Denise had here heart set on cowboy boots. Who was I to deny. Densie found a boot place with reasonable prices and a perfect pair of brown boots.