Lake Chelan Vacation

Dad and I went with Wagars to thier condo on Lake Chelan last week end. Since it was Conf week end we didn't miss any responsibilites. We had a great time relaxing, eating and playing. The church is one mile from their condo so we watched conf there. This first picture is at "blueberries" fruit stand and resturant. We had the BEST breakfast there. This was a huge chair at an animal farm we stopped at. Dad's feet were dangling! Made him look like the incredible shrinking man!

Tagged!

This is my 4th file 4th picture from the McGinnis Reunion this summer. What fun we had! I tag Jillian,Kendall, Chauntel and Bailey- It's okay if you've been tagged already!

Misc

Some of the cute pictures on my computer! Bro. Eric Moses is our new Bishop! Clay Dickman is his first counslor as well as our home teacher who is new in the ward, Bro Gurtzman.

Dad is going to sell his motorcycle so he has more money to build a new house. I am the cautious one in the family. What if we don't sell our house and what if the market goes down and we can't sell the new house for retirement? Daycare is a problem if we move into a apt. So it's pretty iffy right now.

I was wondering who's coming for Thanksgiving and Christmas?

Pre reunion Ride

Before the Reunion Ken called and ask me to meet him Wenatchee. He had rented a Harley Davidson and had three friends that were riding with him. One of them owned a cabin (house) in Chelan. They invited us up for lunch. The cabin is in the back ground. Also notice that grandpa McGinnis is on the back on Ken bike and Diane is on the back of Jerry's bike. They got off in Chelan were Grandpa's car was and drove it back to Duval.
From Chelan we drove up and around on the North Cascade Highway. It is some of the most beautiful country I have ever seen.
The next day Ken and I took a ferry across the sound and rode to the farthest point west in Washington, Cape Flattery. ON the way back we stopped at this lake.

On Thursday Ken, Steve and I took your wives on a ride to Deception Pass. So mom put her leather on for the ride. Hot mama. I guess I should turned the picture before I downloaded it. Sorry. Do you like the leather dew rag??
Here is a picture of us on Woodby Island. Steve took the picture.

Kristy, mom and I on the bridge at Decieption pass. It was fun riding with the family. Hope to do it again.

A Trip to Bend Oregon

Mom and I made a trip to Bend Oregon with our friends the Roses. On our way we passed this tree that was full of pairs of tennis shoes. We took a picture because we knew no one would believe us.
In Redmond Oregon we rent Harley Davidson motorcycles for 24 hours and rode around Bend, Sisters and the Mountains around Bend. Mom like the seat. She told to find a bike with that kind of seat. We stop at this beautiful falls. I don't remember the name of it, however it was beautiful and a nice cool break from the bikes.
The next day we drove up to Mt. Bachlor. It was quite cold in the morning and beautiful. We enjoyed the ride. At about 1 pm we turn the bikes in and drove to Sister where we visited the little shops.
Friday mornng we did a session in the Portland temple and that night we went to Phantom of the Opera.
It was a great way to end our summer before we start back to school.

Last week Sandra and I drove to Spokane to visit my sister, Linda and her husban Carl. They just sold their home on the South side of Spokane and move into an apartment about a week or so ago. They are having a home out in the valley near the Idaho boarder. If I remember correctly in Greenacres. Linda drove us out to see it and Cory and Luann met us there with their three children.

It will be a very nice home when they get it finished. Sometime in November. I loved the view there. Mountain all around, in very direction.

Linda drove by the house mom and dad was living in when I was born. So we stop and took some picture of it. We live there a little over a year, before moving to Moses Lake.

This is my cousin Marilyn. She was a just a little younger than me. It seems like Marilyn and Joann were the two I played with the most. Marilyn was working in her shop. We also stop and visited Jackie. It was her 64th birthday. Sorry we forgot to take any pictures.
Another picture of the house. It was a great day I really enjoyed seeing Linda and all my relatives. When we got back home I filled up the gas tank. It only took 8 gallons of gas to fill the car up and we had travel 309 miles. I will help with the math, we got 38.6 miles to the gallon. We used the air conditioner going and back.

Bailey was here and took some pictures of mom and I on the motorcycle over looking the Tri-cities. This one is of my hot bike babe. Mom and I plan to take a ride on Wednesday with the Roses and Browns to Dayton for breakfast (Biscuits and Gravey). After breakfast the girls will visit the small shops in and the guys will take a short ride up into the mountains.
This is a picture of the us with our leathers.

This is actually a pretty good picture. Mom sure is beautiful.

The next two pictures are just to show you how much I can suck in when I am told to.

I gain alot of weight the past two weeks. Time for a real diet.

Route 66

School was out on June 12th at 11:30. All the teachers from the elementary and middle school stand wave goodbye to the students as the buses pull out. It is a big deal. After that the middle school teacher meet for a very short meeting. I was the first one in my car and on my way home by 11:55. I got home changed clothes and had a quick bite to eat.

Bro. Crook and I were on are way. We drove to Twin Fall, Idaho, where spent the night.

We then drove from Twin Falls to Henderson Nev. It was a long hot ride. My credit card stop working. It was a security element. When the card is being used out of state they stop authoritization. Sandy had to call them and let them know I was on a trip.

We hit some rode construction. That is when it gets really hot, just standing around on the pavement.

Friday evening we caught up with Greg Rose. He had made reservations at a motel in Henderson. The next morning we got up early to beat the heat and rode across Hover Dam. Bro. Crook had to pull over and have his trailor check. As you can see from the next picture the water is pretty low (about 60 to 70 feet).

From Hoover dam we started route 66 at Kingsman.

From Kingsman we backtracked to Oatman Az. It is an old mining town. They let the donkey go when they stopped mining. They now roam the streets of Oatman.

When stayed in Flagstaff Az. and Sunday morning visited the Grand Canyon. The went back to Flagstaff for church.

From Flagstaff we went through Winona, Winslow, and then on to Holbrook.

We stayed at the Wigwam motel.

We were then off to Albuquerque, New Mexico. This is the route 66 dinner were we had lunch.

We made as far as Santa Fe New Mexico. That night on the Weather Channel they were predicting severe weather, Hail, high winds, rain and possible tornados. So we left route 66 and head back for Utah. We went through Four Corners. Here I am standing in four state at the same time. Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona.

Before we left New Mexico we found Madaris where they filmed "Wild Hogs. This is Maggie Dinner.

My brother in law Ken McGinnis caught up with us and rode with us for a few days.

Before leaving Colorado we stopped at Mesa Verde. We were able to climb up to one of the dwellings. It was awesome.

The went to three parks in Utah. The first was Archs National Park.

Next Bryces National Park. I liked it the most. OOPS I just deleted the picture.

We saw these in Zions National Park.

How does this happened??????