The salmon dinner last night was a treat although Doug decided to bake instead of grill when time came to cook. I was disappointed since I was looking forward to grilled salmon. Claudia fixed a tasty veggie sauté with red peppers, squash, onions, etc. There wasn’t much to watch on TV so we visited. Doug and Bill snuck off at one point to see what the Mariners were doing against the Angels. The news wasn’t good when they returned. The mothers eventually made their way to bed, as did the boys, while Claudia and I sat up and talked until after midnight.
I was cold when I woke around 6:30 this morning. I got up and put on some socks and my sweatshirt, went back to bed and read for an hour. Down in the kitchen I successfully fixed a pot of coffee. Once Bill and Trudy stirred we began packing up. Doug made some French toast to tide us over until we got to Dawn’s where we planned to take her and Reign out for lunch.
We took pictures, bid farewell and headed down the mountain arriving at Dawn’s about 12:30. Reign has grown a bunch since we last saw her and is a real cutie pie. Of course, all g’parents say that about their g’kids! Since our car was full to the brim, we took two cars to Red Robin for lunch. Trudy and Reign rode with Bill and I rode with Dawn. Trudy treated us all to lunch and it was quite good.
When we got back Trudy wanted to take a nap, and Reign wanted us to watch the DVD of her performance in “Jungle Book.” The PTA at her school hired the Missoula Children’s Theatre and they provided a week-long residency "starring" local students in a full-scale musical. Reign was one part of Kaa, the snake. She was real cute, and every time you saw her she had a huge smile on her face.
Trudy reappeared from her nap in time to see some of Reign’s performance. Reign seemed fascinated by my big one pound skein of yarn and wanted to hold it (squeeze it, stick her fingers in it, and whatever else!). She watched me knit and told me that she crocheted. I asked her to show me and it seems a friend has taught her to finger knit. No, I had never heard of it either! But she was quite good with it and she did that while I knit. Then she disappeared into the bathroom and came back to show me her hair. She had some little plastic gadget with which she did different things to her hair. It was a “tipsy” something or other. Anyway, she started playing with my hair and that occupied another hour or more.
Bill had decided he would take us to Mardini’s in Snohomish for dinner. Doug and Claudia have known the owner since they visited his first restaurant. Zouhair Mardini came from Beirut and opened his first restaurant in Snohomish in 1984. Now his son is working there. Bill ordered the Seafood Fettuccini, Trudy and Dawn had the Chicken Wellington - Char-broiled chicken breast stuffed with fresh crab, onions, and mushrooms, baked in puff pastry then covered with hollandaise sauce, I had Rack of Lamb, and Reign had one of Clint’s favorites, fish and chips.
After dinner, Reign wanted to go to the ice cream shop. Turns out it was no longer in business. Bill wanted to walk to the waterfront park. Trudy didn’t think she should walk with her hip problem so we settled her in the car and walked a couple of blocks down the street to the park overlooking the river. Reign wanted to go to the lower walk but Bill and Dawn didn’t want to do that so “Granny Carol” took Reign and off we went. She looked at the back of one old dilapidated looking building and wanted to know what that was. I could only speculate that it used to be an apartment or office building from the looks of it. Then I commented about the train I heard on the other side of the river. When I mentioned it again Reign blithely said, “Well, actually, that is a factory.” “Oh,” I replied. “It sure SOUNDS like a train.” Turns out it was a lumber mill – Seattle Snohomish Mill Company, I think.
It finally came time to bid Dawn and Reign farewell and take Trudy to her airport hotel for the night. We parked in a tiny spot in front of the place and as Bill came from behind the car, he tripped over the curb and went down. Fortunately he sorta landed on Trudy’s suitcase instead of splatting on the pavement and assured us he wasn’t injured. When we got to the front desk, I gave them Trudy’s name and she gave them her confirmation number. At first they couldn’t find the reservation and when they did, her room was in the back of the hotel which would have been difficult for her getting back to the front of the hotel in the morning with her hip problem. They were able to switch her to a room one floor off the lobby so we got her settled and in and bid her farewell and hit the road for home.
We got here about 10:30 and were both happy to see our humble abode! No more riding in the uncomfortable back seat of the car, no more clinging to the side of the bed to keep from sinking into the center (Bill said he had hoped I wasn’t also having that problem!), and no more defective coffee pots. Yippeee dooo…. It is late and I’m past ready to hit my lovely FLAT bed.
All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to sunshine and light, which always come to those who sincerely believe that their dreams will come true. - Woodrow Wilson
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