Sunday, Oct 11

We had a liesuely morning.  After we were all breakfasted, showered and mostly packed up we went on a 2 mile neighborhood walk.

A big glass green house

a shared garage note the colors

back at the house

After the walk we finished packing and then headed out to lunch.  We went to lunch at Anthony's at Point Defiance.  Wow what a view and what delicious meal.  It was a challenge to get there but thanks to GPS we made it.  

I had a shrimp and cheddar melt

We could see Mt Ranier.

Aftr lunch we left Sharon and headed home.  We got home about 4:30 pm.  Thank you Joyce for driving.  Sharon went back to her sister's place.  What a nice weekend

Dinner at Gino's

What a fabulous dinner.  We drove out to a close restaurant, Gino's Bistro. Wine, bruschette, a variety of entrees, wine and salted caramel gelato for dessert. It was a very leisurely dinner. We all left with happy mouths and full stomaches.

Saturday, Oct 10

What a day!! We left the house about 9 am.  The drive to the art museum was very, very stressful because of torrential rains.  Traffic was a mess. I AM SO GLAD THAT I WAS NOT DRIVING.  Joyce and the Garmin did a great job getting us to the art museum.  We spent a couple of hours with the Impressionist show.   Then we drove to the Chihuly Garden and Glass Museum.  There was one room that we closing at 2 pm so we went there first then went to lunch at the Collection Café and then back to see the rest of the exhibit.  When we left the we dropped Sharon off to visit her dad and then we went to a fun coffee shop to sit and wait and hour.  It  was a fun coffee shop.  Kris and I had a glass of wine and Joyce had an Italian soda.  Then home for a short rest break. 

Friday events

Sharon had already gone to Tacoma on Thursday.  Joyce, Kris and I drove up Friday at 1 pm.  Joyce drove.  We are treating this like a beach weekend.  We are staying at Sharon's sister`s place.  We got here about 4 pm.  What a fabulous place.  We are right on the Puget Sound.  What a view.  We relaxed a bit with some munchies and wine.  Then we looked at Joyce's Sicily pictures on my tiny tablet.  We had hoped to be able to hook up to the TV but no such luck. 

We came up with a dinner plan.  The is an Indian restaurant just up the street.  Hilltop Indian Restaurant.  They serve Indian food and pizza.  We called in an order and Joyce and I went to pick it up.  It sure was yummy. 

Friday, Oct 9

This is a test. I am trying to blog using my new tablet but it may not work.  I am in Tacoma with some friends for the weekend. We will go to the Seattle Art Museum and the Chihuly Garden and Glass. This is the view from the porch. What a place!

Tuesday and home

It is hard to believe that my week in Minnesota is at an end.  

Some of Jeanne's flowers

We went in for morning coffee

women at one table

men at another

Then Jeanne and I drove to Virginia for lunch.  It was on the way to the airport

Good lunch

We did some errands and then Jeanne dropped me off at the airport.  I had TSA PreCheck but in Duluth it does not make much difference.  I just did not have to take off my shoes.  This really bothered the people in front of me.  One of them had a bottle of some prescription medication, the bottle was larger than 3 oz.  It took quite a while to straighten this out.  The flight from Duluth to Minneapolis was uncomfortable. The AC was not working.  Luckily it was only a half hour flight.  It was hot.  I had about an hour in MSP.  Then the flight to Portland was uneventful.  George and Rebecca met me. We went out for Thai food for dinner and then home.  It was a great trip from start to finish.  

Monday

Monday we went in for morning coffee with the church group and did some errands.  One fun thing we did was to go to the bear center.  I had been there a while ago but they have added to it.  It was fun.  They have done a very nice job.

Ted on the scale before breakfast.  He is over 600 pounds.

A very nice enclosure for the bears.  They have 4 of them.

This is Honey.  We did not see the other two.

Then we went home for lunch.  The afternoon was relaxing.  Jeanne and I had a chance to look at our plans for our next trip in October.  That was fun.  Then it was time to fix dinner.  They had invited some friends to come over.  Cheese and crackers then sweet-sour meatballs with rice, melon, beans/carrots and blueberry pie/ice cream for dessert.  Of course there was wine.  Very nice dinner.  We relaxed in front of the TV for a little while before crashing for the evening.