Pancakes and Tide Pools

The morning started with blueberry pancakes made by Don.  Paul Z. took care of the sausage and bacon.  We had all kinds of toppings to go with the pancakes.  What a feast!!

gorgeous weather

our new best friend

At 10:30 am we went down to the beach for a tide pool tour. That was fun.

sea star

sea anenome

Cheryl

Then I took a walk out to the lighthouse on my way back.

I think that is Mt Baker

We then congregated at the Reveille cafe at the Commons for lunch.  We pretty much took over the place.

We rented a room for this evening, but to start if off we all gathered at 3 pm to talk about logistics.  Meal construction was the challenge.  Different dishes had been prepared in different houses.  Our house made the vegetable curry and the raita.  David was very organized with meal planning and shopping.  The chefs went to his house to pick up the menu and the ingredients for whatever was their assigned dish.  They had help with the cooking.

Elaine was our master chef.  Emmy made the raita and I just chopped.

At 7 pm everyone brought their dishes to the bandmasters house for dinner.  Like a giant potluck.  What a spread.  It was all so delicious.  We had pullao, chicken curry, vegetable curry, potato curry, pulao, plain rice, puris, dahl, fusion curry, rusam and fresh mangos from Florida.  Keith had brought a suitcase full of mangos. 

waiting for left-overs

After dinner we headed back up to the Commons to our rented room.  We saw a bunch of slides of old times and some of what was happening in people's lives after leaving Kodai.  David had brought a projector and Paul had his computer.  Then we sang songs.  

Mike & David had their guitars.  

The weather was perfect today.  Slightly warmer than yesterday.  I don't think that it quite hit 70 degrees.  As we were walking back after the sing-a-long, the coyotes were howling.  Maybe they did not like our singing.   

People attending

Emmy Ageros from Oregon

Cam & Jennifer Barbour from Alberta, Canada

Verle* & Lois Bell from Michigan

Jewel Birdwell from Tennessee

Ted* & Alla Hornoi-Centerwall from Florida

Vivian Childs from Oregon

Shanta Coleman-Derr* (on the right) & Amanda Pemley from Florida

Karen* & Grahame Deane from New South Wales, Australia

Cheryl Dosey from Florida

Don Fletcher from New Jersey

David Hayward from British Columbia, Canada

Paul Heusinkveld from Michigan

Keith Johnson from Florida

Elaine Murray from Nova Scotia, Canada

Lou Riggs from DC

Ted* & Janet Scudder from Texas

Mike* & Shannon Spiller from Washington

Barbara* & George Walker from Oregon

Paul* Zorn & Janet Petri from Minnesota

Welcome Class of 68!! XUA

We left our house about 10 am and went to pick up Emmy. We had lunch at Jeremy's Table in Chahalis on our way.  As we were driving we kept noticing a shimmy with the car.  We would stop periodically to try to figure out what was going on.

Finally when we were about 10 minutes away from Fort Worden we stopped at a U-Haul place and checked again.  We saw a huge gash in one of the tires. Looked like someone had taken a bite out of it.  The woman at the U-Haul place helped us change the tire - no charge.

 We were on our way, but we missed being at Fort Worden by 4 pm.  Luckily, Mike Spiller was on top of that.  He had check in and gotten the keys. 

Shanta and Amanda had picked up Vivian.  Cam & Jennifer, Mike & Shannon, Paul Heusinkveld, Paul Zorn & Janet, Verle & Lois, Ted & Alla Hornoi-Centerwall, and Karen & Graham all drove in on their own from various directions.  Lou picked up Jewel at the airport.  He had rented a car.  Laura Servid dropped Don off.

We did not really have a dinner plan so we drove into Port Townsend and ate at some different restaurants.  George and I went with the group that went to Bayview.  Great view.  We could watch the ferry come and go.  David had a van and he met Elaine, Cheryl, Ted Scudder & Janet and Keith at SeaTac. They were the last to arrive.  29 people, 19 of our class.

We had a few mix-ups with the reservations but everything worked out.  Everyone had a place.  We had 3 duplexes and 1 house, called the bandmasters house.  It was wheelchair accessible.  That house was our gathering place to chat and to eat.  Things were a little confusing for awhile.  I had to go over to the check in office a few times, but we got things straightened out.   We had a chance to sit around and visit.  That was nice.  Several of the local people brought card tables and chairs and David brought a slew of camp chairs.  That was perfect.

Jewel

Cam with the wine

Blurry Paul (maybe it was the wine - his or mine) & Janet