To Mount Vernon

 Jeanne has been visiting from Ely, MN.  We have been having a lot of fun with the Art Show, eating out, puzzle making, and yaking.  We decided that one fun thing would be to take the train to visit Debbie & Joe in Mount Vernon.  So Rebecca, Nathan, George, Jeanne, and I headed down to the Amtrak Station.  Rebecca left us there and took the car home. .

 We had a very nice train ride

Nathan

Jeanne and me

Where are my glasses??  Just some guy sitting in the lounge car.

We hung out in the lounge car.  We played 10, 9, 8,  No Thanks and 99.

We went through all kinds of weather.

Double Rainbow.  

Margarita time

Mount Vernon Amtrak station

We got to Mount Vernon about 15 min late.  Debbie was there to meet us.

Full moon.  We won't stay up to see the lunar eclipse.  

Debbie had made a delicious Moroccan stew and salad.  

Phil jumped on my lap but he did not stay long.

Monday and Home

We had a nice breakfast and were ready to leave the hotel at 8 am to head home.  Pam agreed to take us to the airport.  That was nice.    We got to the airport in plenty of time.  I had TSA precheck but Debbie didn't  We both went to our separate lines but they both fed to the same scanner so she ended out being 2 people behind me.  We had looked up what food options were at the Hollywood Burbank Airport since we would be buying our lunch there.  We thought we could get a sandwich at Sammish and there was a Starbucks, so we thought we would be ok.

Not quite what we were expecting.  

Our flight left on time at 11:13 am.  The flight was pretty uneventful.  George met us when we got to Portland.  We were home around 2 pm.  

 

Sunday

 We had a nice breakfast at the hotel.  Pam and Jamie picked us up at 9:15 am to go to the arboretum.

There is snow on 'them there' hills.  

It was fun walking.  We did a big loop.  It ended out being about 3 miles. 

A penny a kumquat??

Still some roses in the rose garden

Lots of peacocks.

On our way to lunch we drove by an area that was hit by the fire. What devastation!!

We went to Porto's for lunch.  By then it was raining.  No photos of our food this time. I had cauliflower broccoli soup.  By the time lunch was over it had stopped raining.  We had a 1 pm reservation at an indoor pickleball court.  This time we kept score.  It is a very confusing scoring system. 

It was a nice place and well organized.  We ended playing 3 games in our 1 hour.  I don't think that I improved much.  But we had fun.

We headed back to Jamie and Pam's place.  We had time to relax. We started a game of 10, 9, 8 but didn't finish.  We headed over to Sharon and Michael's place for dinner about 4:30 pm.  Pam placed an order at Cardamom Montrose Indian cuisine for a 5:15 pm pick-up. 

Michael helping Ella with a fun magnet construction toy.

They made a helicopter.

Pam helping Nicole with a different magnet toy.

Jamie, Debbie, and I went to go pick up the food.  

Nicole

Sharon got the food all organized.  It was delicious.   

We played a game of 10, 9, 8 while Ella and Nicole did their pre bedtime activities. Sharon joined us.   

Pam and Jamie dropped us off at the hotel.  We needed to get organized for returning home tomorrow.