More Summer Fun

Once again it's been forever since I wrote on my blog. A lot has happened since then, but let me go back.... to the rest of our summer trip. On the way back from Utah, mom, dad, sister Sherrie and I drove back to Wenatchee via Spokane. We used to live there when I was in high school and still have awesome friends we keep in touch with.


We were able to visit the Grover family, it was great because they were having their family reunion at Deer Lake. When we lived in Spokane we built a lake cabin and hadn't quite finished it when we moved to Hawaii. Grovers used to come out to the lake with us so we have lots of fond memories of swimming, boating, waterskiing and even beaching the boat (mom remembers that one well!!!). Years later Carol was looking for a lake cabin and bought our "old" cabin. It was so fun to be back at the lake where we have so many fond memories. Mom and dad used to go out dancing on Friday nights with Lou and Carol and I was the babysitter of the 5 kids in exchange for my free tap dance lessons from Carol. It's funny to look at these beautiful/handsome grown up kids and believe that I was their babysitter.


We also spent time with our life long friends John and Melissa Ward and their grandson Triston. We stayed with them, but was really disappointed that Triston was at camp for the week. While in Spokane we went down to Riverside Park and crossed the "swinging" bridge which isn't even swinging anymore since it has been rebuilt. Lot's of fun memories at the park too!

The Borg family was one of our closest family friends when living in Spokane -- us three girls of course thought the family was great because they had a boy the same age of each of us, plus a couple others thrown in and a few sisters too. It was a fun family to have Thanksgiving dinners with, dance festivals fun, and just hanging out. We were able to have lunch with Greg and his wife Sue one afternoon. Then we went over to Susan's house to visit with her, Kim and his daughter Maddy. I just love middle school kids - I had a great time visiting with Maddy and of course Kim and Susan too.

We also had a great visit with Rene & Curt Miller. Rene and I have been friends since 6th grade and have kept in contact all these years. They just remodeled their basement and it is awesome!!