Here are some pictures of Jaylin Easter pictures. Hope you all enjoy them as much as we did:) We love you all and cant wait to see you at the reunion this year:)
If you can't tell from the picture, MaKayla is beating her grandparents playing Mexican Train. I said to mom that our grandkids really enjoy beating us when playing games ... her reply "It's not me they enjoy beating, they want to beat grandpa." Wonder why?
We had a great time hiking, golfing and playing games. MaKayla rolled a 50' putt in on the last hole in front of an audience standing on the next tee.
We enjoyed the Easter Pageant at the Mesa Temple ... here's MaKayla with one of the Centurion guards. He tried to arrest her but we escaped.
We arrived 2 hours early for the pageant so we could get good seats and found almost all of the good seats already taken ... however, MaKayla found these three good ones that were very close to the production. I kept moaning how long we were going to have to wait for the pageant to start. Mom finally said "cool it bucko". So I did!
A good friend of mine gave us incredible seats to a Diamondback game ... we got there an hour before the game started ... mom said "we're going to have to wait an hour for the game to start" I wanted to say cool it bucko but I didn't...
We have been telling the kids how pretty downtown Seattle is in the evening when viewed from the water. We were going to go back that way when we came back from spring break but the ferry schedule’s worked against us. On Friday night I had arranged to pick up some snowshoes (more on that later this week) that I had found on craigslist near where the ferry launches from. We decided to pony up $11.55 to take the boat ride rather than drive back. Here are some pictures and comments.
We left Bremerton at dusk. Very peaceful.
Chas has never seen Titanic so we thought this unposed picture was very funny.
It was coooold but the kids had fun out in the open air on the ferry. I was very sick so only came out to take the occasional picture.
This is what you see from the Ferry at night when you come in. To the left you see the space needle, dead ahead is downtown Seattle and to the right is the port of Seattle. In the background you can see Safeco Field as well. The thing that kills me is that most of the people riding the ferry are bored out of their minds. I guess riding the ferry eventually becomes as boring as riding the bus.
I read online yesterday that our old home in the Atlanta area is no longer in a drought. I have been keeping track of the lake as water preservation is an issue that interests me as well as having a lot of friends who still depend on that lake for drinking water, to fill their pools and water their lawns.
Below is a graph of the lake level on Lake Lanier north of Atlanta. I wonder if the news medial will pounce on this story like they did when the lake was low? Somehow I doubt it. When the lake got to a record low it was national news. It was never reported that the lake had gone low like this several times in the past 50 years. Lakes all across the southeast were in the same condition but none of those were mentioned. This is just another example of taking what you hear on TV or the newspaper with a very large grain of salt. News outlets produce the news to sell ads and make money, not to report the whole truth. The storey de jour is now what color iPod the queen received from our president! No time for the news outlets to go back and admit they might have been wrong about this ‘crisis’.
Anyhow I’m glad that the pools will be full when we visit GA this summer to show off Lucy!
