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Friday, April 18, 2025 I have heard of this acapella group, but we have never heard them. Keith saw that they were having an “End of an Era” tour and got tickets. Better late than never. They have been a group for thirty years (although none of them look old enough for that to be […]

Thursday, April 17, 2025 Mike and Kristine enjoyed running and walking on their hills (mountain) while Keith ate cake for breakfast (twice) and I just leisured. I grabbed pictures of their house for the potd as we drove away. It is beautiful on the outside as well. Mike suggested going to a Chinese garden that

Wednesday, April 16, 2025 I wanted to share a few pictures of this beautiful house (with permission). The Mission style is my favorite way of houses. I now know that building so you are looking out at trees like you are in a treehouse is a great idea. Two of the sliding door sections open

Tuesday, April 15, 2025 We knew there were chickens on our hotel property and we saw a red light glowing in a coop looking building last night. Keith went over to check it out this morning and reported “NOT chickens”. It was a baby emu!! He was running fast, with very heavy sounding foot steps.

Monday, April 14, 2025 I read an article some time ago extolling the virtues of Olympic National Park. I tucked away in my brain somewhere that we should go there sometime when we visited Mike and Kristine. Sometime was today! The boys were very busy talking in the front seat, while Kristine and I were

Sunday, April 13, 2025 I woke up in the night and stretched and stretched and was so very appreciative of having a bed instead of a coach seat. I was lying there, enjoying my bunk, enjoying my train, when the train stopped. When it started up again, it was so sudden I slid down the

Saturday, April 12, 2025 Everything we’d read or heard about an Amtrak roomette was that it is small. Our car’s steward, Cherie, looked our two backpacks doubtfully and said we could store them in the luggage area, if needed. We are finding it bigger than expected and a great way to travel. I slept up

Friday, April 11, 2025 Okay, I knew they were, but seeing a bunch of them filmed by the National Geographic people was really cool. We went to a concert/video show by NG a few years ago and it was spectacular. Music and video blew us away. When we saw this opportunity, we had to go.

Thursday, April 10, 2025 We went to see the Collide Theater Dance Company’s production called Broadway Dancin’ tonight. It wasn’t a story show; it was a dancing show, and it was AMAZING. They did a dance number to 28 different songs – most (all?) of them from musical theater. It. was. great. I loved every

Wednesday, April 9, 2025 Carla saw a thing and signed us up to go to the million-crayon giveaway at the Crayola Experience at the Mall of America. We had (free) tickets for anytime today. We went in the afternoon, thinking that it might be quieter in the afternoon. It was. There were two other twosomes