Friday, May 28, 2010

Spokane /Yakima 4 Memorial Day

Day I: Good but WET drive until we reached Thorp. From there on it was a mixed bag of WX. Rain Sun Ect. Arrived at Chez Frey around 2pm with lots of sun.

Day II: Headed out to Diamond Lake around 11am. Hit rain during the drive but it was dry at the lake, But cold!! Did some munching and headed back into town.

Day III: Today we will be heading west. Stopping of at Sowder Farms and Smoke House for some Memorial daySowderFarms 5-30-2010 4-38-29 PM ribs. Looking forward to that!! Made it to Sowder Farms for an Excellent BBQ. It was great to see Rich and his growing family. And the BBQ. Ribs “What can I say” SowderFarms 5-30-2010 7-01-58 After dinner we headed out to finish up our journey. Made it home around 9:30pm. Fat Dumb and Happy!

Monday, May 17, 2010

Behymer Wedding

Jackie Behymer Wedding Maui Hawaii

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Day 1: Early start!! Sterling Our chauffer picked us up at 0430. After a checkin line and the TSA line as we approached the gate our name was called for boarding. So far pretty smooth. I am typing this from aboard UA flt 35 now bound for OGG (Maui). Got a couple of fine seats in economy plus along with an extra seat. Just now setteling in for our 4:33 flt across the Pacific. The rest of the creatures are starting to stir now and get settled in. As always when I fly I get lots of thoughts racing true my mind. You know “Miss this, Miss that &  DON’T miss this” So far other than wishing I was younger and able to relive my flying career. The don’t miss this or that wins hands down. Oh Oh! here comes the bevrage cart. Coffee time!! Life is good, Good seats, Great seat partner and smoothe skys.

Picked up our rental car fired up the cell phone GPS and made it to the other side of the island. I was surprised on just how short the drive was. After checking into our digs We contacted the Behymers who are in the same building one floor down and a big direct ocean facing condo. Met Jermaine (the future Mr. Jackie Behymer), Michael (Jeri lees brother) and his partner Felix. Oh yes Michael “Rock Star” Behymer was there too.

Day II: image Good Morning. This time change thing is going to take a  little getting use to. I love never missing a sunrise but waiting for sunrise is  whole different thing. We have a 3 hr time change here. I know it’s only three hrs but it’s the wrong way. Anyway it’s almost 4 in the morning here and I am fat dumb and happy slurpping away on my first hot cup of coffee. The dig’s are nice and I am excited on what the day has in store for us. After the normal preperation events of the morning and what everyone was doing. We were off to Twin Falls on the west side of the island. It was an easy 25min hike into the falls capped off by the last 30yds hiking thru a warm stream to the pond below the falls. Sort of though on the feet “Yes my tough as nails feet” but worth the extra effort. I only wish I had brought my bathing suit for a dip under the falls. On the way home from the falls we stopped to checkout some surfers and one amazing kite surfer. I could not believe the ground (H2O) he covered. He must have been OGG 5-20-2010 11-30-07 PMclipping along at more than 30mph across one rough ocean. I think If I could even ride that thing I would run out of gas in a Min or two if I were lucky and still be hurting today.  In the evening we attended a little get together hosted by Jer and Jeri Lee at the Marriott.

Day III: Friday May 21st 2010 The Main Event. The Wedding! Once again up early for sunrise and Wedding 5-21-2010 8-27-30 PM getting my hart started with a hot cup of coffee. The wedding is scheduled for 5pm. Who knows what the rest of the day will bring. Sort of thinking of driving up to the north end of the island.Took a drive to Lahaina this afternoon. The main interesting thing is how this side of the island reminds me of Mexico. Or to put it a little more descriptive on one side you have the beautiful blue Pacific and on the other side of the road it looks like eastern Washington including cactus. Who would have thunk it! Seeing cactus in Hawaii. Around 4pm we headed south to Makena Beach for the BIG DOING’s The Steel Behymer wedding. A nice Hawaiian wedding cermony was enjoyed by all. Followed by a outdoor reception. As normal I ran out of gas due to my nasty habit of getting up the sun. All in all it was a success.  Once again waiting for sunrise with hot coffee in hand

Day IV: We drove up to Lahaina again today and visited our Diamond Lake friends. Got home early and enjoyed a last supper with the Behymer clan. Jerry made up some great spagitti and meat balls.

Day V: .Packing up for our ride home. Got the morning walk on the beach taken care of. Had a few good bye’s in with the Behymer family. And now we are packing up our stuff and getting ready to head to drop off the rental car and go check in for flt UA 36 OGG/SFO. Hopefully we will be able to get on the last UA bird out of SFO this evening. The Loads Look a little tight at the moment. Worse case we will hang at the Red Roof Inn in SFO and try to get home in the morning.after.

Day VI:We are home!! Made the last bird out of SFO Got a little dicey towards the end. Got the last two seats. Strling Bentsen was good enough to pick us up at the airport around 0130. Made it home around 2am. All in All it was a GREAT trip even with the air travel miseries Ticket lines, TSA, and Waiting to see if you will be chosen for the leftover seats. Being the left over seats are the only unique pain for us the price makes it more than worth it.

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