Washington

I'm back, did you miss me? Been busy, busy our daughter Maureen and grandsons Ryan and Cody arrived Sat. June 27th. We have been on the go 24/ 7. We spent Monday in Seattle had fun at the public market did see the fish throwing so neat, the amount of seafood is just fantastic. The king crabs, prawns, fish, unbelievable the many varieties of seafood so fun to look at. The space needle is just like the pictures and movie that Elvis starred, at the World Fairs back in the 60's. We went to the top for a 360 degree view, awesome the weather was so perfect you could see Mt Rainier, and of course Canada. Lots of walking and the city is hilly, big hills. People here walk, run, and picnic in parks. They truly take advantage of there perfect weather.

We took a 12 hour round trip drive to Fork WA. and La Push beach Tuesday. The town has been made famous by a movie called Twilight the tourist flocks from all parts of the country to get there picture taken in front of the towns sign. Our daughter and boys patiently waited there turn. I am told by many parents that this is now bigger than Harry Porter. We made our way to the expensive twilight store we the kids made their purchase.

Found a nice place to have lunch and raced back to Port Angeles to catch the last ferry of the day [8:30]. Wednesday the boys and Maureen went to the movies Transformer and did some mall shopping and the boys played video games.

Maureen and I had a mom and daughter day we saw My Sister Keeper. Great movie bring lots of tissue. Maureen has such a soft heart she just bawled the whole movie. She and I did some shopping had a good lunch. We came home to relive Pa Pa he had a his time with the boys. We all drove to Vancouver Canada Friday had lunch did some sightseeing.Another long day. The drive is not bad it's just the waiting to get through customs.We had no problems but 911 has changed so much freedom. We do need to be safe. Saturday being the July 4th we watched the parade went to the beach and watched the fireworks. We were able to see the fireworks from the park we are at. We had a light jacket on the evenings are chilly here. I know watching fireworks with jackets go figure. Pretty cool huh get it. This has been such a great week sad to have Maureen go back to Texas but she does have to work. The boys will be with us till July 24th when Harry will fly them back to Texas.

July the 10th we meet up with some Texas friend they have a son in the Navy and the ship returns to port, and we will get to watch them sail in. OMG if you have not witness returning ships you must put that on your bucket list. We had the pleasure of watching our daughter Lisa's ship return to their home port Norfolk VA. Standing at the docks anxiously waiting for the ship to comes into view. Just a beautiful sight to see. All sailors standing on the deck at attention. Now that's AMERICAN PRIDE.

I do have pictures to share.

One last thing to the Rayford gang looking forward to CO.

Be safe, love to all

juju