July 20th

On Friday evening, I (Dave) set off with Rob, Timber, and Dave for a Harley ride. They met me in Marysville around 5, and we headed to Leavenworth. We stopped for dinner, then rode to Yakima where we spent the night. On Saturday, we rode along the Columbia River on the Washington side, and then cut down to Mount Hood. We ate lunch at the base of the mountain, then headed west on highway 26 to my parents' house. We stopped for a little over an hour, and then rode to Astoria. We crossed the Astoria bridge and traveled north to Long Beach. We stayed there Saturday night, and on Sunday we headed north on highway 101 along the Hood Canal. We took the Port Townsend ferry to Fort Casey, and rode through Deception Pass. I arrived home Sunday after 6 PM and had traveled over 820 miles.











Monday and Tuesday were spent lying around the house, partly because I came home with a fever on Sunday. On Wednesday we did some grocery shopping and barbequed salmon with Grandpa Rob's recipe. It turned out very nice.

Today, Mommy did some more grocery shopping while Dylan and Daddy stayed home. Daddy had to wait for the Comcast technician to come by with an updated modem. Now, we are about to have our next-door neighbors, Roman and Leanne, come over for dinner. We have only talked with them a few times, but Roman's sister is a dispatcher at SNOPAC which provides service for our department, so we heard about the couple before we ever met them.