55 Years

Vera is giving the birds some seed before we headed out on a little road trip to celebrate our fifty fifth anniversary.

Our first stop was at the Pancake House for breakfast.  Of course I had the french toast with cinnamon apples on it again.  I was planning ahead today and brought our 12 volt cooler along for the left overs.

Our plan was to follow the Old Pacific Highway to La Center.  This is the first spot we found just South of Kalama with a view of the Columbia that had room to pull over and park.

After we got to La Center we decided to give cousin Richard a call and see if we could visit.  We had never been to his place so he gave us directions and I put the address in the phone's mapping app.  It took us on all kinds of roads on the way to Yacolt.

Some parts of the drive were just like going through a park, is was a very pretty and interesting trip.

We made it to Richard's place without any problems.  This is his fire pit, he worried about kids falling into it so he added the chimney to it and has a screen to set around it.

We had a really nice time sitting around the fire talking with him.

Richard mentioned he had been sorting old pictures of his folk's and got them out  so we could see them.  This is Richard while he was in the Air Force Police.

I had never seen this picture of Aunt Addie when she graduated from nursing school.  I remember that she used to work in Tumwater at the state hospital.

This is our Aunt Eve, the youngest one of my Dad's family.

Uncle Duke lived in Castle Rock and worked for Weyerhaeuser so I saw a lot of him as I grew up.

This is my Uncle Fran's daughter Darlene.

I am still working in Photoshop on the picture of Grandpa and Grandma Piercy but I decided this was good enough for here.

After we left Richard's we went to Yacolt because neither of us could remember being there before.  As we came into town I was thinking that is the strangest tree I have ever seen.  As we got closer I realized it was a cell tower, a disguised one.

If you look close you can see the antenna's at the top of the tower.  After we left Yacolt we drove down to Battle Ground, had a small salad and headed home.  We took a short break at home before going to the Verizon store to upgrade my phone which has been doing some strange things lately.

Then we went to dinner at the Castaway's and took turns using the new phone to take pictures of each other.  It was a nice relaxing day and we had a good time.  Boy has fifty five years went by in a hurry.