A Summer of Adventures
This past summer was full of adventures. It seemed like a whirlwind. Ellen went to FBLA nationals in Atlanta. That was exciting for her, and for Gary and I in a different way. Worrying about your child is always exciting...not always the excitement that you want. In late June Ellen and I packed up and headed for California to visit family. It's too long of a story for a quick blog post, but here's the gist. We flew to Portland where Dan, my brother, picked us up and we drove down to Redwood Valley in California and camped for the weekend with the family down there. That was fun. From there, Dan drove back up home and Ellen and I stayed a week with Leslie. While we were there we filled every day with some sort of adventure. Here is Ellen standing in front of a redwood tree and its burl on the skywalk at the Dickerson Park Zoo in Eureka, CA. We went with a friend, Doris Foss, who was (still is) the on site manager of the se...