08/27/11 – Saturday
Today’s activities started with the Car Show in downtown Lewiston. There were a lot of neat cars there. I love the old Mustangs. Then it was off to the Thai place for a delightful lunch with Al, his wife & son. All 3 are neat people. Then we went up to Nez Perce National Historical Park museum. It was small, but it was very interesting, with a lot of artifacts. Including a satin ribbon given to the Nez-Perce chief by Lewis & Clark. The bead work on the outfits is amazing. We joined a talk in process, which turned out to be part of a wedding party. The Elder of Nez-Perce’s granddaughter was marrying a nice Jewish boy. It was an interesting talk and we didn’t know we were crashing the party until the bride & groom stood up and thank friends and family for joining them in their celebration. Brooke & Edward (or Scott) asked everyone to introduce themselves. Which was a little embarrassing. We stopped at Wendt Pottery to get gifts, but when we first drove up, they were closed. Mr. Wendt was still there and opened the shop just for us! How sweet and I got EXACTLY want I wanted!
Next was home for dinner with Mom & Dad and then off to the Guess Who concert. I got to meet Quinn’s wife Stacy and a couple other folks. I got to meet so many people I keep forgetting who I met. And then we went to a bar … don’t ask me the name … and exploding out the front door came MaryAnn Mattson. The bouncer got a kick out of her. It was wonderful to meet her. What a sweetie!
08/28/11 – Sunday.
Today was a trip up to Spokane to have lunch with Byron McLean. Unfortunately we didn’t get to meet his Beloved Tina (she had to work). The food was yummy. My first Korean. And I got to eat Kimchee! It was good. I like cabbage and I like spicy and kimchee is both. Doug took me the long way home and we stopped at Steptoe Butte in Washington State. It was a long day of driving around, but I got to see a ton of the country up there. It’s a beautiful country.
08/29/11 – Monday.
Time to come home. The flight into Lewiston only took a 1/2 hour. Well, with crossing time zones it was. But on the way back it was 2.5 hours. I was lucky with my seat mate on the flight to Salt Lake City was a delightful gentleman named Anthony. He was in town for a wedding. You guessed it, it was Brooke & Scott’s wedding that we crashed on Saturday. Doug & I were the talk of the wedding. Which would have been very interesting, and we would have been invited to join. It was 2 services; a traditional Nez-Perce service and then a traditional Jewish wedding. Both outside in 105 degree weather. I had a 2.5 hour lay over in Salt Lake City. It gave me plenty of time to get something to eat and stretch and relax. I’m now addicted to Starbucks Blueberry Strawberry Yogurt Parfaits.
The next flight was full. And they were asking everyone to check all extra bags. It was going to be one of those sit cramped flights. When I got back to my row it was with 2 gentlemen and one was 6′ 6″. But they moved him back up to the front where “shorty” could have more leg room. I had the aisle seat and my seat mate had the window. He was claustrophobic and preferred the aisle and I preferred the window. So we switched and were both happy and waited for the middle seat person to show up. We ended up being the only row that had only 2 people. Thank you Jesus!!! We were able to “stretch” out a bit and it made the flight SO much more enjoyable! And when I got to Philly … the sexiest man in the world was there to take me home.
I had a delightful trip. Mom & Doug Graham are just wonderful people who opened their home to me. They were wonderful hosts and made me feel like one of the family. Doug was a wonderful tour guide. I got to see a ton of the area. I had a great time and am looking forward to my next trip out there.
