Awake: 6:55am Temp 45 sleep 6+08 morn off-on rain overnight @ Woodland, WA.
Early morning, Ray & I Skyped for close to an hr.
Mid afternoon, we motored to Vancouver & visited with Monica, Maggie, Donavan, & their parents, Rochelle & Dean. Monica was bowling, & Dean was still @ work when we arrived, but around 5:00pm, both returned home.
Monica is our goddaughter & Rochelle is my buddy from way back in the mid 60's so we try to keep in touch. Rochelle lost her father, Don, my good friend, in a freak accident when she was age (6).
Dean & Rochelle should be proud; their kids are smart & well behaved, &, I might add, good looking. We always have such a fun time during our visits & this day was no exception. Monica is more or less teaching herself to play the clarinet & gave us a short performance. She also likes to draw & began a portrait of Kathy. Maggie has a real interest in photography & took many pictures of all of us. Donavan is sort of interested in electronics, at least in taking electronic things apart & they're all into swimming. Monica also loves to read, esp. historical fiction.
We sat around & gabbed with the kids & parents for a good (3) hrs; taking pictures of each other, playing heads or tails with coins & getting to know each other again. Their dog, Choco, entertained us with his continual ball retrieval; actually we tired of the game before he did. Choco likes to have his picture taken; just look @ that smile!
K & I had a bowl of turkey soup before we left, but around 6:00pm, Rochelle brought out salad & several kinds of pizza for all of us & her timing couldn't have been better. We didn't want to leave because we were having so much fun....but we knew tomorrow the kids were going to a swim meet in Portland & they needed some good sleep + Dean had to go to work in the early morning.
Back @ our M.H., we watched the movie: "Murder" with Herbert Marshall, Norah Baring, Phyllis Konstam, and Edward Chapman. Good early Hitchcock casts Marshall as actor who serves on jury at murder trial and believes accused woman innocent. 1930. The sound track on this film was a little difficult to understand; otherwise, it was a good story.
Lights out: 12:19am.
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