Thursday Thursday

THURSDAY

After arising at 9pm and finally getting going... Matt & Greg took Matt's car down to Richie Cole's to diagnose some minor problems he was having - Richie has a computer diagnose machine that is BIG BUCKS and does swell for scoping out mechanical problems.

When they returned, they started to clean out the truck. Greg had gotten lattes for everybody and once the guys were sufficient to be left alone without adult supervision, Kelsey & I were off riding our new bikes.

We had quite a long ride. Which did us both a lot of good. A short romp of doing this everyday and I will be in tip-top condition. I am discovering muscles that I did not know I had. This - -after Kelsey introducing me to Yoga the other day. Oh my. (how that guy on the video puts his head down between his legs and kisses the floor, I will never know...)

After our extensive exercise on the bikes, we returned to find the guys were conversing with our friend Bruce. Bruce left shortly thereafter and then we wrapped up the cleaning and ventured to Spoky-Jo.

We stopped at Pfaltzgraff to see about their 50% sale; then on to Costco for gasoline as our alert light had come on in mid-drive; then Kelsey complained that Mom was hungry (really, I wasn't - Kelsey just uses ME as an excuse...) so we stopped at Rocky Rococco's Pizza in downtown. Matt was driving by this time as Greg decided to take it easy on his foot. After a delicious lunch with extras to take home we continued on to the BX at Fairchild Air Force Base. Kelsey had called their friend Kegley and we met him while we were getting passes to enter the base.

After shopping at the base - Kelsey got me a new camera & digital picture frame for Mother's Day; and then over to the commissary for crab legs & assorted groceries - we got Snow Cones in the parking lot.

The kids went to visit with the Kegleys - Rachel & Mike - while we ran to Starbucks & Wally-World. A brand new Wally-World. It was fun to see one that was THAT clean!

While wasting time, we wandered around looking for the Kegley's home with their borrowed TomTom...getting lost-er by the minute. Finally ready to toss the TomTom out the WindowWindow we discovered where they lived on our own.

The Kegleys live in a very nice rancher in a sweet subdivision not 5 minutes from Base. Since they both are serving in the AirForce - it makes it very pleasant for them to live close to their operations.

We picked the kids up and then ventured into the blackest storm clouds in North Idaho that I have ever seen. Matt was still driving and did a great job of forging through this horrible weather.

After arriving home and unpacking all the groceries, Matt & Greg went to the shop for a while Kelsey uploaded photos & I tore into my new camera - a Nikon CoolPix P80.

Whoopee! A new working camera again!

This pic is from the other day when Greg & Matt put together Matt's new grill - NO they did NOT rotisserie a watermelon! Silly!