(Catching up to the present. This will be old hat for the people on our paper newsletter.)
After we went to Seattle, we headed over to see the cousins in Pullman, Washington. Margaret’s cousin, Fran Powers, and her husband, Art, and son, Lee, live in Pullman and we spent a few days with them. Lee is a little younger than Carlos and we had great fun in Pullman (a small city surrounded by rolling hills and wheat fields).
It was lovely to have Carlos be the older kid for once. Usually he’s following the big kids around, but this time he was the big kid. One nice thing about Pullman was that we were able to take the obligatory trip over to Idaho so that we could say we’ve been to Idaho.
On our way to Pullman we flew into Spokane and spent the morning there. We went to Riverfront Park and went on the 100 year old (!) Carousel and this gondola/skyride thing that took us out over the river rapids (or falls, not sure). While we were hanging there checking out the falls we saw a marmot (or was it a beaver?), easily the highlight of the Spokane trip. (Actually, the falls were spectacular with the spring flood, our glimpse of Idaho was geologically and historically significant, and I am thrilled by any carousel — mtd.)
