All three of the boys have said they would come visit – though only two have made it. Randy brought his family over Memorial weekend last year. This year Tony said he would leave Salt Lake after Jaime’s graduation. He left on the forth. They came by way of California so that they could see the Redwoods. We did not realize that we lived so close. We had suggested to them that they could stop at the Vortex on the way here – but by the time they got there, it was almost time to close. And then the GPS led them some funky way. For they were only forty minutes out but took to hours to get to us.
They chose not to stay with us as their middle
child is allergic to dogs. Though we did
put Bonnie in the kennel on Monday morning, Liz still has allergies. She remembered having been there before and
was quite excited about her stay. Jaime
was not excited. They do tend to miss
one another when they’re apart.
We
played games for a few hours the first day they were with us. They left after seven to check into the hotel
in Roseburg 22 minutes away. Yesterday morning we took a squirrely way to get
to Bandon. Rochelle, my grandkids and I
walked around old town Bandon while Tony, Richard and Jaime went fishing. I led the other four around the pier. The youngest two climbed on statues while the
other two took pictures and after a while Liz whipped out her little camera and
she started taking pictures.
I was hoping that the trolley would be
running, but currently is not because of budget cuts. After we looked at a fish made of garbage we
went back near where we had started and crossed the street over to the Washed
Ashore museum and looked at more sculptures.
They enjoyed it. And then we had
lunch.
Richard had reserved three places on a
charter. Evidently there had been a lot
of turbulence and both Richard and Tony got sick and threw up. But Richard did
manage to catch one fish. Jaime, who hates seafood and fish, caught ten.
Four of the adults were tired. Neither the 18 year old (Jaime) nor those belonging
to Rochelle and Tony understand what tired it.
Tony, who had initially looked to be in worse shape than Richard,
regained his color and ate some food.
Richard had some tea and ate a while after that. He felt awful. At least that’s the impression he gave. It was too cold for the beach. Don’t imagine those that had ridden the
boat even cared. I think the children
had forgotten my mention of it.
We had parted ways and Tony and
Rochelle took the kids back to Roseburg. It is so weird coming home and not
having Bonnie at the door to greet us. I think all three of us went to bed
earlier than usual. Our agenda for to
today is to just take things easy – play games while Tony and Rochelle
take care of their laundry.
