Delivery Confirmed

Tuesday afternoon we headed to LaPine to deliver Rocco (one of our kitties) to my Mom's house - his Grammy loves him a LOT and is so happy to have him as her new roommate.

The trip was interesting to say the least. Rocco is an anxious little fellow; he cried for about the first hour and a half then of course he got comfortable and we had to make a pit stop. When Josh entered the men's room he heard a little voice coming from a stall "who is it?" the boy said, Josh paused; the little boy repeated himself and Josh said "it's just me" (makes me wonder if parents still advise their children NOT to talk to strangers). After about 15 seconds the little boy said "so . . . what are you doing?" "I'm peeing" Josh replied then the little boy enthusiastically announced "Oh okay! I'm pooping!"

We met Mom in Redmond around 6:00 to check out an Audi she was interested in buying; Josh and mom took it for a test drive and decided it was a good deal. Mom entertained a couple counter offers from sellers before deciding it just wasn't right yet. So we decided to return Mom's rental car; while we waiting outside the rental car return Josh received a text from the seller accepting Mom's second offer, YAY! Mom bought a cute (and loud) '87 Audi 4000CS.

Wednesday while Mom was at work Josh and I got to play tourist in Bend. Pioneer Park is the most interesting park, it's on the Deschutes River, a small portion of the river used to be an outdoor swimming pools. The river water was heated by shavings from a saw mill and returned to the river pool, admission was a nickel! The picture here is in Pioneer Park, Josh enjoyed antagonizing the Canadian geese. Downtown we got snubbed at a glass art gallery, visited the local ceramic and mosaic shop, had some icky coffee, nibbled on a chocolate covered oreo and walked a LOT!

. . . It's been about four days since I started this blog and I suppose now since it's not fresh in my mind that it wasn't as exciting of a trip as it was on Wednesday and Thursday.

We did have quite a treacherous trip home. We had the chains on for about 50 miles from Suttle Lake to about twenty miles east of Detroit.