Kim and I went home to my parents this weekend to visit them and Kim’s old college roommate, Lauren, who had just gotten married to a guy named Kevin from Newman Lake near Spokane. We got in late Friday night and chatted with my parents well past their bed time. My Dad was up late studying for his college class. The next day I helped my dad a bit with moving some stuff out of Nathan’s room. We burned an old, nasty, green sofa that we’ve had for more than 20 years. Then we played euchre out on the deck in the nice weather.
Since Lauran and Kevin had gotten married in Connecticut where Lauren is from, they had another reception in Newman Lake for Kevin’s family who couldn’t make it to the wedding. They had a huge tent and Longhorn Barbeque catered. Kim and Lauren were very happy to see each other after more than 4 years and had plenty to talk about. It turned out that I had connections to a few of the people at the party through Newport families and the Nsidsen church camp. Lauren and Kevin were flying back east the next day, all the way to Germany since Kevin has a few more years in the military, so Kim and I left around 10pm.
Sunday we went to Grandma’s and we looked at some of the old pictures that I’ve been scanning from my parents’ film. Afterwards we went to dinner at the Olive Garden. Kim and I drove back from there and ran into Danny’s mom and his girlfriend Kari at a gas station in Ellensburg. Small world.