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Veteran's Day

Posted by Suzanne at Thursday, November 12, 2009 comments (0)

On Veteran's Day I decided to look at some of my military pictures. It seems I didn't take a lot of them, but here are a few that document some of my time! In honor of the season, here's one flying Santa into the base for Christmas in Germany. In actuality it was a pretty crappy weather day--so I kinda hovered him in!

Next is a picture when I was Platoon Leader in Ft Rucker Alabama. This is most of the flight company.

FLY ARMY!

Here is one from my Company Change of Command. I was Company Commander of Charlie Company. We taught both Basic and Advanced Combat Skills to future aviators.

And, not to forget Korea, I spent some time with the Neutral Nations Committe (comprised of Swiss, Swedish and Polish Officers). Here I am near the DMZ.

Drag races in Vegas

Posted by Suzanne at Tuesday, November 10, 2009 comments (0)

We had the chance to spend Halloween weekend in Vegas. Randy won a trip through Napa that included dinner, accomodations and hospitality tickets to the Drag Races. travis was even racing the Bullring Saturday night before the other races. Rachel and Travis ended up staying at the Orleans where we were so it was really nice.

Gale and Rachel enjoying their breakfast at the hotel.

Here's a video Ron racing the Napa car--wish it had sound. It's amazing how you can feel 8000 hp right in the middle of your chest!

Fishin!

Posted by Suzanne at Monday, August 31, 2009 comments (0)

The Taylors came over this weekend to go fishing. Randy and Jim went out Friday afternoon to check the gear and came back with two. Saturday morning they limited at 4 salmon each. They also manged to catch a few crab Luc and I finished some tiling in the Kitchen. Sunday we decided to fish on the way home. Now this is what I call fishing! Even the dogs enjoyed their first fishing trip.

And we put up the beautiful sign that

Becca gave Randy for his birthday--very nice!

Last weekend

Posted by Suzanne at Wednesday, August 26, 2009 comments (0)

Last weekend-- what a weekend it was! Randy and I went over to our friends Mike and Jodi's house to go to a couple of concerts. Friday it was Jackson Browne--I love going to Chateau Ste. Michelle for concerts--everything is so laid back. (pardon the Iphone video!)

The concert was great and the next day we set off for a 15 mile bike ride through North Bend. It was Railroad days and we actually wound up pedaling through town right before the parade. How funny was that. (Faz in the right hand picture, Alex and Jodi in the pic below)

Anyway, after the ride we went back to the house to get ready for a "blind IPA tasting" at the Beveridge Place Pub in West Seattle. I liked most of them, but my top three did not win any prizes. After the tasting we went to Mashiko Sushi restaurant. What a great place. We picked the Chef's choice option and 16 courses later....... Who knew that a roll with catfish, sweet potatoes, avocado wrapped in a soy bean wrap would be good! I would definitely go again.

Sunday we got up to go on a hike near North Bend--Called Rattlesnake something. Faz joined us again along with Mike and Jodi's niece Alex. What a pretty hike--and we gained some elevation!
(Randy, Mike, Ursa and Darby in the pic)

Finally we ended the jam packed weekend with the Elvis Costello concert--picnicked at the winery