Fire Roads at the Property

For Labor Day we went over to the property again. Rich and Sena were over there too. We had lots of fun and did the usual stuff that we do at the property. Eric did get a chance to go up on some of the fire roads across the other side of the river. Here are some pictures from their little adventure.

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Chris & Toliver's Wedding Reception

https://photos.app.goo.gl/Z4K66aqayza59ppi8

Sunflowers

The sunflowers turned out pretty good this year.
They weren't as good as the monster sunflower that we had last year,
but they were very pretty.

The Ocean

Eric and I made our annual trip out to Ocean Shores with my family. We did not have great luck with the weather this year, but if you aren't prepared to battle some wind and rain then you shouldn't visit the Washington Coast. We did the usual stuff. Hang out on the beach, eat food, play botchee ball, have a campfire, and of course every year some one has to get buried. This year Jordan joined Ryan, and it was a Thelma & Louis theme. For the first couple of nights we stayed in the hotel room with Wes' and all of his buddies. Despite all the fun with the boys with the burping and farting, the stinkiest and dirtiest bathroom I have ever seen, and watching them play a video games into the middle of the night, we decided that for Saturday night maybe Eric and I should get a room of our own. Although I must say it was very interesting to watch 4 high school boys play a game for hours that involved walking around looking for a girl, courting her and then buying her a wedding ring. The more wives you had the more points you got. Pretty weird if you ask me. Anyways, Eric and I stopped in at the Casino to play a couple hands of blackjack, some all you can eat buffet, and to rent a room for Saturday night. I didn't do so well at the blackjack, but we did eat them out of crab. Eric however had a reasonable good night at blackjack. He had a lot of money down on the table and somehow convinced to pit boss to give us a room upgrade. So when we showed up Saturday to check into our room we were quite surprised to find out that they had upgraded us to the Grand Suite. We thought that was pretty cool, but had no idea what to expect. We were walking down the hallway toward our room to find that our door was different than all of the rest of them. Instead of a plain door it was a very nice carved door. We opened the door and it was a long hallway. We walked in and the hallway turned to the left. On the left hand side was a huge bathroom with beautiful tile, a jacuzzi tub. On the right there was the master bedroom with a large king sized bed and a TV. At the end of the hallway it opened into a huge living room. There were 6 couches and chairs, a fireplace, a huge flat screen high definition TV, and two sliding doors that opened up to a huge balcony. It was amazing and beautifully decorated with Indian art. I looked on their website and I couldn't even find the price for that room. The Studio suite which is not even as nice is $549 a night. So this room had to be more. We only payed $200. If you go to the following website you can check out the room tours of the Grand Suite. The decorating is a little different in the picture and the pictures show a dinner table rather than what we had which was more couches and a huge TV, but you can see how large it is. All in all it was a pretty fun trip to the ocean.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/CJ29HTNwJcF79M8w8

Neihaus Day & the Blue Angels

Wes and I went to the M's game on Dave Neihaus Day and happened to catch part of the Blue Angels performance during Sea Fair. We certainly didn't get to see the majority of the show and they were kind of far away. But I have never been down there for the show and it was pretty cool when they buzzed the stadium.

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