Do the Palouse!

Woo hoo! 48 fun-filled hours packed with family, friends, food, football, four-wheeling and fun!!! We headed out after work on Friday to start our weekend in the Palouse...stopping a few times along the way.

Just hitting the road...Rich is amped up to drive!

Dinner stop in Yakima...
mmmmm, Miner's burgers!

We continued our trip Friday night...ending up in Kennewick to visit Rich's mom at work...and then back to the house to visit with both his dad and mom! We were exhausted from the trip and headed to bed early...

Saturday morning we got up before dawn and met Rich's mom at breakfast and filled our bellies before we ended up in Pullman for the football game. We arrived early...so we got to tour the campus, the new CUB and a view above the stadium.

Here's the view from our vantage point!

After our tour of campus, we met up with Nancy to do a little pre-game tailgating and get ready for the football game!

We were quick on the trigger and got a picture
of the new "Cougar-tron"...

After the game, we hung out in Pullman a little longer...had a snack and some cocktails and then headed up to Rosalia to meet up with Allen (Rich's 1st roommate from WSU) and Emmy for dinner. Allen and his family graciously hosted Rich and I for the night and we just hung out and visited.

Rich and Allen got up EARLY Sunday morning to go hunting...they saw a few pheasants and more ducks...but were not successful. Rich even got to help out Allen with his tractor. I swear, after a weekend like this, I wasn't sure Rich would want to come home to the westside.

Rich and Allen got back...and by this time I was up! Allen made us a delicious breakfast and there was even some "different" meats in the sausage...it was good.

Here's Reed and Angelina...
coming home from church.
(Allen and Emmy's little ones)!

Here's Allen with Reed...what a proud papa!

Rich being goofy...waiting for breakfast!

After breakfast, we headed outside and Allen showed Rich how to work the four-wheelers!

Here are the boys in all their glory!

Ride on Richie!

Yeah, I got to go for a ride with Rich too!

We took the four-wheeler out for about an hour and saw 3 pheasants and about 6 ducks! Rich got a duck...but the pheasants got away! I was "blown" away by how loud the shotgun was!

Here's Rich scouting for the pheasant.

Ready, aim, fire!

We headed home...on our 5 hour journey and ended up at my Grandma's 82nd birthday celebration. It was a fun, but exhausting weekend!

What's next on tap?!?!