A Great Side Trip for Me

I flew to Buffalo and left Bud and Matey in the heat. They coped while I had a wonderful time visiting with friends and family. I took no pictures, so the only ones I have are for the last weekend, when our daughter, Jamie, her husband, Sean, and our grandson, Adler, were there. Jamie sent me these.

My friend Erin had us all over the Saturday Jamie got there. Her friend Vera obliged us with a four generation picture. Front row is my sister Joan, my mom and me. Back row is Sean, Jamie and Adler.

We informally celebrated three birthdays, my Mom turned 103 on May 13, Adler turned 13 on June 2 and Joan will be 80 on June 21. This is Adler, Joan and me with the cake I bought for Adler.

No visit to my mom’s is complete without playing games. This is Adler, me, my mom and Joan playing Lucky Seven, which we just call the dice game.

On Monday Sean, Jamie, Adler and I went on the Whirlpool Jet Boat out of Lewiston. The boat takes you upstream in the Niagara River (downstream of Niagara Falls) from the smooth water at Lewiston to the whirlpool and the class five rapids just downstream from it. I am the dorky one with only my face showing. However, they said we would get soaked, and although the air temperature was close to 80 degrees, the river water was just 60 degrees, so I wasn’t fooling around.

Here we are, ready to start our trip. The first four rows get the wettest, They all wanted to be there but by the time we got in the boat there was only room for two more. Adler took one and persuaded me to take the other. We’re on the left in the third row. Sean and Jamie are also on the left, but in the second row from the back.

The folks in front got doused more often and more thoroughly,

but we all got very, very wet! You can see my blue hood and Adler’s brown hair in this picture. The top of my head was the only dry spot on me at the end of the trip.

We could use that dousing now. Adler and I flew back to Las Vega and are with Bud and Matey just over the state line in Arizona on the north side of Mesquite, Nevada. We bought a small room air conditioner to add to our trailer air conditioner. It was 107 degrees here, with both air conditioners going we were able to keep it below 85 inside.