My Life: August 2008

Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Family, Tears, and Music

Grandpa's memorial was filled with love, tears, laughter, and a ton of music. Here are two video clips to show my crazy family.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Jess, Grandma and I left early on Monday morning to get to the cabin. The car was packed to the rim, we couldn't even see out the back window and there was a little space left for me to sit in the back. We were cruising right along and just got through St. Maries. All of a sudden the car starts to shake. I told Jess to pull over. We had a huge flat tire...there was even pieces of the tire on the road. Yikes! It was about 95 degrees out and we had to unpack the car to get the spare tire out. Grandma said she had AAA but I didn't think they would come for about 3 hours to help. Finally, we fixed the tire and now we are hot, sweaty, dirty and hungry. Oh but we had to repack the car again. Ugh!
Once we got to the cabin, Jess and I went down to the lake and tried to sun bathe, but it was so hot so we stayed in the water all day long. :) Then we decided to take a bike ride. For some reason a stupid bug flew in my eye and I grabbed the handle bar as well as the brake. I popped a front wheelie and flew over the handle bars. My left side is cut up and bruised. :(

It gets better, around 8pm a thunder storm came and it was very windy. All of a sudden, the power went out. We decided to go to bed before anything else happens.

Time at the cabin...Priceless!

Sunday, August 10, 2008

Air Force One

My dad's uncle passed away and we had a tribute to his life at the Museum of Flight in Seattle, WA. Bob Ellis was an extraordinary man who helped to develop what the aviation is today. Many of his accomplishments are in the museum on display.

Several of the planes were on display outside of the museum. This was a DC-2 U.S. Air Force plane. Very cool!

Here are some of the other planes that are inside the museum.

I was on the Air Force One plane of where JFK, Johnson, Regan, Nixon and several other presidents used during their term. I think I look like Jackie O!