This last holiday weekend we went to a wedding up in Husky Country also know as the State of Washington. Our daughter was one of the bridesmaids. The bride was a friend of our daughters from grade school and middle school here in Medford. At that age they were "best friends" and agreed that when they grew up and got married they would be in each others weddings. The bride's family moved from Medford just as the two girls were starting high school; but, they kept in touch and a few month's ago our daughter got a call from her friend who said she was getting married up in Lacey Washington (near Olympia) and had not forgotten their pledge from grade school. Our daughter who now lives in Washington D.C. flew out for the wedding and we drove up from Medford, Oregon to go to the wedding and to see our daughter. Since she lives on the East Coast we don't get to see her that often. On Thursday we drove through a Northwest rain storm to Lacey and checked into a nice motel. Our daughter's flight out of D.C. was delayed because of weather back there and so she had to spend the night in Minneapolis. On Friday we took a tour of the Washington State Capitol building in Olympia and met my wife's sister, who works in Olympia, for lunch. We met up with our daughter after lunch and said hello before she was off for her duties as a brides maid. We all met for dinner at a pizza restaurant for the rehearsal dinner.We had a nice conversation with the bride's parents who we were friends with when they lived in Medford. It was fun catching up with each others lives. Saturday was the wedding and from there we went to the reception.It was very sweet to see the bride and her father do a dance together at the reception. That night we went with our daughter to a movie ("Music and Lyrics" with Hugh Grant and Drew Barrymore). On Sunday we all drove to Seattle and the three of us played tourist for a day. We went to Pikes Market Place and walked down the water front to where the Seattle Sea Hawks play football. After checking into a downtown hotel we took a ride on the monorail to the Seattle Center were the 1962 Worlds Fair was located (I was there in 1962!) and had a nice dinner at an Italian restaurant. We did some shopping and I found two John Wayne movie posters for Fort Apache and Rio Grande. I also found the DVD to the TV series from 1963, "Hootenanny". On Monday, Presidents Day, we said good by to our daughter who was flying back to D.C. and drove down I-5 back to Medford. We just got word that our daughter got home safely to her home in Washington DC. Her airplane did get stuck in the snow when it landed in Washington DC. They had to get a tractor to pull it out of the snow on the runway access area when the pilot took a wrong turn.It was very good to see our daughter again.
