The Schenk Family Times: August 2010

Sunday, August 29, 2010

What a Weekend!

We had a big weekend. First, Keith left on Friday to go to Grandma Daphne's funeral on Saturday in Fairfield MT. He flew with Scott, Rod and Grandma Schenk. The funeral went well, Keith gave the opening prayer and was a pallbearer. Then he and his brothers were able to get out of there in time to catch the Saturday afternoon flight home. Grandma Schenk drove back home with Laura and Trey.
Meanwhile, Eric had Tennis practice on Saturday morning and then the Tennis Team car wash. Then we took Carson and drove to Seattle for the Seattle Sounders soccer match Saturday night. We met up with Andre who was just getting out of a Mariners game, and Keith who just got off the airplane. Our timing was perfect, and we all met on a street in Seattle near Qwest field, thanks to cell phones!

We bummed around the waterfront for a couple of hours. After eating at Ivars, we went into an Arcade.
Right away Keith bought tickets for the two of us to ride the Merry go Round. That was a surprise, doesn't really sound like Keith, does it?

Then Eric, Andre and Carson played some arcade games. The air hockey was intense!

They had to keep going back for more quarters to play more games until they won enough tickets to get some fuzzy dice! Actually, even though it was kind of silly, I think they enjoyed the novelty of it all.

We raced back to Qwest field. Meanwhile all around town we had been seeing lots of people wearing the lime green Sounders jerseys. Once the stadium filled up (there were over 30,000 people, we broke the attendance record) you could look out in the crowd and at least HALF the people were in the lime green jerseys!

It was crazy. The fans were awesome. There was a huge group at the end zone that did organized cheers the WHOLE GAME! They shot metal confetti out of cannons when we scored. The funniest part was whenever their goalie kicked off the ball to our team, the crowd would shout "YOU SUUUCK" to the other team. I couldn't tell what they were saying for most of the game, then Eric told me. It made me laugh.

We sat in the section where they have unlimited snacks and drinks for free! Hot dogs, popcorn, pop, peanuts, those large pretzels, nachos,and bottled water.

The view of the Seattle skyline was great. Our team beat the Chicago Fire (sorry Katie) 2-1. Our second goal was a head shot by Freddy Montero. Yeah, cool. It was a really fun night!

Tonight we went to the Wilson's for Brittany's pre-mission Open House. There was a nice big group, and she and her parents all asked about Devin. They seem excited now for Brittany to go to Russia, just a little nervous still, but more ready.

Bishop and Kate Atkinson have been a wonderful influence on the youth of the Young Adult ward. They were so good to Devin, we can't thank them enough.

Then we had seminary open house. Our teachers next year are Jen MacKay, Eric will be in her class, and Melissa Knoblich. After 22 years of early mornings bringing the scriptures to life for hundreds of youth, Sister Richeson is retiring. They gave her a nice book of thank you letters from her students over the years. We'll miss her!

Thursday, August 26, 2010

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Monday, August 23, 2010

Eric's 50 Miler

Fresh legs at the start of the trip! Five days, 50 miles carrying 40 pounds on his back. The drop off point Monday was up near the Mount Baker ski area. The pick up point Friday was up at the Ross Dam Trailhead.

I'm so glad Eric took his camera and took these gorgeous pictures for me, since I don't forsee myself making this trip.

A little snow along the way.

Cool rock face.

More to come!

Thursday, August 19, 2010

Trip to Leavenworth

To celebrate our 28th anniversary we took a little trip east of the mountains. We stayed overnight at this lovely hotel, the Bavarian Lodge. It's right across from the main town square.

It was so beautiful inside and out, lots of neat touches, like these snazzy bedspreads, pillows and a little welcome bear, which is yours to take home for just $13.95.

I love the bathroom light fixtures and the brass accessories on the marble counter. Lots of wood and metal decorative details.

The lobby was warm and inviting, the service was good, and of course, the gorgeous flowers abound in Leavenworth. We even took a dip in the pool. Oh, breakfast was wonderful too.

Don't we look happy?

The town is just cute, and I got a kick out of this red shuttle bus zipping around.

Our first night there we went to a play called "Crazy for You" at an outdoor theater. This is the pre-show. On the phone, the ticket salesman said it was very warm over there at the start of the show, like in the 90's, but to take an extra layer for later when the sun goes down. So I took a jacket and a blanket. I only had flip flops for my feet, however, and Keith just KNEW that wouldn't be enough for me. So he kindly offered up his cowboy boots and some socks.

Need I say, they are about twice as big as my feet? It was great to be warm, but it was a little tricky walking in them, and keeping them on my feet, especially going down stairs. The show was cute, so it was a fun evening.

The next day it was so hot, that after shopping around a bit, we sauntered on down to the Wenatchee River and cooled our tootsies for a bit. Lots of people were floating the river. That looked like a lot of fun! Next time, we'll do that for sure!

It was nice to have so much unscheduled time to just talk and enjoy the warm sunshine.

In the afternoon we decided to cool off with this amazingly wonderful treat, a chocolate gelato filled crepe with rasberry sauce, hazelnuts and whipped cream too, at Pavz Cafe Bisto. Worth every calorie!

Dinner time and we couldn't resist the specialty there, German brats at Munchen Haus! There are lots of specialty mustards and fresh squeezed lemonade. Good eating!

Then Keith, in all his wisdom, thought we ought to look for a pair of shoes that would fit me a little better than the cowboy boots for that nights play, "The Sound of Music". So we walked a bit and found this lovely hiker at a sporting goods store. They'll be great for hiking.

It's a good thing we splurged on the hiking shoes, because the "walk" from the parking lot to this ampitheater was about 1/2 mile uphill.

The show was really wonderful. Great singing, acting, costumes and sets. It was just done very well. I highly recommend it. It was fun to have the "hills come alive" during the show with music.