VISIT TO SPOKANE, WA.

We traveled up to Spokane, WA to see Jeff and Tammy and Rob and Eva and their kids for the first week of our vacation.

Here you see a picture if Eva and our newest grandson, Luke Robert who is about six weeks old. We stayed with Rob and Eva and saw Jeff and Tammy every day. They have had a lot of snow in Spokane and roofs were wrecked. Jeff had a leak in his roof that trickled down through the walls and ruined his new wood flooring. their place was torn up. Rob had new roof gutters destroyed by ice dams. it was cold and all the evergreens were frosted as the fog froze every day.

We had a nice dinner at Rob's. Eva whose mother is Austrian, made goulash and Spaetzle. It was fun to watch them make this and it was excellent. But it was like being in a Top Chef TV program because it was also like can you top this. The next night we had dinner at Jeff's and Tammy did salmon and lamb roast and then Jeff walked in with two large New England lobsters and fresh Dungess crab. That was really great. Mom had gone with Eva looking at oriental rugs and antique furniture and I went with Tammy to Cabelos with the kids.

The next day, I spent a day in Rob's opthamology clinic getting my eyes checked and getting refracted. We took the gang to Chucky Cheese and I survived that. Saturday Rob and I did some shooting and Mom baby sat while Jeff and Tammy worked in his private psychiatric practice.
We went to northern Idaho and went to a hunters restaurant.

I showed Eva how to make New York Bagels and Rob did this amazing brunch with fresh Bagels, lox, capers, onions, scrambled eggs, thin sliced steak and of course Pate de Fois Gras (sp?) on toasted sourdough bread.

It was great fun to visit Jeff and Rob. We went to Julius's baptism which is the subject of the next post.
Jeff is starting a private pyschiatric practice and Tammy helps in the office like Mom helped me. Rob is in a very busy clinci that drawa from all over. the place was packed with patients as I sat there.

We got back in time to greet four inches of snow in our driveway and in time for Douglas's Eagle court of honor.

Alles Gute, Dad and Mom