More Wedding Sept. 2, 2006

Found the 2nd set of wedding pix. Here is the bride getting ready . Hayley Nichol about to be Mooney. 

Getting our Timmies, Sept. 6, 2006

Here's Ross and the Americans getting a Timmie. A promised answer to a question posed earlier-Tim Hortons' is a Canadian Dunkin Donut. 

Sunset over Wiltse Lake, Sept 5, 2006

Sunsets over the lake are a daily ritual at the farm, and they are always spectacular. You can sorta see Ross's cannon, bottom left, and the flagpole, and the corner of the porch. 

Nnie at the farm, Sept. 5, 2006

Here's our beloved Nnie, who now belongs to Andy (we borrowed her back) along side the barn at Pook's . The wedding tent is gone, Ernesto is gone, all of the company is gone, and we resumed our spot barnside. We were behind the barn during the wedding festivities. 

Day After Hayley's Wedding Sept 3, 2006

pook, mother of the bride and Murray, father of the groom, enjoying muffins and coffee brunch for 40+. We dismantled the tent, the lights, the tulle, the chairs, all of the dishes, glasses in short work, well sorta short work. Ernesto is here in earnest this day!! 

Hayley's wedding, September 3, 2006

It's the day after, and we are all recovering from a fabulous day. Here's the ceremonial cut of the wedding cake top by the bride and groom and the 2 old folks who are celebrating the weekend of their 38th anniversary. We had just served 15 for dinner. Luckily, there was more cake left. 

Behind the scenes, Hayley's wedding

Ever been to a wedding where all the attendees broke into spontaneous applause for the fabulous meal when the chef joined the party?? D'Arcy, in the blue, is Hayley's brother and Assistant Chef, Sean is Chef in one of Ottawa's best restaurants, and friend to the Nichol brood. The 2 ladies are Pook's friends who offered to help and who saved the day when Sean's servers came down with the chicken pox!! Pook's kitchen was scene to most of the cooking, with a staging area in the barn next to the tent. 

Hayley, the bride Sept.2, 2006

Here's the bride, waiting for her groom, and her brother Jeremy. 

Lance, the Groom Sept 2, 2006

Our handsome groom in his Navy(Canadian) dress blues 

Lance and Hayley Wedding Cake Sept. 2, 2006

Pook made this delicious wedding cake, and it was decorated following the 'apple' theme, which we kept to despite the fact that the apple tree setting got rained out. 

Rehearsal Dinner, September 1, 2006

Lance Mooney and Hayley Nichol at their Rehearsal Dinner at Aunt Peggy and Uncle Hartley's farmhouse near Charleston lake. Ross, father of the bride raiding the frig. A fabulous meal prepared by her cousins Tara and Christy. 

Nichol Farm, Athens, Ontario Sept 3, 2006

Here is Pook's (longest, not oldest friend's) heritage stone farmhouse in Athens, about 40 minutes north of the Thousand Island bridge from the US. The gardens are wonderful. Wiltse Lake and the trumpeter swans are past the porch addition, and the apple trees, under which the ceremony was supposed to be, are behind the house. Ernesto, the hurricane is visible in the sky. 

Bethany Beach, August 25, 2006

Here are our Pro Golfers-Evan, Madi, Tom, about to embark on the tour at Fenwick Miniature Golf. 

Bethany Beach, August 22, 2006

Tom and Madi and Pink Sparkling Diamond, the hopping, squeaking bunny. 

Bethany Beach, August 21, 2006

Tom, Evan and Madi jumping the waves in Bethany. 

Bethany Beach, August, 2006

We had a great time at Bethany Beach! Here are Penny, Tom and Madi, and Andy, as well as Uncle Brad. 

Back home, August 6, 2006

Madi and a friend at her house. She's six years old.! 

Back Home, August 6, 2006

Aunt Judy, Evan and Tommy in Penny's pool, a belated celebration of Madi and Tom's 6th birthday. 

McCall, Idaho July30, 2006

Our own RV park at Jayme's house in McCall. Our last visit of the summer. 

Winchester, Idaho July, 2006

Spent the night in Winchester at a state park, and caught this memento on the way out. 

Oasis Bordello Museum, Wallace, Idaho, July 26, 2006

We've captured Lee at the Oasis Bordello (museum) in Wallace. We all took the tour- the museum is as it was in the 80's when the inhabitiants left hastily prior to a raid. The bordello funded most of the school band and other activities. 

Wallace, Idaho, July 26, 2006

Check out fundraising in Wallace. This pretty is deposited on one's front lawn, and remains there until a donation is made to the charity- this one is breast cancer-and someone picks it up and deposits on the next lawn. Donors get to pick the recipients of the next one. Wallace is a small mining town on the Mullan Pass back into Idaho. 

Missoula, Montana July 26, 2006

Surfing in Missoula! These teens have figured out how to ride a surfboard in the rapids-this one could stay in this spot for about 15 minutes. 

BobbiAndLeeRV

BobbiAndLeeRV
9-22-06
Reno Nevada

Dearest Readers,

The adventure continues!!
There are new pictures posted- after July 15, 2006. We are up to July 25th, and we will try to post some more this week-if we have any internet. We are headed through the Donner Pass tomorrow, and there are rumors there is already snow. We know there will be winds up to 40mph. Then we head down the gold rush highway-US49.
Yahoo will not let me send an email with many recipients, so for now there will be no email alert.
9-19-06
Boise Idaho
We are back in Boise and headed for California in the morning. We are heading down 95, not our Baltimore interstate, but a little red road through the alkali flats of Nevada. There is a whole index on the AAA map for Ghost Towns, and lots of dotted lines for gravel roads. Since we were too wimpy to leave this afternoon since it was raining, you can be sure we are not taking our baby on the gravel roads.

Today we took our baby for its (her?) first oil change. Sort of like the baby’s first haircut? Yesterday we took her into Bodily RV for RV repairs. We had a leak that ran under the kitchen sink from the shower- but naturally, not every time. Lee Seabolt, that legendary fix it man, took all of the vent covers off, and the bottom out of the kitchen cabinet, but surprise, he found sawdust rather then water. Bodily left lots of caulk debris everywhere so we are confident the problem is solved.

When we returned to Boise and our little 35 foot long storage lot, where we parked our 35’9” RV, we were stunned to find no dents, scratches, mouse droppings or graffiti. Luckily, the Ravens-Oakland game was on and televised in Boise, so Lee could keep Bobbi company while she unpacked the suitcase and 3 duffels.

Since last we wrote we have been home for ‘vacation’ and up to Canada for a wedding.
We had a beautiful week at the beach. Penny and her beautiful 6 year old twins, Tommy and Madi, joined us, as did my sister, Judy, and her family – Jayme from Idaho, Lauren and her 4 year old son Evan. Weather was good, and we were entertained each morning with Madi’s stories, thrilled with Tommy’s small airplane launches from the third floor loft, and mesmerized by Evan’s total recall of all of the details from “Cars.” You can’t have any more fun that a four year old and six year old twins at the beach. Sadly, the hermit crabs did not fare well. One passed away following the demise of its shell, and the 2nd one got out of its cage, roamed all over the car during the 3 hour ride home and camped out in the sand chair, where it was located several days later. On a brighter note, Pink Sparkling Diamond joined the family, a lovely brown, pink nosed mechanical bunny, who can hop, squeak, and had to be led on a leash most of the week. Brad distinguished himself with Uncle duties, Andy cooked some fabulous breakfasts, and Lee got in some golf. It was a great time.

We borrowed back the Minnie Winnie that we had “sold” to Andy, and headed up to Canada for the wedding of my “longest” not “oldest” friend’s daughter. Hayley and Lance both graduated from the Royal Military College- Canada’s version of West Point and the Naval Academy, so the groom was spectacular in navy dress blues, and the bride was just beautiful. The young people at the wedding were the best; the bridesmaid is the only female among 40 navigators that fly some fighter bombers. The wedding was held in the tent in the rain, at their heritage farmhouse in Ontario, about 30 minutes north of the Thousand Island Bridge. Unfortunately, Ernesto also came. Who ever heard of a hurricane in Canada!!!???. Nova Scotia maybe, but above New York???. The grooms family was from the West Coast-their Prince George is a city north of Calgary- I don’t think anyone ever calls it PG. At any rate, we had 15 for dinner, 40 for brunch, etc. for a couple of days before and after. The trip confirmed our decision to buy a new RV if we were going to spend any significant time in it.

We noticed when we were home, that several of you, dear readers, were so surprised that we were still married, still speaking to each other and still planning on returning!! We think the secret of our success is that Bobbi has been partially deaf since 1980, and Lee, can’t hear much any more, so we both assume when the other is shouting at us, it’s because he/she wants us to hear what we are saying. We’re on the road again and having fun! We’ll be trying again to post some pictures, but not until after we leave the Donner Pass.

BobbiAndLeeRV

BobbiAndLeeRV

Columbia Falls, Montana July 25, 2006

Here is the only moose we saw. Found him in a very strange antique store in Columbia Falls. (Picture is alittle blurry- remember you can double click the pix to get it bigger.) 

Seeley Lake, Montana July 25, 2006

For all of my family members sporting Tamarack (resort, Idaho) sweatshirts- this is a western larch or tamarack. See how the needles are in a circle? and they drop their needles every fall.