Saturday, September 6, 2008

Trip Home to the Tri-Cities

For the long Labor Day Weekend, we drove to our hometown of Tri-Cities, WA, to see Bruce and Mandee's new baby, Cooper. Shaunna Keith, Jeremy, & I had a wonderful time visiting with family and friends. Jeremy & I stayed with life-long friends, Mara & Nate Kraus and their fun kids - plus her dad took us on a great boat ride on the Columbia River. We also did a tour of Kennewick & Richland, visiting all our old houses, including Grandma's, and taking pictures to document how they have changed since we lived there or Grandma and Grandpa lived there. Everything seemed smaller this trip, for some reason - it took less time to get places (than I remember, anyway), and it's grown. The cities have really made some great improvements to the infrastructure, gotten better stores, and spread out. Nice to see some things do change.
It was a great weekend. Thanks for hosting, Mara!!

3 comments:

Oceanchild said...

That looks like fun. I know what you are saying about everything looking smaller as you get older. It is crazy how things change.

Mara said...

Hey Sher, miss you already! Hope you can come again soon. It was fun to see the slide show!

Jodi said...

It was so fun visiting with you and finally meeting Jeremy. I just wish we could have seen more of eachother. Or at least gone to our usual place for lunch or dinner. Definately next time!!!