Where have we been for the past two weeks???

Today is Saturday 9/2/06
We have been traveling for the past couple of weeks so had no opportunity to update.
Here is a recap of where we have been and where we are now.

On August 17 we left Leelanau County and headed down to Manistee, MI to attend Larry’s 50th High School Anniversary. We parked in a nice park at the Casino and were joined in the park by two other classmates. Jerry Ayres and his wife camped there too as well as Fay Murphy and her friend. Jerry had made arrangements with the casino to reserve the parks shelter house for a Friday night buffet; over one hundred classmates and spouses from the MHS class of ’56 showed up. Then on the following evening, Saturday the 19th, we had a social gathering ending with a sit-down dinner at the Manistee Country Club.
It was great renewing old friendships, however I did make the remark though that “It seemed to me that I was the only one in my class to attend, everyone else having sent their parents”. But I guess that everyone else thought the same thing, especially when they last saw me in HS, I probably weighed only about 135 lbs.

On Sunday we pulled out and headed for Wisconsin and after spending the night in the Wal-Mart parking lot in Petosky, we again stopped for a visit with our RV friends Dan & Pat Martenson in Escanaba. We had a great time and stayed up until after midnight playing Mexican Train.

Monday we continued on to Appleton where we had an appointment at Appleton Camping for some minor warranty repairs scheduled for Tuesday morning. We spent 5 days in Appleton getting our RV repairs done, doing laundry, getting the truck serviced and visiting Mike & Toni. Had lunch w/Becky & Tony and were invited for dinner on two consecutive nights at the Welhouses and the Orrs.
Saturday afternoon we had our "Blessed Event" of watching our Monarch butterfly emerge from his chrysalis.
She spent about 20 minutes drying out and then we released her outdoors, so once again we are "empty nesters".

Sunday the 27 found us heading west as we had to be at Dinosaur Monument in NW Colorado by September 1 to begin our month long stint as volunteers working in the Visitors Center.
We arrived Thursday afternoon the 31st crossing Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Wyoming to get here.





At the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD Teddy met up with this guy, but lucky for me, it didn't work out.











Our boss, Sue Walter has spent the last two two days training us and taking us on an extensive tour of the park. It is spectacular with awe inspiring views. I will tell more about the park in subsiquent blogs.
Right now Teddy and I are in the public library in Vernal, Utah. About 35 miles west of Dinosaur on Rt. 40. This is the closest place that I can get on-line so probably won't be on line more than once a week. :-(.