Visit to Moscow...

A week ago, we headed to Moscow for the weekend, to visit Rick's parents, Howard and Jeanette. It was a quick trip...over on Friday afternoon and back on Sunday, but a fun and busy visit! Jayden came with us...in part to spend time with her great-grandparents and in part to see her friend, Evan, who lives in Pullman. We had arranged a play date for Saturday. Friday we arrived in time for "wine-thirty" and of course, dinner. Rick's sister, Patty, and her husband, John, also joined us for a great meal...fun to have us all together. Jayden seemed to enjoy everyone and was quite entertaining...she certainly knows how to charm!!

Saturday we unfortunately couldn't meet Evan as he was sick...but did stop by to drop off some photo and his mom, Erin, brought him to the car to say hello to Jayden through the window...both seemed quite sad they couldn't play...they are too cute together! Despite missing the playdate, we still kept busy and started out with checking out the bears and big horn sheep on the WSU campus...Jayden was quite interested in them, especially the bears. One of them was in a LARGE tub of water and just splashing and playing, like a kid, without a care in the world...it was actually quite cute! After that, we visited Terri's niece, Samantha (Sam) who is a sophmore at WSU and a RA this year. She gave us a tour of her (brand new) dorm and then we took her to lunch. It was great to visit with her and Jayden loves her cousin Sam, so she was quite happy! We did manage to do some photos of Jayden...not quite what Terri had hoped for, but she got a few! That night...another great meal...and Patty and John again joined us.

Sunday morning...EARLY...we woke up (and left Jayden sleeping) and headed out with Patty and John as they had found a covered bridge near Colfax they wanted to show us...we were out for about 3-4 hours, exploring the beautiful countryside of the Palouse...it's so different from the Puget Sound area and always fun to explore (okay, and maybe photograph!!). Back to Rick's parents...Jayden had just gotten up and we enjoyed a wonderful breakfast before packing and loading the car. On our way back home, we stopped in Pullman and met up with Evan (and his family...Mark, Erin and Jack) so the kids could play for a little bit...figuring the outdoors there wasn't much change of germs being passed along! IT was great as after that Jayden slept all the way to Ellensburg, where we stopped for something to eat before finishing the drive home.

A wonderful weekend, great memories, good photos and time spent with family!