This is Mary Kay, Chuck, Jay and Dot when we went to the Taste of Omaha a few weekends ago. We were listening to a concert and chatting before we all took off for home. The second picture is a gondola on the water there at the Conagra area which is also what we could have been watching. It was a beautiful day and if anyone has the chance they should go next year, they have all the food places set up booths and you buy tickets to purchase the food from whatever place sounds good to you at the time. You also can walk down to the Missouri to Rick's Boat house (that is a place to eat) and there is a talent show usually going on there and other booths selling different items.

We got a chance to see the race car at the UPS party. It has not done well this year in NASCAR, but then neither has my favorite. Tate is coloring a paper airplane that we assembled and then tried to throw into holes, that was not easy, but he did a good job of designing it though. Here also (because I messed uploading, it was giving me fits) are some photos of our flowers in front of the patio.

Tate got a tatoo at the UPS party. He is riding a truck that is really not a riding toy but loves to try it anyway. I am pushing a button on the front that makes a motor sound (plus holding the front end down.)

This is kind of blurry, but the lighting is very bad in the center of the ship for picture taking (they want you to buy their pictures for 20.00 each). But these are two of the second place golf tourney champs. Chuck got in on at the last minute on Eric's team because someone failed to show for the finals.

Tate didn't like the noise of the mower at first when we started it up in the garage, but boy when grandpa took it to the yard he was all about getting on and riding. I had the yard all mowed so they were just playing around, wasting my precious gas. Oh the things we do for grandkids.

Tate had a wonderful time playing on the patio all morning. It was very hot and muggy out but there was a cool breeze blowing across the patio and he enjoyed the fresh air and play time with Grandpa

This seems to happen after a hard morning of play time. I don't know which one slept the best, both were very tired

Tate and Grandpa had a good time at the UPS 100 years party on Saturday. Tate raced the "Brown Truck" (see Grandpa taking the picture in the side window? ) then Grandpa helped him get into a semi. It was a hot day but we got an ice pop at the end of our party. We didn't have time to eat there we had to get to another party in Fremont.

The bar at the back of the ship was never opened but we would take our drinks back there and watch for whales and let the breeze take us away. One day it was either too much breeze or too much drink or just too much in general, but the ceramic tile was really nice and warm.

A few games of shuffle board was a fun sport to watch. Sara, Kim, Angi, cuddled into the chairs and Chuck and Eric bundled up and played.

Our first outing off the ship and I guess Sara didn't want to be left there. :) This is in Ketchikan, the city is right along the water and so beautiful. I had to put a colored paper (that is the purple around the edge) behind the picture or the scanner would not pick up the light mountains and sky. The second picture is a totem pole in the red light district of Ketchikan. Sara and Chuck are standing in front.

This is Angi, Kim, and Sara using the jogging track on the cruise ship. We didn't do it every day but it was refreshing when we did find time to make the trek.

We are waiting outside the Seattle airport for our bus to the hotel. You can guess what Eric is doing, I have my idea, but don't want to share it online. (Is that what they call " jet lag?" )

This is a stairway in the middle part of the cruise ship. The lighting was not good for picture taking but we did get one decent one. Thanks to Mary Kay and her camera, and a nice gentleman that took it for us. Kim, Chuck, Angi, Eric, Sara, Mary Kay. This is just before we went to eat at our formal evening.

The wind really played havoc with the clematis on our trellis but they are still very beautiful. Some wrens have built a nest in there and we can't even see them. The only reason we know they are there is when we walk by they make so much noise. Chuck couldn't figure it out at first what the noise was and they didn't make the noise when I walked by, but then I stomped my feet as I went and they started to chirp. Sometimes they fly out and try to distract us away. Such fun.

A close up of the beautiful clematis that I walk by every day to go to the garage.

Chuck jogging along the waterfront in Seattle. There was a 5k run that morning, and Eric would have entered the two of them if he would have known it sooner. They did however jog along the path the runners were on, so they felt like they were entered.

Lively men from the Yukon. And which one do you think is the cutest? I best vote for the one I brought home.

This is one of the many interesting things they did with food on the cruise. That is cauliflower that makes up that lamb, with a pepper hat, and a carrot for a tail. They were so neat !!!! They let us tour the galley and I really enjoyed that tour. The kitchen was so BIG and NEAT.

Chuck and Mary Kay are relaxing on deck while they wait for our next meal.

This is Chuck, Sara and I on the suspension bridge in Alaska. The rapids were flowing very fast below us. Not my kind of thing but I did cross it and enjoyed the scenery.