Vacation began on August 19th at 5:30 pm. I hopped on a plane and flew over to Missoula to meet Jack & Bill, who'd spent part of their day golfing in the Bitterroot Valley. Jack stayed with his Nannie--Bill & I got to stay at the cutest bed & breakfast in Stevensville. One of the coolest features was the night light in the bathroom. It looked a lot like this:
What makes this so incredibly cool is that it glows a whole rainbow full of colors--it'll change from red to green to purple, etc. We really wanted to take it! But instead, we asked our kind inn keepers where they got it...and of course, the answer was: Costco. So now we have five of them in our house.Anyway.
After a lovely time with our relatives, including a golf outing with my great grandfather (who completely waxed us--even Bill!) and a great float trip on the Clark Fork, we came home, did some laundry, and headed down to Laguna. The weather was perfect. Jack worked on his sand castle building and I worked on my tan. Bill worked on...well, nothing. Which is the whole point of a vacation, yes? One fun element to it all: we rented a Toyota Prius. It was very fun, and very cool to drive. We averaged 40-miles to the gallon, which was fabulous, since gas in California costs even more there than it does in WA!
We ended up heading over to Riverside a little early: mom needed both whole blood and platelets just one week after her last transfusion. Very scary. Phil called--and we went straight to the hospital Friday evening. She ended up spending the night in the hospital, since it took them SO LONG to get the necessary blood & platelets. (Note to Parkview Hospital: it is NOT good customer service to leave an elderly woman with leukemia waiting for EIGHT HOURS to get blood. And this was not the first time this has happened...) But she felt pretty great on Saturday, since she was back on "full"... and we had one of the best weekends with her in years.
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