Jayden and Jo feeding the seagulls

We went down town Seattle to Ivars restaurant and ate out side so we could feed the seagulls.

24 ft 5th wheel trailer

. We purchased a 10 year old 24 ft 5^th wheel trailer. It is small but comfy and has everything we need there. We do not have our motor home up in Washington and we have rented year round the spot on Lake Roosevelt. We needed some thing to put there.

If we planned using it.

I had to rebuild our entrance to the deck. The door is in the back on the 5^th wheel as apposed to the motor home being in the front. One good thing is the deck height worked out good. It is only a small step up into the trailer.

I have some work to do on the water heater. The electric heating element is burned out and when you us the gas to heat it get to hot. I bought a new element and tried to get the old one out but it is stuck pretty good. Other than that every thing else seams to work okay.

Remington Indiana

Here is a link to a video of my childhood home town. There are also a few pictures of their 2010 Sesquicentennial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiPjOy_XsrM&feature=player_embedded

Dew

As I was going out to fly I saw the dew on my grape leaves.

Boogie Woogie Jayden

Merle & Lynnette Hoosier and Dave & Alice Wilson at their place in Entiat

We went over and stayed with Merle & Lynnette Hoosier and Dave & Alice Wilson at their place in Entiat. We arrived Friday evening. Saturday we drove to our place on Lake Roosevelt to check it out. Jo was not sure she wanted to keep the Roosevelt place. After seeing it again we decided we wanted to keep it. We returned to Entiat for Saturday night and returned to Lake Tapps on Sunday.

Alice, Sam, Jayden & Jo

In for a swim on Lake Tapps

Jayden on the phone

Mount Rainier

Mount Rainier

This was taken at the end of our drive way. I had to airbrush out the power lines.

Jayden

Our first day over 75 F this year. That is a new record for how late in the year it took to get to 75 degrees.

Jayden

Sammy is working on her BA and needs a baby sitter Monday thru Thursday 8 to 10 am. So we get Jayden then. Jayden has more energy than both of us put together but we have fun most days.

Train to Faibanks

We took the train to Fairbanks for the night. We then fly home the next morning.

We saw these from the train. The United States Air Force Ballistic Missile Early Warning System was the first operational ballistic missile detection radar. The original system was built in 1959 and could provide long-range warning of a ballistic missile attack over the polar region of the Northern Hemisphere. The facilities operated their original 1950s vintage radars for more than four decades. The fence antennas each 165 feet (50 m) tall and 400 feet (120 m) wide,but all have been upgraded with more modern phased array radars.

We took the train to Denali National Park

Holland America Line Inc. is running ten new bi-level dome dining-lounge cars for its Fairbanks-Anchorage rail service on the Alaska Railroad's passenger trains.

I was told that less than 20% of the people who visit here see the mountain. We were lucky.

Denali (The High One) is the Native (Athabascan) American word for North America's highest peak, Mount McKinley in the mountain chain called the Alaska Range. Denali was renamed Mount McKinley for William McKinley,

In 1980, the name Mount McKinley National Park was officially changed to Denali National Park and Preserve. The State of Alaska Board of Geographic Names has also officially changed the mountain's name back to Denali. Negotiations continue today to officially return the original native name to this magnificent mountain

We than went to Anchorage

Anchorage(officially called the Municipality of Anchorage [MOA]) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Alaska. With an estimated 279,243 municipal residents in 2008

We rode a Horse-Drawn Carriage.

It was cold and the day was long.

Lake Hood Seaplane Base off International Airport Road in Anchorage Alaska is the largest and busiest floatplane bases in the world. Daily flights depart to fishing lodges and remote fishing and hunting trips

Portage Lake

Portage Glacier is a glacier on the Kenai Peninsula It is located south of Portage Lake

Length	6 miles (9.6 km)

Jo wanted to see an Iceberg. These were in Portage Lake.