Ann and Brody were really excited to see Paul's dad, who was Eric's baseball coach, and mom, who, with Ann, was their troop's den mother. Many an embarrassing story was shared.
The box Ann is holding contains a mini carrot cake, which Paul's dad made for us. He actually made this cake (and the cake for the wedding reception!) using a recipe Eric and Brody created for a cake auction when Eric was in elementary school. Paul'd dad battled it out with the little brother of another friend of Eric's and paid a ridiculous amount of money for that cake, then started making it himself all the time. Not only did he bring us our own little cake since we wouldn't be attending the wedding, but he brought an old, stained index card with the original recipe written on it. On the top it said, "Eric's Carrot Cake." They told this story to lots of folks at the party and the Conklins were known as "The Cake People."
Ann and Brody had flown from Chewelah to Camus, WA (just north and west of Portland--across the Columbia River) for a weekend fly-in. The town is celebrating "Camus Days" and are holding events at the airport as part of the festivities. Here are Eric and Brody covering up the Brody's plane before heading to Olympia:
These are all Navions, a particular kind of airplane. The pilots are being briefed before heading up together do a fly-over--fly in formation--of the Camus Days parade.
There were some beautiful flowers at the airport.
On the way home, we made a stop at Burgerville, which is always a treat! It's a fast food place that serves local food, composts a lot of their waste, donates 100% of their oil to be used for bio-diesel and cooks up a tasty veggie burger! One of their seasonal items we could not resist was a basket of Walla Walla sweet onion rings! Even Brody, with his extremely high onion ring standards, would have been more than satisfied by this humongous, thick, flavorful fried things!
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so good to be updated on the life of miric.... miss you guys. :)
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