We flew up to Spokane last Sunday afternoon to surprise Brody on his 70th birthday. And Brody would have been complete surprise if Eric hadn't called him from the airport to wish him happy birthday (so he wouldn't get suspicious). While they talked, an extremely loud voice came over the intercom announcing something about luggage--and who could better recognize our location than a pilot! Oh, well. It was still fun to casually walk up to him at his party that evening and give him a big hug.
Ann's sisters and their hubbies had come from Iowa the day before to surprise Brody and we had a nice couple of days visiting with everyone. We took a long drive on one gorgeous day and wandered off the main road to find Lake Ellen:
We enjoyed a picnic lunch and played a game of password in the woods--in spite of posted warnings about a "problem bear" in the area. Yikes! Thankfully, we only saw problem bugs.
The next day, we ventured to the 6-lane Chewelah bowling alley for some friendly competition.
I thoroughly enjoyed the responses to bad balls.
We spent our last night up north with Mike, Tanya and Emerson, where we packed up some of Grandma Conklins furniture to bring back to Oregon. Em is talking more and more, which is so fun! And Mike and Tanya just celebrated their 13th anniversary! 
It was so great to see everyone!
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