Westmoreland Asays

Tuesday, June 19th I woke up early and worked from home today so we could get to Silver Falls right at check-in time. The drive in took only 40 minutes or so, which was nice because our borrowed car (we lent our van to Meg's oldest brother, whose family of 7 flew in from Virginia, and are driving Meg's Dad's Camry) was literally packed to the roof. Wednesday, June 20th We woke up around 7:30 a.m. and ate cereal in our cabin. I spent the much of the morning playing (and teaching) baseball with most of the boys which, surprisingly, Aaron said was his favorite part of the trip. The main event for the day was playing on a bunch of ultra-huge inflatable play equipment that Charlotte 's older brother owns for a business venture, and he brought a 40-foot slide , a bouncing castle , and an obstacle course, which we set up in the South Falls day use area. I think just about everyone--including Grandma and Grandpa--took a plunge down the slide. Aaron and Edward preferred spla

I've often said that I want to live to a 100 (mainly because I need more time to learn things in this stage of life), so long as I was healthy and able to remain active. This guy in Japan has it down. His reasoning for why he's made it to 111 is pretty cool, too.

At the dinner table tonight, I asked Aaron why he didn't want to have his picture taken with our ward on Sunday (my Megan was in Utah working on our vacation house, and younger Megan had a difficult time corralling Aaron outside the church building after the meetings--I was tied up with a screaming Edward on my shoulders). Aaron promptly replied with a straight face, "I thought they were going to shoot a cannonball after the picture."

I was running through PSU's campus on my way to Washington Park on my lunch-time run today, when I saw a dear running around near the soccer field. I think it's finals week, so it was probably best that gawkers were relatively few--but those that were there all had their camera phones taking pictures and videos of this oddity. It didn't seem too afraid of me, but I was disheartened that it didn't challenge me in a race through campus. I think animals have a better sense of how old and physically limited I really am.