Cascade Locks,OR 8/09/08

Hi all,it's me again.
Well the reunion has been great.My mom and 2 aunts are just full of it.Knowledge,I mean. Their full of Fun and Love.They all are sharp as a tack.And aside from some physical,get around problems,Their all 3 doing great.We ,as the next generation,know so much more then we did before.They were able to identify many old family photos,and tell us stories of our grand and great grandparents.It was so cool.
Back to our trip.
The boys are headed home with their parents.We will all be leaving this morning for different parts of Calif.
I'm heading straight down I 5 cause I can hardly wait to get home to Anderson,and my cats and dog.
That's about all for now.
Take care.
Jan

Cascade Locks,OR. 8/09/08

Ben checking his flies. Mt Hood

Danny trying to wake Derek

Danny

Hi all,it's me again.
We made it to Cascade Locks,OR. for our Prentice Family reunion.
I think we have around 20 members of our family here.my mom and 2 of my aunts are here.They are the last of their generation.My aunt Marge knows all the birthdays and all the people that my generation never new.My cousin Jess and my daughter Stella have done alot of work putting together family photos that we have all had laying around.Jess put together a slide show of all the old photos and used the side of the mohome for a screen. That way we could all see them and identify some that we didn't have names or relationships for.Stella had alot too. She had hers all on discs. so we were able to do hers too.
Now back to the trip.We were able to get here on Thurs.afternoon,after going across the bridge into Washington.We went across the bridge and down the river gorge road and back into Oregon.SO WE HAVE COMPLETED OUR TRIP.We made it to 13 states.Saw just about everything we set out to see.And I have returned the boys to their parents.I hope alittle more understanding of our country and the beauty it gives us.I hope they have learned more about me and the family they come from.I know I've learned alot about each boy.They're both very loving and basically very good boys.They're both willing to help and do what they can for other people and I love them both even more then I did before.And I didn't think that was possible.
That's about all for now.
I can't find my camera right now so I'll add picts later.
Take care.
Jan

Smiling Lake Camp Ground,OR. 8/5/08-8/6/08

Hi all,

We moved the mohome and our camp site from Sisters to the Metoious River.It's beautiful there and we camped right on the river.Mike and the boys were able to fly fish right in front of the campsite.They didn't catch much ,but the boys were able to practice their casting.

This was much more like camping.No hook-ups and we had to have everything,or go without. There was a great store about 3miles from us so the guys could get what they needed to fly fish.

We were there 2 nights and it was great. Very relaxing.

We got on the road for Cascade Locks camp ground .

That's about it for now.

Talk to you later.

Take care.

Jan

Sisters/Bend 8/04/08

Downloading picts.

Danny on skateboard
Dinner time

Boys waiting for dinner

Hi all, We're still at Sisters/Bend.
It's a great campground and we have a great spot,clear in the back, were we can let the boys ride their skate boards or bikes. Danny loves to ride Bens skateboard.

We all went into Bend yesterday to look around. We found several fly shops for Mike and Derek and Ben to get some fishing stuff.Mike is going fishing this morning and the boys will go when we get to the reunion.

Around 6:30pm one of the guys that works here came by on his run,that the sprinklers might be coming on around midnight.They had been worked on earlier that day and he wasn't sure if they turned off back here.It was too late to check with the owner,so we decided to just move their tent and all their stuff to the campsite next to us.[The sprinklers didn't come on .That's ok. At least everyone stayed dry.
Stella and I were trying to down load all the pics from the trip on to one disc.Guess what? They won't fit on 10 discs.We're going to try to compress them to a zip drive or something.

Because of the tent move we had a very late dinner. It's ok because it was great. BBQ tri tip,corn on the cob and mac and cheese.GREAT MEAL.

We all sat around the campfire and made SMORES.LUV THE SMORES!!!

That's about it for today. We'll talk more tomorrow.

Take care.

Jan

Sisters/Bend,OR 08/03/08

Hi all.It's me again,

Well mom and dad got here yesterday afternoon.You should have seen the reunion between Ben and mom,dad and Danny.Danny was so sooo happy to see his big brother I thought they were going to cry.

Stella and I went to the grocery store cause I was out of food and they needed stuff too.When we got back they were all about each other.

Yesterday poor Ben watched for them all day. He was sure they were closer then they said.

We spent the day moving the mohome to our new site and getting set up.The boys finally went swimming just before dinner. I had 2 very soggy boys for their meal.

We are planning the last of the trip. We only have Washington to go. I think we're going to cross the Columbia River and follow it back to Cascade Locks for the reunion.Then we'll be heading back home to Anderson,CA.

That's it for now. I'll talk to you later.
Take care.

Jan

Derek and Ben spent most of the day ridding their skateboards or ridding their bikes.

Sisters/Bend KOA 8/02/08

Oh what a wonderful day.Hi everyone,
It has been such a great day. NO DRIVING!!!

Now that we're at Bend,OR. we're waiting for Bens mom ,dad and little brother Danny, to get here from Los Osos ,CA.They left Los Osos this after noon for my house in Anderson,CA. to spend the night and continue on to meet us up here.

Ben is getting soo excited. He said he's going to give his mom a huge hug and not let go.He'll also hug dad and Danny,but not as much.He missed them just as much,but the hugs can't be as big cause they're not mom.

Even Derek is excited about them getting here.Aunt Stella and Uncle Mike are pretty special people to both of the boys.

We'll meet up with Dereks mom and dad and brother on Thurs.at the reunion.Derek has said the same about Marion and Chris,but he really wants to give his brother ,Brad,a hard time,just because he missed him.Boys will be boys.

Today we spent almost all day cleaning the mohome.The boys have had such a mess back by my bed,that some nights I could hardly get to my bed.So that was their job.To clean everything off the floor around my bed. They also had to fold all their clean clothes and put them away.

MY GOSH,I can finally find my bed.
After they finished they could do what they wanted to. One was checking e-mail and the other was playing mini-golf.I did laundry in my spare time.At least that's done.

Derek and Ben tryed to fix the tv,but it didn't work out.So we still don't have tv. It's only been 8wks.So we won't miss it for another few days.

I guess that's it for a slow day.

Talk to you later.

Take care.

Jan

Bend,OR. 8/1/08

Hi all,

IT WORKS!!!!The mohome works.She's fixed.She's back to her old self again.We got her back this morning around 10am.and pulled out of Meridian around 10:30am.

I tryed everything I could to cause her to mess up. But guess what She never missed a lick.

I'm OOOHHHH SO HAPPY.She's back to my old mohome.

We had a very uneventful trip from Meridian to Bend.

We had a beautiful day to travel,lots of pretty clouds and open land.There were several rivers and creeks we went by.

We did get one more state on our map.We only have one more to go.I hope we get that one next week while we are at the reunion.

I think that's about all for today.Talk to you soon.

Take care

Jan