July 20th, Uncle Jim and Aunt Sharri's

  

Thursday, July 20, 2006
Day 25
Uncle Jim and Aunt Sharri’s

We met at a restaurant for a wonderful breakfast this morning. Rodney and I were finally able to pick up the tab. We feel as if Jim and Sharri are paying for too many things. They have been so nice to us and we truly feel very welcomed here. Anyway, breakfast was GREAT!

After breakfast we went to the National Car Museum with Uncle Jim. Aunt Sharri didn’t go with us because of the amount of walking that it involved. She recently had surgery on her knee, so too much walking can be painful. The car museum was really neat. It was set up like city streets of the time period the cars are from. There were really old cars, sort of old cars, and relatively new cars. Sheldon liked all the green cars, since green is his favorite color. Brianna like the cars too, but she also liked looking at some of the dresses, hats, and other accessories that the women of the time period wore.

There was one car there that you were allowed to sit in to take a photograph, and you could put on old time clothes and hats for the photo. Rodney, Sheldon and Brianna all got in and I took a photo. Sheldon liked it because he was able to touch everything and pretend to be driving.

On the way home from the museum we drove past Pyramid Lake. The lake got its name from the pyramid shaped natural rock formation near one of its banks. The lake was beautiful. Unfortunately I didn’t think to take any photos of it. Oh well. On the drive there and back we were also treated to seeing some wild horses. They were beautiful.

Around 7 p.m. we went back to Jim and Sharri’s house for pizza dinner – always a big hit! I was privileged to pick out some artwork to take home with me from Aunt Sharri’s extensive number of paintings. (She is an artist.) She gave me a beautiful tile from part of her “bird’s eye view” series. It is an eagle’s eye, up close, with clouds all around in beautiful sky blues. I also picked a lovely scene in blues with snow-covered trees, and I Brianna chose a lovely small painting done in a Chinese style, of a Chrysanthemum. I can’t wait to get these home to frame them and hang them up. I have had a painting of a poppy that Sharri did hanging in my living room for 11 years. Before that it hung in my other living room where we used to live for 3 years. Thank you so much SharriLou! Your art is incredible!

The last thing we did was to look at old photos that Jim had from when they lived in Albuquerque and also really old photos from when Jim was young and my dad was a little tiny kid. Those were great. Many photos were from the cabin when it was young too. It looks the same, only different. The trees are so small! The garage is so level and new. Now it isn’t even there anymore! There were a lot of photos of my grandpa building the dock and photos of all the boys. I enjoyed the photos of my grandma Casey too. She was so pretty when she was young. I’m only sorry I don’t really remember her.

Now it’s time for us to say goodbye to Jim and Sharri. I only hope we will see them again before too long. It has been a pleasure! Tomorrow we’ll be leaving to head back toward Utah, and Bryce and Zion National Parks. We’ll stay tomorrow night in Ely Nevada, close to the Utah border.