Hot Lunch Thursday

Lucky Jack, the guys were pouring when we took hot lunch down for the crew today.  There was a lot going on on sight today.  It was like a little boy's dream come true...a back hoe, bulldozers, dump trucks, a train, ready mix trucks, and a pump truck...WOW!  (He even got to see the guy come to clean out the port-a-pot...that's when we left! :P)

This thing looks even bigger w/ a "roof" on...it's about two stories
tall (you can only see part of it here, as we're outside the hole).

Jack's giant "mit-mits" (mittens)...
waiting for the action to start 

Immmmmpressed...

...and rightly so!

Little did Ryan know, he had a cheering section as he worked!

It's fun that Ryan does a job that Jack can somewhat "get" at this age.  He's very much into big equipment so it seems to be a pretty big deal to Jack to see his daddy driving these things around and having them on the his job.

Sunday Afternoon

Okay, this is more of a journal for us of our time out in WA...so I'm sorry for so many posts!  Just scroll through quickly...or take a little break from checking this!

Yesterday afternoon we went up to see the Grand Coulee Dam.  It has the most concrete in the northwest or maybe the country, or something like that.  I think more than one of us was impressed...it was HUGE!  It was a cool drive up (similar to up the Columbia River last weekend) and there was a pretty good over look on the way, which would have been even cooler had it not been DRY Falls!  :) Apparently we would have had to be there during the Ice Age to see it before it was dry...a little late.

Dry Falls

This was a mandatory hand-holding place!

"Jack, can you smile for a picture?"

The water on most the lakes/rivers through the gorges
is really calm so you get some pretty cool reflections. 

The Grand Coulee Dam

Washington Apples

There are tons of apples and orchards out here.  We even have an apple tree in our front yard.  Jack likes to play with the apples.  We've eaten a few, but they're mostly past and the bugs/worms have claimed their territory.