It's not only about the athletes!! Janet,Barb and I had fun making pennants and decorating hats with foam stickers at the Olympic Village. Hey!! Why not. The athletes weren't playing with them so we did.

Special Olympic Fall Games 2009

My son Keith participated in the Special Olympics Fall Games in Seneca Falls NY. The weather was perfect for a cycling competition. Keith came home with two silver medals. The 1st was the 15k road race and the 2nd was a 5K road race. He said he just couldn't catch Paul. Paul trains by riding 90 miles a week and participated in a fund raiser for his training club where he rode 200 miles in a couple of days. Lance Armstrong may have had a hard time catching him!!! NOT!! But Paul is good.

Our new dinghy

I learned that people on motor homes call the vehicle they have either a dinghy or a towed. Well, today I, Bruce, Jordan, and her friend Nicole, drove to PA to pick up our new dinghy. Since we've been on a boat I think I will call our vehicle a dinghy. It's a 2001 convertible Mustang GT. It looks gray but is a pretty brown color. Not a color I would have normally chosen but I really do love it. It's a good color for fogey's like us. Troopers won't notice us as much as they notice red or yellow sports cars. When we stopped for lunch the young waitress asked if that was our Mustang and asked what size engine it had. I have a feeling teenage kids are going to be our best friends now!!! It sure is fun to drive but I am very careful about the speed I drive. Not to mention I had two teenage girls in the car with me and all they think about is driving fast.

We spent a night at a truck stop with the big boys. I feel very save surrounded by these rigs.

A view from the top

We did some hiking in the badlands and had to climb this ladder.

The Badlands South Dakota

Mount Rushmore

This is what Crazy Horse will look like when finished.
Bruce and I feel this is a very ambitious project
The sculptor died in 1982 ans 7 of his 10 children and his wife are completing it.
It is being sculpted in Black Hills South Dakota.
Sculptor Korczak Zionlkowski was asked to sculpt it by Lakota Chief Henry Standing Bear.
"My fellow chiefs and I would like the white man to know the red man has great heroes, too."

Snow caps in Wyoming

Chillaxing after a hard day driving

June 8th Bruce and I celebrate 35 years. It's official, Arcadia is sold. We got a decent price and as it stands now, we will bring her down to NYC in the fall where they will take her back to FL. They are changing her name to Betty Lou. I get to keep the rug with Arcadia on it. I cried!! But time to move on to new adventures.

On June 15 th Bruce and I flew to Whidbey Island Washington to pick up our new motor home.
I was pleasantly surprised by how nice the coach is. We bought it sight unseen, except for photos on E Bay, I was still a little nervous. I know pictures are worth a thousand words but I was anxious to see for myself.

Our first camp ground was in Ellensburg WA. Along the way we saw this Wild Horses Monument. The Wild Horses Monument is a piece of roadside art along I-90 in the deserts of Central Washington on a bluff above the East side of the Columbia River. The monument pays tribute to the wild mustangs who roamed these areas in days past. The wild horses, which are made of welded steel plates, are the work of Spokane artist David Govedare.