Chuck Waggin' Tails - Day 3

Hi from Dave and Koichi...

Today's to-do list was much shorter and and straight forward... meet up with the Bus for lunch and then onward to Richland to get dinner started. Enroute to Richland, dinner was to be "burritos, but as Dave and I shared Eastern Wa stories about wineries run by hippies and containers of hay bound for Japan... thoughts of burritos began to morph into a "spaghetti fest" with marinara or meat sauce, cucumber salad, whole fresh shrimp taken from Shelton, leak (from Nash's farm) soup, fresh baked (par-baked) garlic bread and topped off with a killer banana shake.

Thanks to the added hand of Sara (Isabella), Sarah (Gabriel) and Mike (Sarkis)... dinner was on time (before 6:30p)...and was served on the lawn to boot. The only thing that did not quite make it was the leak soup... but we're saving it for tomorrow's dinner. I had a preview taste, something to look forward to for sure.

Thanks to the Bethel church's blender... we were able to concoct 8 ices cubes, 1 scoop of tillamook vanilla bean ice cream, 1/4 cup of whole milk, 1 cup of fresh orange juice and about 7 - 8 bananas... blended to a puree....for a perfect banana beverage. PERFECT! except for the fact Dave and I are at a stand-still as to whether or not to call this a smoothie or. shake. The jury is still out and the debate will continue tomorrow. For now, we found a way to kill about 40 bananas...but we have about another 40 to go.

get along lil' doggies... stay tuned y'all...
D & K