This week, Rachel had an interpreting conference. Usually, this means that she gets to travel and make a little vacation out of it. But, you know...Covid. So, the conference was virtual. "Coming soon to a coffeeshop near you." Not nearly as fun. But kind of cool, because it's all in Sign Language, so she can do her Zoom conferencing in public places without being too distracting. Perks of the job. Silver linings.
Anyway, what this means for the rest of the family is that we had a weekend to do stuff without Mom. Backpacking? Well...It's a bit late in the season. Too cold for one adult and five kids. Too much potential for a negative experience. Also, the entire Northwest was windy and rainy this weekend. Climbing? Rain. Camping? Rain. Hiking? Rain. Skiing? No snow. We could go to a movie or something, but we had a whole weekend in front of us that Rachel needed peace and quiet around the home.
We would visit family! Great idea! I actually got off of work a little bit early on Friday, loaded up the car, and headed out of town. For a while. And then, just when the freeway got into the mountains on a narrow road with no exits, we ran into traffic. There had been an accident. We sat in the car somewhere between two and three hours to go about 5 miles where we were able to finally turn off on a side road and reevaluate. Even if things had picked up right then, we still wouldn't have arrived until about 4:30 in the morning. And we only had one day to be there. We voted, and then turned around and made our way backed to our house.
I looked again at the weather map and found one little pocket of NotRain in the middle of the Washington desert. That was where we would go.
It was actually well worth the drive. We have been to Palouse Falls many times before, but this was the first time all five kids have been old enough to walk the trail to the actual falls and the pool beyond. It was fun. Here are some pictures:
Well, that's about it. Also, Rachel said that she had a good conference.
Have a good week!
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