Monday morning.

It is Monday early morning, and we all survived are big 4th of July Trip. We left Friday morning, Three kids two chihuahuas, and two dvd players on the back of the front seats with movies, and video games. A JEEP packed full of everything, and lots of great snacks. Luckily it was only two in a half hours away from us. We stopped half way there, and went to an old flour mill in Pomeroy in the middle of no where, that I use to take Residences to when I drove there Bus, two years ago. A christian Family owns it, and they have great food and when your done with your food its by donation only you pay them what you feel like it is worth in a drop box, and then you can take a tour of the old flour mill, its like stepping back in time when you enter the old building my kids loved it. Of course our dogs had to be treated like dogs, and got tied up on the shady porch, with some water. They have an old organ, and the owner comes out and plays music while you eat. Great place, that is different to take your kids too. We got back on the road, and had only an hour left of traveling time. We had never been to Jims new house in Lewiston Idaho. We finally find it, and it is beautiful right on top of a hill over looking the river. 3400 square ft. Plenty of room he has three kids, and so do we. We had the downstairs, and they had the upstairs to sleep, so it was perfect. Jims my husbands good friend. He is a great host. He did all the cooking, and hospitality stuff, and his wife and I got to visit. and she took care of the two and four yr old. So Friday was stay home, and get to know each other again. It had been six yrs since I had seen them, and had never seen the two younger children. The men always act like teenagers when they get together they have to drink alot, like they use to in School. His wife and I have alot in comin so we had alot to talk about. Jim made all Food services of America food, because he is the manager, and can get great discounts on food so he barbecued Steaks, and made pasta noodles, big frozen macoroni and cheese, and big salad lots of food for ten people . I was impressed. Im the cook in my family so it was great to see him cooking he loves to entertain you can tell. The next morning Saturday was 4th of July, and Jim woke up and started cooking a huge breakfast bacon hashbrowns scrammbled eggs cinnimon rolls, fruit, toast, and coffee. I soon relized that If I wasnt careful that I was going to gain weight on this trip, so at dinner I had mostly salad and fruit and breakfast I just had a little taste of each on a small plate. Lunch came around, and he took out of his freezer more food service of america food, which was sweet and sour chicken, and rice and he made a huge pan of that again the kids loved every bit of it, and his wife and I were staying with the big salad and fruit that he made with it, because we knew we still had to go to the party, that was a barbeque potluck. After lunch his wife and I had to go to the store to buy the things we needed for the potluck, and around the house. We got back at 4:00pm and it was time to pack up, and go to the big 4th of July party, his friend have every year. We get there, and brought are coolers and fireworks, chairs, and put them in the front yard. His garage was open, and it was full of fireworks he had bought for 500 dollars a huge box of fireworks, the biggest box of fireworks I had ever seen, and everybody that came to the party brought all there familes fireworks, so you can imagine how much fireworks there was, kid heaven. My kids thought they died and went to heaven. You walk in to there house and it was full of food, and the owner was barbequing outside, hotdogs and hamburgers. They of course had every alcohol beverage you could think of there. A guy was runnning around through out the party offering straight shots to all the adults. So of course I was the designated Driver, along with Jims wife because my husband, and her husband have no will power to say no, to that much alcohol. It starts getting dark and the kids start lighting there fireworks, and then the owner of the house starts lighting the big box of fireworks it went on till 11:30 pm I felt like I was at a real professional fireworks show. They were so big, and so loud it was amazing my kids were so excited they said they wanted to come to this party every year. Then we cleaned up the road, you can only imagine how bad it was. We packed up, and went back to Jims. The kids were still hiper from all the excitement, so ve visited until about 1:00am. got up the next day at 9:00 am showered and started packing for home we cleaned there basement, and visited for awhile and went home. We got home unloaded the Jeep got it in the garage, and it started pooring rain and thundering. We ate dinner watched a movie, and went to bed we were all exhausted from all the excitement of the trip, and my dogs were very happy to be home, we all were. Its great to travel , But Its so nice to return home to your own bed.