Harmony Visit

We had Harmony for the night on Saturday and we had plans to take her shopping for shoes and to see the daffodils in Sumner yesterday. It was a very happy time for all of us while visiting and we went shopping for new tennis shoes for her in the morning. Kristine wanted her to have white tennis shoes for school and we never realized how difficult it is to find white tennis shoes. It seems like the wild and psychedelic colors have taken over the tennis shoe market as we had to go to several different stores to find them. We ended up at the South Hill Mall in Puyallup before we located a store that had the right pair for her.

There has been lots of talk and many comments made about the daffodil fields in Sumner. We had an address for them and took a drive to the location and found this area, of about 20 acres (maybe) of daffodils that were either almost done blooming, or not ready to bloom. It was hard to tell:

 



 The only access to these flowers was down a muddy side road and the only good part about it was that it was not raining while we were there. It was not anything like the Skagit Valley area where the tulips and daffodils are so plentiful and beautiful that we are going to visit this week while in La Conner.

We spent some more time back at the rig before packing Harmony's things up and heading to Kristine's for the rest of the afternoon. We spent time with her and her family and even had a short birthday party to celebrate her birthday which is Wednesday the 17th. We called it a day and headed back to our fifth wheel at around 6 PM.

What a surprise we had when we arrived back at the fifth wheel. It had obviously stormed while we were gone and there was either hail or snow - or both - that created a winter scene when we returned:



It didn't do anything but rain up until now and we are wondering if maybe the weather isn't done treating us to more of this white stuff. We can remember many April's when we lived here where there were snow storms that came through to remind us that winter is not yet over in this part of the country. We're keeping our fingers crossed for La Conner.

Our departure today is planned for around 9:30 AM which will get us to La Conner around noon after traveling the approximately 110 miles to the preserve. We will again get together with Kristine and Harmony next weekend when we have a planned visit with Justin in Marysville. The details for that visit still need to be finalized but we are looking forward to seeing him again...