yooper visit

holy wah, i'm beat. long weekend, but we had a really nice time. dad and kelly got here thursday around 3. they came over, checked out our place, then we took a tour of pullman and moscow. we ended up driving to uniontown (on a dirt road we'd never been on, through a wheatfield, the scenic path) for dinner. we ate at eleanor's pub for dinner, who promise "the best burgers on the palouse" and i think they're probably right. friday i had to be at work from 11-3, and jeff worked all day. we met dad and kelly for breakfast at the old european (bigger/brighter suomi) where we ate abelskivers, eggs, and meat products. dad and kelly spent the day bumming around, then i met them at the book store around 3 where we poked around and they looked for WSU gear. did a campus tour after that, and then met up w/ our regular friday cocktail crew at rico's bar. finally we ended up the red door restaurant in moscow where we ate a very very yummy dinner, and where we met jeff after he got off of work. saturday we did the farmer's market, looked at the grizzly bears, watched some football, grabbed lunch, and went to prairie home companion. it was really cool and wacky to have prairie home here in pullman. i hope some of you managed to catch it live. it was a really nice time, great musicians, and just a lot of silliness. worth the $$ definitely. we then came back here and watched more football (theme of weekend) and finally went to swilly's in pullman for dinner. had great food. crashed.

wait, some of you might be wondering why we didn't end up in coeur d'alene. well, we were planning to go saturday after prairie home, primarily because there were no hotel rooms available in pullman that night and we figured it'd be fun to poke around. but they ended up getting the hotel for saturday night (somebody cancelled) so we just stayed put which was probably much easier in the long run.

anyhow, this morning we met up at a bar called the office. yes, i was at a bar on a sunday morning at 10am. but it was fun. it's this bar that shows every single nfl game and serves breakfast. so we watched the pack, drank bloody marys, and ate food. dad and i stuck around to watch the pack screw up and lose, and kelly roamed pullman a bit and jeff went to the bike store. it was fun. our friends andy and keri told us about it, as they're huge colts fans and go there most sundays to watch the game.

dad and kelly left here around 2pm to head to spokane, they fly out at 7am monday. then jeff and i went to kamiak butte as it's open again now that fire season is over. it's a butte about 10 miles from here. you can drive about 1/2way up and hike the rest of the way. jeff and i took a 3 mile loop around the butte. it's really pretty, but the way up is a bit of a hike. whew. nice views. i'll post pics soon. we then went to a belated wedding party some folks in the dept were having (they got married in portland in july). now i'm home. and tired. and have to go to the chiropracter at 8am tomorrow. but jeff is making me dinner, so i'm happy. it's week 8 this week, hard to believe. holy wah indeed.

ps. go cougs, go blue.