Rasmania 102

 I noticed a text Saturday morning on my phone.  Marcia Marshall (my cousin Richard Winterton's daughter) said, "I'm the only one on the call...I thought this was supposed to be the important meeting with voting and everything."  I realized I blew it.  I've been the secretary of the Cook Family Organization for many years and I think this is the first meeting I totally forgot about.  The reason Marcia was the only one on the call was because I even forgot to send out reminder emails.  Still, everyone knows there's a meeting the 2nd Saturday of every month, so they shouldn't be so dependent on me, right?  I felt badly, but I felt I had some good excuses.  Elise, Andy and their four children have been visiting since Tuesday.  Yesterday (the day of the above blunder), Ruby was baptized in Logan, and today Jennie and Jordan are blessing Foster.   Ruby, Crista and Matt.  Ruby was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of La...

After two weeks in Italy and a weekend trip to the cabin for Memorial Day, I was ready for a quiet week.  I spent the week studying for my gospel doctrine lesson and catching up on some sewing and reading.  Roy isn't as excited by quiet time at home, so he signed up to go on another side by side ride with the club he joined.  This time he invited Gunnar and Hyeji to accompany him.  I was more than happy to let them have my spot in the vehicle!  We picked up Hyeji on Friday night and then went to get Gunnar.  He'd forgotten, so he wasn't there, so he missed out on a dinner out with grandpa and grandma.  Hyeji took this selfie in front of Gourmandise Bakery where we went for dessert.   We tried a picture with my camera, but my lens was smudged, so Hyeji took our   picture with her camera.  She's more practiced at it than we are! Gunnar spent the night at our house since they had to get up early to meet the other riders.  We watch...

We're used to things going fairly smoothly, but once in a while we run into a flat tire.  This time it was literal.  We left home to drive to Flaming Gorge to spend Memorial Day weekend (we thought of loved ones, but didn't visit any graves--we'll have to do that in the near future).  When we got nearly to Morgan, the tire on our boat trailer blew. It not only blew, it shredded.  We pulled over and Roy changed the tire.  I stood at the back of the boat to give oncoming cars a little more to see so they would move over a lane and give Roy a wide berth.  Most of them did, but a few made us a little nervous.  After the tire was changed, a quick examination of the remaining tires helped Roy decide to see if we could replace them all before we continued on.  It was one of those tender mercies that we found a tire place nearby with exactly 5 of the right tires--just what we needed.  We got the tires changed and went on our way.  Since we were ...

Rome We planned to arrive in Rome a couple of days prior to joining our tour group so that we could aclimate to the time change.  The first night there we had tickets to an opera concert.  We were lucky to make it since our flight from Utah to Paris was delayed two hours and we missed our flight from Paris to Rome.  We enjoyed the concert so much, that we bought tickets to hear the first violinist become the soloist for Vivaldi's Four Seasons.  He was fabulous. Roy took a picture of these paving stones because he'd never realized that the stone is actually a wedge that fits down into the pavement.  He always thought they were just square stones placed together. Our first dinner in Rome. It was fun to eat true Italian pizza again. Rome: Food Tour Catharine with our guide (Sara) in a restaurant where we tried true Roman pizza. Roy was surprised that the crust was thin.  He thought that pizza in the south was thick crust.  They did have a panini that we d...