Bend to Seattle

The past few days were pretty much spent at home. It was too hot to do anything outside. Cooper remembered when I showed him Second Life on my laptop a year ago and he wanted to see it again, so we did that one night. His mom allowed us to use her unused account and we dressed up the avatar as a little blue dragon. (He's into dragons.)

But, today was a long day. I decided to spend time with Cooper so I picked him up from his golf class around noon, then we went to McD's for lunch. We both got the chicken nuggets.

Then we headed to the High Desert Museum. He had been there several times before, so he was pretty much the tour guide. We were moving quickly from one exhibit to another as he was showing me the creatures. It was more like a small-animal zoo than a museum, really. We saw little squirrels (or maybe chipmunks) along the paths. They had an area that was a recreation of an 1890 town with the lumber mill and a barn.

We giggled at the rooster with no tail and made up a story that he was supposed to be dinner but he escaped. One of the docents, who was dressed in a costume for that era, showed him a Jacob's Ladder and he was fascinated with that.

Then we had to leave by 3pm to meet his grandma at the house at 3:30pm. But as we were heading out, one of the docents near the exit asked if we had seen the Sasquatch. So we went back to chase the very tall Sasquatch. Cooper didn't want to have his picture taken with the man though. And, in the car, he said it was just "a man in a gorilla suit". Of course, I insisted it was a real Sasquatch. :D

His grandma arrived at 4pm because she got delayed coming back from his grandpa's doctor's appointment. So, after hugs and goodbye's, I was off.

I stopped by a grocery store at Redmond, OR for bottled water, some snacks, and sushi for dinner later and packed them into my cooler. I stopped once for dinner and for gas. I got home sometime after 11pm.