Since both of us wanted to celebrate our Mother's this weekend we planned out the weekend to spend time in Bonney Lake to hang out with Trish and for me to come home and spend time with my Mom on Sunday. We called Trish and told her the plan and she loved it. Everything worked out perfectly.
That Friday, I worked until 4 but since I was working from home because of God Damn Covid, I was pretty much ready to go by the time I was done with work. I had gotten ready during my afternoon break. Ben had the day off, he got up late, ate breakfast and then he and Josh drove into Steilacoom to play disc golf and found out that it was closed because of God Damn Covid. So instead, they turned around and played at Woodland Creek for the rest of the afternoon. Afterwards, they went to Wendy's for a late lunch. I asked him if he was going to be hungry at dinner time. He said he should be.
I packed up everything in the Escape and then made sure to pack up the bacon, strawberries, chips and drinks. I stopped by the store to grab beans and a small thing of milk. Ben got home shortly after I left. He got his stuff ready and wasn't too far behind me. We drove separate because he was staying on Sunday and I was leaving on Saturday night to come help Erika pack and to spend time with my Mom for Mother's Day. I drove down Yelm Hwy, to Reservation Road and got onto I-5 at Mounts Road. The traffic wasn't too bad. If this was during normal times there would be much more traffic, but God Damn Covid.
I really wanted to grab a cache so I found one off the freeway that was fairly easy to get off I-5 and then back onto I-5. Rock On, Smiley, Rock On! (GC89H30) was at the Ponder's/Woodbrook exit at the gas station right off the freeway. I parked the Escape as close as I could to the cache, walked over, grabbed it and signed my name. It was an easy park and grab.
I got back on I-5 and made my way to Bonney Lake via Hwy 512, 167 to 410. I made it to her house around 6ish. I spent sometime unloading the Escape and Amy helped me bring it all in the house. I had gotten a plant for Trish for Mother's Day so we carefully took that out of the back and put it in the front porch.
Trish was out back mowing the lawn so her flowers would still be a surprise. I walked out to the back yard and hung out with her while she finished the lawn. I made fun of her the entire time and she is a pretty good sport about it.
Ben arrived about half hour later so we helped him bring in his stuff. Trish finished the lawn and put everything back and cleaned up a bit. She asked if we were hungry and we said we sure are. She called the teriyaki place and ordered food. It would be ready in about a half hour. Trish, Ben and I piled into her car to go pick it up. I sat shotgun because I called it first. We drove to Honto Teriyaki, which was over by the Walmart, paid and got back in the car so we could take it home and feast like kings!
I nommed so hard on mine. I haven't had food since 11:30 so this sure hit the spot. We visited while we ate our food. It was nice.
After we cleaned up, we talked Trish and Amy into playing Jackbox with us for a while. Ben hooked up our Firestick to their TV. It took them a couple rounds to figure it out but all and all they had fun and would play these games with us again. Next time we will have to get Ed all up on it too. We turned on Disney+ and started where we left off on the Star Wars saga. Ben and I started watching them all in order starting on May 4th. Whenever we both were home and had the time we would pop one in. We watched Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. I've only seen this movie one other time. Out of all the Star Wars movies I hate Episodes I-III. They are terrible but you gotta watch them when you're watching all of them in order.
After the movie, I was so ready for bed. Getting up early and staying up late was killing me...plus it was a very warm day so downstairs was going to be super hot. Ben grabbed the airplane fan, I call it that because it sounds like an airplane taking off, and found the night light so when I get up to pee in the middle of the night I don't die getting out of the bed. We got ready for bed and tried our hardest to get comfortable on that horrible mattress.
Sleeping was miserable. I probably woke up at least four times tossing and turning to get comfortable. I got up to pee once.
The next morning I got up around 9:40 because we had to get up so we could eat breakfast and get ready to take Ben's car into Korum for his 15K maintenance. Trish was making French toast and bacon and it smelled good. After breakfast I took a shower and got ready to go. We both drove down to Puyallup and dropped his car it off with the service center. I brought the Escape just in case it took a while to do and we weren't stuck there. We chatted with Sandra for a while and then walked to the Fred Myers so Ben could get nose spray because his allergies were kicking his butt. We used the restroom and walked around the store for a bit. I ended up getting a few things. By the time we were done at the store, Korum called to let us know that his car was done. We walked back over and Ben paid. We thanked them and then I asked Ben if we could go get two caches while we were down here. He said sure.
The first one, A View of the Ocean (GC7X68W), was over by Grayland Park. We both parked in the lot and walked across the street to the Meineke Car Center. It was hidden in a fence end cap. It was the only place it could be with where the coords took us. We signed the log and put it back.
The other one we had some time to grab was, Old Knotty (GC8MVRB), was over by the fairgrounds. That was an easy park and grab however, I could see this cache disappearing pretty quickly with its location and how it was hidden. It's only a matter of time.
I felt like a Slurpee from 7-Eleven since it was a fairly warm afternoon for the beginning of May. I knew there was one up on South Hill but we checked our phones to see if there was one closer. There was but both of us didn't remember there was one across the street from the fairgrounds. We were literally less than a block away. I got my red cherry Slurpee and Ben got his blue raspberry but mixed in a lemonade kind in with it. He is so fancy.
We pulled out onto Meridian and got onto Hwy 512 and headed back towards Bonney Lake. I stopped at Walmart to see if they had Pine Sol and the mop and bucket mom needed for work but they didn't have any so I went back to the house.
I did a few things on my computer while Ben worked on the kitchen sink. That was his Mother's Day gift to his mom as well as fixing the towel bar in her bathroom. Trish, Ed and I played some Phase 10, I won! Later on I helped Ben with the sink and towel bar for a while. He needed me to hold stuff.
Around 5ish, Trish started cooking the burgers on the BBQ and we helped by getting everything else ready and even set the table for her. We ate, cleaned off the table and then played Scattergories, I won that game too. We played contract rummy, I didn't win because I had two bad hands and ended up going from second to last place!
I decided it was probably time for me to get my stuff ready to go and head home. I needed to go home, get cleaned up, sleep and then get up the next day to help Erika pack up stuff and load it into the trailer that Dad is going to stop by and drop off. I thanked Trish for letting us come and visit and gave out some hugs and told her Happy Mother's Day. She appreciated my flowers and was happy Ben and I could spend some time with her over the weekend. I told her we would have to plan a weekend where she comes and visits us. She said we will have to to do that.
I got home around 10ish, unpacked my stuff, got a shower and went to bed. I was tired after sleeping on that awful mattress the night before. Being in my own bed was so nice.
The next day around 11, Dad stopped by with the trailer and we helped him take it off the truck and park it in the driveway. We thanked him and he went home. The rest of the day we spent putting already packed boxes into the trailer. We wanted to get a head start for the next day.
Around 4, I called into Dirty Dave's for some pizza for Mother's Day. I had set up tables in the front yard because I haven't mowed the back yard yet and didn't have that much energy to do so. I had everyone come over around 5. I drove down to Dirty Dave's in Erika's car, because mine was filled with her stuff, and sat in the parking lot and waited for my order. God Damn Covid has really inconvenienced everything and I could not wait until it was gone. It was slowly taking away all of my things I had planned for the summer. They brought my pizza's out and set them in the back seat of Erika's car. I drove back up and most everyone was here. I had bought plants and cards for mom and Grandma and we all ate pizza and salad for dinner.
Everyone stayed for a couple hours and then I cleaned up the front yard and then Erika and I resumed going through things and packing up her stuff.
I took tomorrow off from work (so did Dad) so I could help her and Zach move to their new apartment off of Slater-Kinney. Ben stayed at his mom's house for a while and didn't get home until after 9 p.m.
It was a busy weekend. Happy Mother's Day!
Next Adventure: Erika Moves Again
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