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2015

 The seventh Taylor Family Reunion. 1985    Leatherwood Lodge, Grand Lake, Colorado1990    Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington1995    Truckee, California2000   Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington2005   Fort Worden, Port Townsend, Washington2010    Snow Mountain Ranch, Granby, Colorado2015    Natapoc Lodging, Plain, Washington I took the group photo.  One person at a time. By family: Bill and Pat.  Tom and Kathy.  Suzanne. This year’s hosts: Christie, Andy, Kyle, and Cameron.        David and Nina.  Steve and Judy.  Becky, Brian, Taylor, Tony, Teigan, and Conner.      Matt, Lindsay, Alex, Austin, and Arie.     …and of course, we took some group photos. The brothers. The wives. The entire group. Now the reunion has come and gone.  We’ve all headed out our separate ways.  Judy and I are spending the night in Ellensburg, WA, all set for a drive tomorrow morning. 2015 summer trip map 
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Reunion

 Enjoying the reunion.  Meant to get some pictures but don’t have anything yet, so here is something else from that boat ride last week. An elephant seal youngster lying on an island (with a great blue heron). This youngster probably goes 400 pounds.  
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Spoiler alert

 We weren’t through with the Olympic Peninsula but it was time to move on.  We moved to Leavenworth in Eastern Washington.  We settled at the Icicle River RV Park just outside town. 2015 summer trip map We’re a day early for the family reunion.  Once we got settled in the RV Park, we drove the car up to the reunion site to see if there is room to park the bus there. There is.  And, spoiler alert, the facility is fantastic!    We’ll see everyone tomorrow!  (And, as a bonus, we found an old rusty thing.) 
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Judy ate a bon-bon

 Chocolate in the evening might not be a great idea for sleep, but Judy has been waking up restless at 4am and wandering about.  She’ll settle in the recliner in the living room and go back to sleep.  She’d rather just sleep in bed but no, she’s the midnight wanderer.  It’s time to try something different. We stopped in at the local cannabis shop and asked them for their advice.  Edibles.  We bought a box of bon-bons for forty bucks.  She only ate one, but she got a little buzzed.  We watched the 1932 movie Tarzan the Ape Man.  She lost herself in a game of solitaire on the iPad.  Her head was still a little busy when we went to bed, but she slept through the night.  And then some.  She slept until ten and woke up feeling rested.  I guess it worked. Maybe half a bon-bon will do the job tonight.  
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Birds we saw from the boat

 Moving target.  Moving boat.  Not very good pictures, but we can tell what they are.  Tufted Puffins.  Well, it was easier to tell with binoculars. Pigeon guillemots. Rhinoceros auklets. Got a lot of them.    Common murre.