Saturday Night Now

It's Saturday night and Caryn and Joe just left for home, boy, we have had a great 2 days so far. I had mentioned in the last blog that Joe had called us from the hospital and that Caryn had broken her wrist while skiing. They got back into town around 3 and came by the coach before going home, we sat and visited awhile then they went home and then went over to their place around 5:30pm. We had a tour of their house, which is very nice, they sure had to do a lot to it to make it what it is today, great job you guys! We then drove over to the fairgrounds because they were having a food sampling called "The taste of Sierra" that the Bishop Chamber put on with a bunch of different restaurants. We got a good variety of foods to sample and a whole lot of different desserts. Thank goodness I was way too full to try too many of the desserts, notice I said "too many" I only tried 4 I think. Caryn was a trooper during this whole food sampling she only had one hand, thank goodness it was the left that was broke, watching her trying to hold a plate and eat was interesting.

Saturday we got together with them at the monster antique swap meet that was going on at the fairgrounds today. It seems this weekend there is a lot of stuff going on at the fairgrounds, home show, gem and mineral show, barnyard show, ect., Bishop is really a happening place :) After the swap meet Joe took us driving around to a bunch of the different lakes at the top of one mountain, with the snow all around us, it was really breath taking scenery. We stopped and had lunch then drove around some more, this place is really nice, maybe 10K people and not growing at all, which is something Dave and I wanted, a nice small community to live in, but it is still in California and that's what we don't want. We then went to their printing shop and got a tour of it, one hell of an operation they have there, and a great deal they got 3 years ago. My brother, Mike, would just love the stuff Joe has here, Mike you need to come up for a visit, and bring Trini. Of course, everyone in town knows Caryn and Joe so everywhere we go they have to stop and ask Caryn what happened to her. By the way, when she broke her wrist, she was on the easy part of the down hill slope and Joe was ahead of her so when she fell he didn't know anything about it. When he reached the bottom and waited a couple minutes and didn't see her he went right away and got help for her, he just knew she had to be hurt. As the rescue guy was going to take off in his snow mobile Caryn came down the hill and was holding her arm up. Since Joe didn't hear her or see her fall she had to pick herself up, get her skis, goggles, gloves and poles and still ski down the mountain, yea what a trooper. When they walked into the emergency room the check in person just looked at her and yelled to the staff in back they had a broken left wrist to take care of, Joe and Caryn didn't have to wait at all. OK so that's the skiing story.

After leaving the shop we went back to their place, then Dave and I went back to the coach. Later we went out for Chinese food and had a great meal together, tomorrow they said they had more places to show us, so we are looking forward to that.