Pearl Jam review

Since I promised a Pearl Jam review, and I know regular readers of the blog (both of ya) are on the edge of your seat, a Pearl Jam review it is. Saturday night, Jodi and Rob attended the previously mentioned Pearl Jam concert. Trey stayed at the motel. He was invited, but did not want to go. The first hour of the concert was almost exclusively new songs, some good, some not so good. Its hard to sell angst when you are a multi millionaire I guess. Pearl Jam is anti -pop, no light show, no curtain, they started the show by walking on stage and saying "good evening" then right into the music. The last hour was gold, solid gold. While they did not play at least 5 songs they should have, the last hour was one hit after another from the "old days." The place was completely sold out, and everyone was signing along. Everyone should see them at least once in life! The observation I would make, not to get all philosophical on ya, but Eddie Vedder looked old. A little gray in his beard and hair, a few wrinkles on his face. So, by extension if Eddie is old, we all are old. There is my philosophical thought of the day. (by the way, he really did wear boots and flannel, they haven't changed wardrobe in years)

Pearl Jam! Yes, Pearl Jam.

We plan on breaking out the flannel and the timerland boots this weekend. It is off to Pearl Jam on Saturday night. We are looking forward to this walk down memory lane. Most who know us know we like concerts and have for years, but somehow have missed Pearl Jam. Full report to follow.....

Football update

An update for Trey's football team. Since our last update, they have won two more games. In three games this year, they have not allowed the other team to score in any of them. They have scored at least 40 points in each game. Pretty good for a team with only 10 players. They play 8 man football.

Week that was

No new pictures, just old ones. On Thursday night, Wayne was nice enough to go with Rob, Trey and Trampis to the Boise St. Oregon game. It was fun and Boise won. Friday morning, Rob and Trey had to get up early and head to Imbler for Trey's first football game of the season. He played well and the team played well, they won 40-0! That evening, Jodi met them in LaGrande and they drove back to Boise for the weekend. Saturday was for shopping, we went to the Nike store, the Mall, Costco, and other stores. We were thinking of a movie, but couldn't find one, so we watched a football game and went to bed. Sunday was more of the same, back to the Nike store, then we went and checked out the new mall in Nampa near the car store. It really isn't done yet, all it has so far is JC Pennys and Sports Authority. Jodi and Rob went to a movie, Extract, only average. The whole family went to Outback for dinner. It was good but they really raised the prices. It cost $80 for the three of us to eat dinner. Then we went home and watched another football game. Monday, we basically just got ready and drove home. Pretty boring, huh!

Happy Birthday Trey!

Trey is 14. We celebrated his birthday Saturday. He wanted to do some shopping, so we took him to Best buy to buy some stuff for his I pod he got for his birthday. We then went to the movies, Post Grad. It was ok. We then went to a few more stores, then home to test out some of his new stuff. We got a birthday cake at Dairy Queen. Jodi planned on stopping at a few stores, then we were going to go to dinner and another movie. Well Jodi got a flat tire. The only place open was Sears to fix the tire, so Jodi went there. Trey was hungry and tired of waiting, so Rob and Trey ordered Pizza from Pizza Hut and that was the birthday dinner! She did get home in time to go to another movie Trey wanted to see, District 9, which he really liked. Then, off to bed. Happy birthday Trey!

Wildlife

Last weekend, we went to Boise via Sumpter. This is a fun trip to take in the summer and you often see wildlife. Jodi had her camera ready in case we saw another cougar, but no cougar. We did see this herd of deer and elk, mingling together on the lawn of a house in Sumpter. A herd of elk was there also, but this is the only picture that turned out.

High Lakes hike

This last weekend, we went for our annual hike in the high lakes. We planned on hiking to Chimney lake. We left the house with the plan to be at the trailhead at12:00 noon. We had two problems. The first problem was we went to the wrong trailhead. We turned around and then went to what we thought was the right spot. As we went about a mile, we realized we were on the trail to Maxwell lake, not Chimney lake. So, we turned around. We left at 3:00. That gave us about 5 hours to hike up the hill four miles then down the hill four miles. We made it to the lake at 5:45 stopped for about 15 minutes then turned around. We had to skip our planned jump in the lake, for two reasons: it was cold and we wanted to get back before dark! We made it back to the truck at 8:30, just after dark. When we left the trailhead, we figured it was too late for our annual dinner at the little drive in at Wallowa. However, much to our suprise, as we got there at 9:30, we were pleasantly suprised it was open! So, a nice way to top off the hike.