Greta's Visit part two

On the way up to my house we stopped at the Chukar Cherries factory in Prosser.  I am obsessed with their Chocolate Honey Pecans dusted in powdered sugar mmmm so good!  You can't actually have a tour of the facility but I feel like the store front has better prices than what the gift shops around town sell them for.  They also have a pretty good selection of other treat items and samples!  Our next stop was the Yakima museum where we ate at the old-fashioned soda fountain.  I love soda fountains and their real ice cream sundaes.  I have always thought It would have been fun to live in the 50's!  The museum was actually pretty neat--the children's section might have been my favorite part but there were a lot of really neat historical artifacts and a fascinating shoe exhibit.

Chukar Cherries factory

Soda Fountain

Aunt Greta and Evelyn

Keeping her store stocked up in fruits and vegetables.  She ran a tight ship--very organized!

Shoe Exhibit--over 600 pairs of high heels collected from one collector and sorted by eras!  Pretty awesome!

 After the museum we rented "The Vow" and picked up some veggies at the store for our kabobs for dinner.  When we got home Evelyn wanted to show Aunt Greta her favorite chicken named Oreo.  Greta kept laughing because she had never seen her little sister "me" chase a chicken!  There really isn't a graceful way to chase a chicken!

Oreo is on the left as you might have anticipated he is black and white like an oreo;)

The next morning we had a friend over for lunch along with her two girls.  She is a friend of Greta and I from high school Erica "Litchfield" Anderson.  She lives fairly close to me which makes me SO happy!  We ate lunch and chatted all afternoon.  We tried to snap a picture of us and had three little photographers taking our picture but their age experience might have limited the photo quality:) 

me, Erica, Greta

After visiting we drove back to Tri-cities to hang out with our Mom.  We went to a hot air balloon festival in Walla Walla.  Evelyn thought the balloons were HUGE!  She got to play on some of the toys that were there and went down the huge slide on a potato sack with Greta.  She also got to help put a hot air balloon away with Grandma Harvey.  After the festival we went to this nostalgic toy shop downtown, and then ate dinner at Olive which was really good!  We had an Asparagus bacon pizza that was delicious and then sampled their desserts and lavender truffles.  Jane was pretty tired at this point so it was a little difficult to relax and eat but we did our best to enjoy all the good food.  Walla Walla is  a cute town!

Walla Walla Balloon Festival

Putting the hot air balloon away

Greta and I

Playing at the toy store

On Mother's Day we got to go to church with our Mom.  She teaches a primary class and has always brought sugar cookies for her kids to frost and decorate for their Mom's on Mother's Day.  It's tradition!  It was so fun to see her class.  She is an amazing teacher and the kids are glued to her every word.  What a lovely Mother we have!  And what a "sweet" week we had--literally sweet like lots of sugar sweet but worth it! 

Mother's Day