Hot Day in Walla Walla

It is hot today and a good day to be sitting still, with air conditioners running full bore.  At 6:45 PM it is 100 Degrees, and starting to drop a little. We had another great day with Gary and Nancy with our first stop at the Farmers Market.  Cyndy wanted to get some cherries, so she was all over the place sampling cherries.

This tree is called a Linden Tree and what a great smell, they grow on both sides of mountain, but I don't ever remember see any in the Puget Sound area.

You just stand any where near this tree and it has a great fragrance, wish I could bottle it.

 They say in the next few weeks this area will be a lot more packet with farm vendors.  It only took us about 1/2 hour and we were on our way out. Next it was time to for lunch, you know we need to eat also.  So today we went to La Casita Family Mexican Restaurant.  We had a great lunch and great company. Cyndy & I had a great Taco Salad, and I can remember what Gary & Nancy had, they said theirs were good also.  They come to this restaurant a lot and enjoy the food.
Next stop was right across the hall to the Antique Mall.  It is always fun walking through these malls and reflecting back in history of things we use to have when kids.

I think Cyndy could send hours in here walking around.

I liked this wall hanging.

I can remember when my Grandfather had one of these wood working tool box's.

The price they are asking for these things that when we were kids we use to take them out and shoot at them with a 22 rifle.  I should of saved them after shooting them full of holes and they may of been worth more money, what do you think.
After about and hour or so we head out to Whitman Mission National Historic Site. For 11 years, Marcus and Narcissa Whitman labored among the Cayuse Indians as missionaries, teachers, and pioneer on the American frontier.  Oregon Trail emigrants streamed past the mission. A measles epidemic in 1847 led to violence, driving a few Cayuse to kill the Whitmans.

 Yep got Cyndy looking into the back of the modern covered wagon of the 1840's, this fine RV could take you all the way from St. Louis to the Oregon Coast in less than a year and carry all your life long belongings.  And don't forget all the kids where in here to or walking along side the wagon.

 This pond is suppose to be full turtles but it was to hot and we didn't find one, but did find this guy taking a picture of something.

 Cyndy & Nancy walked by the old mission grounds here in the park.

It was another nice day exploring Walla Walla and spending quality time with Nancy & Gary.  We had a great time talking about the old days up at our Grandma's and Grandpa's place in Puyallup.  I am looking forward to more time just visiting with them before we head out in a couple of days.