Peter Buchanan, Joan's son, organized a shortish and doable hike in Rocky Mountain National Park, just a hop-skip and a jump from the cabin. The park is 100 years old this year. We took two vehicles - the Prius held 7 adults thanks to Sam fitting in the trunk and Betsy sitting on Gene's lap! We took the Green Mountain Trail up to the Big Meadows.
Here we are going up with Diane Williams and Mark Zivkovich at the end of our group:
Leslie Zivkovich Graham steps into the meadows--there is a mountain stream running through the meadow. Leslie and her husband Jim Graham live in Wickliffe, OH - and her mother, Lucy, lives with them when she isn't wintering elsewhere.
Clay Williams says he'll pay $10 to the first person who immerses himself in the stream - that was Sam Steele, Betsy Buchanan's son (Joan's grandson).
He was followed by Peter Buchanan and Gene - who almost lost his glasses.
Here on a log over the stream sits Betsy Buchanan and Gene Blanchard with Betsy's daughter Leana Smith behind. Leana will be attending college in Fulton, MO. I hope to connect with her when we go to St. Louis in Oct.
Diane and Clay Williams, below are from Sand Point, Idaho. Notice he isn't drenched but he is lighter by $10.
Diane & Clay brought the Cards Against Humanity game that we would play later.....Clay is the son of Pinky's daughter, Ruth "Ruthie" Owens. Ruthie was musical and played stringed instruments in groups. Joan showed a slide show from her memorial and she looked like she really enjoyed being a musician. Clay is a finish carpenter and Diane works for an environmental engineering company and have been married for 27 years. They were both originally from Cleveland and decided they wanted to move to Idaho. They lived off the grid for 8 years! Clay met Diane in Cleveland through a mutual friend of Leslie Zivkovich Graham-Clay's first cousin (daughter of Lucille). They had driven through Idaho and decided they wanted to live there and moved there from Cleveland.
A group photo of the cousins.
Standing in back - Sam Steele and Leana Smith (children of Betsy Buchanan); Betsy Buchanan, and Thea Zesk (Peter's partner). Front: Clay Williams, Peter Buchanan, Diane Williams, Gene Blanchard (Betsy's partner).
We almost all made it down -much easier than up-before the rain came-it rained a bit every day.
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