Meet Baby Keaton Ray Lowery....for those of you that know our "Junior" this is his little one. Junior is a buddy of Chris' from work that began hanging out at the house and quickly become a family member... May of 2009 he got married to a wonderful girl and added this little one to the list of boys!!! 
This was taken the day after he was born. Little chunky monkey weighed 8 lbs 11 oz!! I went over this past weekend and got me some wonderful baby lovins!!
Eastern Washington...like around Moses Lake area...they do lots of farming in here. Next picture is what we called a Wind Tornado
Not sure what the technical real name is, but as you are driving, you see these in the dry fields...There is not a tractor or anything causing this, just the wind. You watch it for about 3 to 4 minutes, they start out small and then get larger and then disappear...
We stopped in Moses Lake and ate with my Aunt Judi and cousins on our way thru to Grams. FYI...if you ever are close to a Shari's restaurant, take a minute for pie...pretty good stuff and any kind imaginable...
We managed to dig up some Hens & Chicks to bring home. Some kind of plant Mom wanted & a few other ones. Then we were off to Ellensburg where my Aunt Sherri lives and where the family reunion was going to be held. On our way we stopped at Snoqualmie Falls
. Daddy was telling me all kinds of things about places around here and playing at the foot of the falls. He grew up in this little town.. I wish the day had been pretty, because I'm sure this would have been an awesome shot on a pretty sunny day. 
Not the greatest picture, but it turned out to be a beautiful Montana sunset. We drove all day & rode with lots of ear popping going on (especially thru the Continental Divide) and then the weather started getting bad. So the next town (which ended up getting to about 12:30 am) was Missoula, Montana & in the mountain outside our hotel room I saw this. 
Missoula from my understanding is a college town. Seemed to be a nice little town, of course which all we done was sleep for a few hours then to hit the road again on Sunday morning and from the looks of the map about 6-8 more hours until we are in the land of our family....
some more of Montana before the clouds cleared off. 
Now, let's make a quick trip thru Idaho
(for once I thought to take a state sign so I'd know what pictures belonged where)
The Great Escape (aka my buggy) is thankful for each and every break even if it is a short one for just a few pictures...now lets boogy on down the road to Washington!!! Not too much further now!!
Our first glimpse of them 
we're getting closer!! This quick passing pictures do not
even do it justice...just wait.. So after a long trip up the mountain we finally arrive. 
As you walk in these pillars each have a state's flag on it along with the date the state was admitted to the union. And you know, I had to take note of Mississippi 
This is the view from the lookout theater
There is a walking path 
around the bottom of the monument to be able to get some pictures. It's only like maybe a .34 mile walk around there, but let me tell you, the elevation make a big difference on a fluffy person. I was wore out. Along the way we found this little birch tree of some sort ( or so Daddy says) with the perfect rings around the bark. It was just one of those that caught your attention
Throughout the path, there are little places you can get some good shots 
. I felt like these were the 
best ones I had of each individual
It is truly breath taking. As I was taking my
pictures of each, Mom
would get ahead of me and find a nice little spot to sit and watch the wildlife...
Lots of squirrels & chipmunks around here. They know you can't bother them and believe me they were not scared of people.
Like me with the funny sun glasses!!
Some very nice shops in here and a lot of shops that had Sturgis related items in it. Which told me we were getting close to motorcycle city. Now back in the vehicle and we do actually pass the Sturgis on our way into Wyoming.
.. literally nothing 
you best be stopping because that is the only form of civilization till the next little town that may be miles away... every now and then you saw a little "town art"
or in this case some field art
...Looking from my side mirror back to where we just came...HOT...DRY...WINDY and let me tell you that 400 mile stretch had you...if you needed gas and were lucky enough to make it to one of the gas stations, you paid almost 40cents higher...hotel room in the one town was almost $90 for an Econo Lodge that wasn't nothing to it...
but it's now 4pm on Friday and we've been traveling for 24+ hours and we gladly took the Econo lodge hotel room, found a over priced Dairy Queen in the little town of Walls and called it an evening. And for the first time in forever, I was asleep by 7 pm. 
