Visiting Carrie Rose in Spokane

May 21, 2007 Howard Johnson's Motel, Spokane, Washington

This morning Robert went with Scott to see the evidence of the big
floods of pre-history like the Missoula lake flood. While he was
doing that, I went to Safeway to stock items for the trip.

Robyn called after I got back from the store. She had given a
lecture at the local junior college and was back. She came over
and we walked to Starbucks for coffee.

She has a short-term GIS job paid for by a grant that her
economics professor has. She'll be gathering statistics on a
community in California. The question is whether a change in the
ethnicity of a community changes its polling. Should be an
interesting project.

Robert was back by the time Robyn and I got back. She stayed
for a little while.

We left Walla Walla about noon and were here, in Spokane and
settled by 4:30 PM

I called Carrie (my granddaughter by Amanda and her first
husband.) She arrived shortly after 5. She is completing her
Masters Degree in Mathematics. Her thesis is on Chaos theory.
I'm really proud of her because she has put her self though
school by working in Alaska summers and by a stint in the army
prior to that. She's a hard worker and I think will do well in
her chosen field. She loves teaching and is hoping to get a job
teaching at a junior college. Her preference is to teach at
Northern Idaho College in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. She has a
4.0 GPA and won the top award for Math majors.

Amanda, Rocky, Alyssum, Shane and Kathleen are all planning on
attending her graduation. I'd have liked to have done that, but
don't want to stick around for another two weeks and certainly
don't want to drive back to Spokane in two weeks. I was happy
to have a visit with her now although it would have been fun to
see the rest of her family, too.

The three of us went out to dinner at a near by Asian Restaurant
where we ordered much too much food. Carrie still had work to do
to finish her day so we said goodbye to her shortly after 7 PM
and she headed off loaded-down with take-out boxes.