A busy weekend, 7/10 to 12/2010, Part-1

Last weekend was a busy one for us. Stacy's brother had some family friends visiting from Kansas as well as their own oldest daughter from California, Stacy's brother and family used to live in Kansas until 1998, and while we didn't have to be too involved during the week, on the weekend we had to help 'entertain'! Not a problem at all they're really good people!

These two photos were taken on Sunday the 11th. While their oldest daughter was being taken back to the airport in Spokane for her flight back to California, all of the visitors came over to our place and we took them on a quad ride to one of the local mountains on the forest service roads. First photo was at the start. Just off the highway and the quads are off the trailer, everybody gets ready to go up the mountain.

Second photo was at a stop about 7 miles up on the way to the 15 mile top of the mountain. For me though, this was the end of the ride. The red Honda behind the first blue one, was having a problem making a squealing bearing kind of sound. We checked but couldn't see an obvious problem. We felt it would be better to take it back down now since it was at least still running well, except for the noise, so as all the rest continued on up I headed back down to the parking area. The quad ran fine all the way back, no squeal at all. But as I was riding it back and thought maybe all would be OK after all, so I tried to head back up to catch up with the group only to have the squeal come back VERY loud! But nothing on the way down? Oh well, we took it in on Monday and the shop could find no problem with it and it hasn't made the sound since that ride! Everybody had a good time though. At the top of the mountain you can see the entire valley and back towards Sandpoint too!

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