What Fun!! A handful of us “Cheezpeepz” (frequenters of the website I Can Has Cheezburger) got together in Yakima, Washington this past weekend. I drove up Saturday morning. The drive was through an awful lot of empty countryside. North central Oregon is a high plateau that slowly turned from desert to irrigated grain fields. After miles and miles of seeing virtually no signs of habitation, the highway dropped down into the Columbia River valley. I crossed into Washington, and the highway climbed back up onto another arid plateau. After a fast food lunch in Goldendale, I arrived in Yakima around 1:30.
We had rooms booked at a motel just off the interstate so it was easy to find. We met there and sat around talking and munching on snacks all afternoon. It was so nice to get to know more of my cheesey friends. It is always interesting to put faces to people you have “talked” to, but never met. I had imagined Sweet Mother of Mars as a statuesque red-head, and Altosinger as a Cybill Sheperd lookalike. (Don’t ask me why, I couldn’t say.) And of course, I was wrong! You can see pitures of us at Yakima. Also there were Panther, Kiwican, Jamamakitty (who came to visit me here last month) and 2 dogs, 2 kids and a boyfriend. The dogs, kids and boyfriend were all well behaved. (Oddly enough, all of us gals were altitudinally challenged.) We went for a walk along the river and had dinner at a mexican restaurant, and more yakking back at the motel after dinner. I was so glad I went.
