And last year I wrote about our visit to the Salem, Oregon Applebee’s on Veteran’s Day with our friends and landlords, Betty and Ron. This year I invited two of Mike’s Marine friends to join us for lunch and let Applebee’s say thank you to them for their service. Unfortunately, they both cancelled at the last minute so Mike and I went without them and had a great time!
I love how they have the little USA flags flying and the “Welcome Veterans” painted on the front doors.
Mike struck up quite a conversation with our server, Elijah. He recently moved here from Kentucky and his dream is to buy a sailboat. That was all he needed to say…they yakked and yakked about different types of sailboats. And Mike told him all about the Center for Wooden Boats and Elijah plans to check it out and possibly become a volunteer there like Mike.
Part of the Applebee’s deal is to bring something that shows that the veteran served and a picture in uniform qualified. So there’s Mike in uniform, joining us for lunch - jaja. Thank you Mike and to all other Americans who are serving or have served our country!
2 comments:
i've been working a lot at the elementary school my kids attended. unfortunately, i was at another school on the day they were to have the veteran's day assembly, so i asked the principal if she would show chris' marine corps picture. i told her he was a pilchuck panther and of course she said yes. after the assembly she e-mailed me to say the kids enjoyed seeing the picture and had applauded. last night when i had dinner with some girlfriends, one of them said she had worked there that day and that the assembly was the best veteran's day assembly she'd ever attended. too bad i missed it.
glad you and mike were able to enjoy your lunch at applebee's. maybe someday if chris is around on veteran's day, he and i can go to applebee's. heck, maybe we can get steve to go and we can join you guys.
have a great weekend. we have nothing planned except to go see the full monty tomorrow in everett. any chance you and mike would like to join us?
take care,
teresa
Hi t - see my email to you...and that's very cool that Chris' pic was shown at his old school! Let's see how many Marines we can get together for next year's lunch.
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