Yesterday a friend of mine arranged for us to go visit his Company that makes, well, we can’t really say what they make so let’s try this, dr_n_s for other countries military’s. It’s a highly classified place as they manufacture and sell to places like France, Sweden, Australia, Saudi Arabia and more. These high tech flying machines are all carbon fiber and cost between $1 Million and $3 Million dollars each and fly faster than the speed of sound. My friend was in Texas but he had his Vice President give us the royal tour. We had to provide our names before we arrived for a security check, lock up our cell phones upon arrival and wear badges with our names printed on them that were made up before we arrived. It was really interesting to see the place and understand this industry nobody even knows about. We saw dr_ne_ and mi_sl_s with logos of the countries they were going to along with jet and rocket engines. It’s so secret that they even make their own tools to build the things that they build. We were there for about 90 minutes and learned a lot. The boys had lots of really good questions as well and we’ll always remember it.
After lunch Harry came by as did Grandma Annette and Aunt Jean. They all visited with us until about 4 when we prepared to go to dinner. We headed over to Jeff and Debbies who are Lori’s cousins that are our age. Jeff is in insurance for big companies and has a bunch of toys. His main hobbies are old guitars, of which he has some really rare one worth tens of thousands of dollars that his dad bought 50 years ago, and sports cars. In his garage he had an old Jaguar XKE convertible, a Ferrari 328, a Porsche 914-6 GT which is a really rare car that used to race in the 24 Hours of LeMans, and a 2006 Ford GT which is about a half a million dollar car! He’s a really nice guy and he and I hit it off and Debbie is great too. Donnie and Amy, from Colfax where Harry lives, came down for dinner too. Donnie is Debbie’s brother so all 4 are technically our cousins. It was a really fun time at an Italian just restaurant like Dino’s in Denver but with really good food. These four are our favorite cousins of all we met.
Today I’m not sure what we’re doing but tomorrow morning early, the boys and I will head to San Francisco for our flight home. It’s like a rain forest here as they’ve had a ton of rain and everything is really green. Hope it’s warming up at home. That’s it, time for coffee, GB.