08.13.09
Driving BACK to Seattle
Just a day of driving in the car... back to our "Base Hotel" in Seattle. We drove about 5 1/2 hours to get back. We stopped at Walmart in Portland, looking for a book. They didn't have it, so Ryan said, "Let's just check Target, it's 2 miles away" (we brought our GPS from home, which was INCREDIBLY handy!) So, we are in Target (in Portland) and we saw some of our friends from TAMPA!!! Can you believe that?!?!?! I will reiterate... life is NOT random! We "randomly ran into" Koral and Simone Bowman... Simone just "graduated" from Lee Elementary last year and her mama was the PTA president a couple of years ago and we have been friends ever since! Simone actually won our "McGregor-for-a-Day" auction a couple of years ago and they spent a fun filled evening at the movies with us! Isn't it CRAZY that we saw them?!?! I must say, if I was going to see Koral ANYWHERE, it would be in a Target! Ha!!!
Just as we came into Seattle, it started raining... the FIRST rain we had seen in nearly 2 weeks! Keep in mind, this area of our country sees more rain than ANYWHERE else! We were really blessed with GREAT weather.
Yet another Drive By Pick for dinner... Italian food at Casa Mia, and completely delicious! One last stop at Safeway to replenish our lunch supplies... Ryan took the kids swimming at the hotel while I repacked our suitcases for what I hoped was the LAST TIME! Off to bed...
08.14.09
Seattle...
Combining Days here, since there isn't NEARLY as much fun to share... Ryan took off for the airport around 10am (returning our rental car on his way)... the kids and I were going home the FOLLOWING day since our tickets were SO MUCH CHEAPER if we stayed another day (even with an extra hotel stay!). Since we had no transportation, we had planned on hanging around the hotel...
There was a VERY nice park across the street that we went to (Angle Lake Park) and the kids played on the monkey bars while I called my friend Ashlie (in the hospital recovering from surgery) and my mom, and my sisters... and texted Ryan. (You know, REALLY watching my kids at the park). Then they went swimming at the hotel... we ate a picnic lunch, then took showers and hung out watching TV, which they hadn't done much of the last 2 weeks! 
Walked back to the park and played for a while, then walked down the street and ordered a pizza for dinner and got Slurpee's from 7-11. Nice Healthy Dinner. My favorite part was the slurpee.
Got everyone settled in for bed and we were all whining about Ryan not being there! What babies we all were! We really missed him alot!
Up the next morning at 3:30am to get to the airport (via our hotel transportation shuttle) for our very early morning flight... and caught one last picture of the Elusive Mount Rainier, which was the Perfect End of our VERY FANTASTIC vacation!
Actually, going to Ti'Juana Flats when we got home, THEN Torrey coming over to spend the night was the PERFECT end of our Very Fantastic Vacation...
Actually, seeing Eli the next morning was the perfect... Ok, enough!
2 comments:
Excuse Me!!! You told Tracy and your father that you missed them most... what's this Ti'Juana Flats stuff?? AND Eli??? Cutest maybe but "most missed?" I don't think so!
That last picture is amazing! And I gotta say, Edgar is a bit disapointed that he wasn't the 'most missed'. He really is the most entertaining... :)
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