Tuxedoed Two.

...aren't we a sharp lookin' couple!! :)
Thanks Ben de Wen! You made us laugh.

tiny panorama

A tiny picture of the big adventure to Port Renfrew with Elaine when she visited us here on the island. We had a fabuous time exlploring Botanical Beach and looking at all the sea creatures in the tide pools. today we plan to go to the northern tip or close to it...as far as the road will go. i am supposed to be packing up but alas i am distracted, first by the gorgeous dayoutside and now by blogging. i love summer :o)

Seattle

All it took was three days…three days of Seattle’s legendary ‘come in from the rain’ weather combined with an overabundance of great coffee shops more than willing to accommodate us with a place to come into, to get me hooked. Throughout our stay, as we enjoyed the sights, sounds and mocha houses of this beautiful city, there was a sinister java worm coring its way toward that little comfort seat deep inside my being. By the end of our stay, that worm had not only taken up residence on my comfort chair but had established a roaring business serving up tall double shot americanos. So there you have it, I have developed an insatiable appetite for the simple combination of fresh muffins and good coffee. While some individuals sharing my predicament may suffer from moments of hopelessness and defeat, I have decided to don my mocha coloured glasses and assume a positive outlook on my present state. The way I see it, I have the exclusive distinction of being the only backhoe operator in the city of Victoria bouncing down the road while consuming gourmet muffins and tall double shot americanos.

During our time in Seattle, we enjoyed Bethany’s wonderful hospitality as she let us stay in her studio apartment. This view of the city can be found a few blocks from her home in beautiful Queen Anne.

When we weren’t grooming our coffee addictions we occupied ourselves playing “Where’s Waldo” TM.

No trip to Seattle would be complete without a visit to Pike Place Market. This historic market boasts many attractions including a seafood stand whose gimmick is to throw the to-be-purchased fish from the iced display racks through the air to a waiting employee behind the counter where it is weighed and wrapped. A rough estimate of the ratio of actual paying customers to tourists waiting to snap a picture of an airborne salmon is about 1:200. If flying fish (or taking pictures of flying fish) isn’t your thing you can visit the original, and I repeat, the original Starbucks complete with shoulder to shoulder people clamoring to purchase a piece of Starbucks memorabilia emblazoned with the original Starbucks logo and a stamp signifying that the item was indeed bought at the original, and I repeat, the original Starbucks. And finally if soaring seafood or frenzied merchandizing aren’t your thing you can spend many hours wandering in and out of countless unique shops and ogling the bounty of fresh fruit and vegetables offered in the farmers market section.

Or you can just goof off…..

My Family

Do you remember being in grade school and labouring over your assignment to write about your family. How proud you were to tell about your mom and dad and all your brothers and sisters? And then after diligently writing the four complete sentences mandatory for your paper with the one-inch lines, you got to draw a picture in the big open space on the top half. Hmmmm....this is my slightly more sophisticated version but with the same peacock pride. Being the little squirt with all my big sisters has always just been the way it's been. We all find ourselves in a particular place in a family and somehow we grow used to that place and used to the surroundings and used to the culture.
This is my family now. I am not so little. I found myself in this new place of being older and laughing and goofying off with my sisters all together. We had a fabulous get-together mid-May - with just the sisters and mom. Thanks all for coming! It was really amazing. The time to be with you all...my sisters, all together, just us...and not be the "baby". - although, yes, dear mom & dad I will always be the baby to you. :o) It was fun to laugh, joke and be goofy together and talk, share and learn of one another. And it was a good time of seeing God's grace on our lives and how He binds us together with His love and that grace though we are so far apart.
YAY! I love you all!

Coming soon...

...an update about all the fabulous adventures we've been taking in..here's our fab shot of Chicago from the Navy Pier ferris wheel....dudermykota!