Trip Highlights

Ally's favorite part: the ocean beach

Blake's favorite part: Alki

Andrew's favorite part: the Mariners game (shocking, huh?)

My favorite part: yes. all. thank you.

Best quote: "The biggest difference between Texas and Washington is that it rains all the time in Texas but not in Seattle." (said by Andrew during the first week....he did change his tune by the second week.)

Best food: tie between casino seafood and dad's salmon!

Worst part of trip: tie between the awful turbulance-filled flight back and having to leave on that awful turbulance-filled flight back in the first place (did I mention we had turbulance?)

Biggest job that didn't get done: Andrew trying to fill up the Sound with rocks.....and the ocean....and any other body of water that needs rocks thrown in it.

Number of items I realized I left: 46 and counting or so it seems.

Number of items I realized I took from mom's house (with permission): 1046 or so it seems.

Number of items I realized I took accidentally: 1 (sorry Tracy, I'll send your DVD back as soon as I can)

Biggest revelation: 9 kitties in one house may be a FEW too many. (but it sure is fun)

Best part about being home: my kitty has forgiven me even if they did spoil him at the kitty hotel. Proof: his favorite place to sleep is my kitchen counter, eeewwww. No kitties allowed where I prepare food.

We are back from our trip and had a great time. Kinda bummed about getting back into our boring routine but I guess vacations can't last forever. I'll post pictures as soon as I get the 400 or so photos off my camera.

Just had to tell you about our night really quick though. We were sitting around tonight doing nothing when the phone rang and a friend from church offered us 4 free Rangers tickets. Of course it was 6 and the game started at 7:30 but we decided to go ahead since we had no plans anyway. We even got a parking pass in the "good" parking area. Turns out the tickets were behind home plate, row 17 from the field, looking straight down the third base line. And it was only 80 out tonight. The little boy was in heaven and even Ally enjoyed it. (And we actually stayed for the end of the game....twice in 10 days.....wow.) All in all, a good family night.

(Oh, if I don't post for a while, blogger is trying to keep me out. It took me five times to log on and I was about to give up.)

This was the view from my back door today. If you look hard enough, you can see the neighbor's car. I didn't think I would ever say this, but PLEASE STOP RAINING.