Victoria B.C.

Today we took a ferry from Seattle to Victoria B.C. What a gorgeous day! We had a great time on the ferry. We played a card game called hand and foot the whole way there. I found out I have a great love for that game. I can't wait to play again.

Christy and I on the ferry, just outside of Seattle.

This is Christy and Sharon at our little table on the ferry.

Famous Hotel called 'The Empress' in Victoria. I love the ivy growing on the hotel. The Parliament building in Victoria

My first time at the gardens. Must warn you, tons of pics ahead.....

I thought this next shot was completely appropriate. Jack definitely controls things in our home!

Night shots as we are leaving Victoria. What a great day! It was fantastic! What a great day.

Trying to get some night shots of Seattle from the ferry, but it was so incredibly cold outside that I could not hold my hand steady. This is what we get!

Monday in Seattle

Today we enjoyed the morning just playing in downtown Seattle. Shopping and enjoying ourselves. I swear we walked 10 miles today just exploring. It was another gorgeous day here. I can't help but think how lucky we are to have such fantastic weather.
This afternoon, we went on a duck tour. It is in an old WW2 duck car/boat. It was so much fun and it was great to learn a lot more about Seattle.

Me and Christy on the Duck Tour.

Joan and Sharon on the Duck TourThe little green house on the right of the sailboats is Tom Hanks house in Sleepless in Seattle.

I absolutely love city views and Seattle can't go wrong! It is such a beautiful city.

A lot of people live on Lake Union. It is cool to see all the houses on the lake. What a cool place to live.

Today was such a great day. So much fun to see the sights of Seattle. I thought this was a beautiful fall pic to end the day.

Football in Seattle

For those of you who know me well, you know I am a die hard football fan. We decided to get tickets to the Seahawks game while we were in Seattle. What an absolute blast!! They are not even my favorite team and I could not have enjoyed the game anymore than I did.....unless the guy in front of me would have fallen into a pit of fire never to return again. (he stood the entire game). So annoying!
The Seahawks won the game 28-0. It was so incredibly much fun. I loved our seats too, because everytime Seattle scored, all the guys around us would high five all of us. It was a rowdy section and tons of fun! This is a view of downtown Seattle from Quest field. It was such a beautiful day!

Saturday in Seattle

This morning we headed to the Pikes Place Market. We did a little walking around and then ate breakfast in a little place that was in the movie Sleepless in Seattle. It was a fun place that had great views of the water around Seattle. I absolutely love this little market, and if I lived in Seattle would frequent this place often. They had the most beautiful fruit and veggies for sale. I bought an apple to eat that was the biggest apple I have ever seen. I don't remember the name of it, but it was delicious! They also had avocados the size of pineapples. What a great place to shop!
After playing at the Market, we headed up to the Paramount theater and saw Wicked! I think that is one of my all time favorite shows. I don't think we could have had better seats! We were on the 2nd row in the middle! It was so fantastic! I don't think I can ever see a show again with seats farther back than row 1o. You just can't beat being that close to the action!

Girls Trip to Seattle

My friends Sharon, Joan, and Christy and I headed to Seattle for a much needed getaway. Two of our friends, Shasta and Courtney live in Seattle so we met them there. What a great trip! The weather was absolutely fantastic and we had a blast!

We got to Seattle at about 6 pm today and we first headed to our hotel. It was right in the center of downtown in the perfect location! Then we headed to a fantastic little Italian joint for dinner. Yummy!

After dinner, we headed out and played in the town and saw some sights. What a great night with great friends!

I wouldn't normally do this, but......

So I wouldn't normally talk about a dream in my blog post, but I just can't help myself. I know how people are. You start telling them about a dream you had and, snooze......they just immediately tune out. And I don't blame them. But this one was different. For one thing, I remember the dream so incredibly vividly, which is kind of unusual for me. Secondly, it is a little strange.
My dream starts out with my friends and I on a ski vacation. We are on the slopes having the time of our lives. I have my camelbak on my back, and inside of my camelbak is $100 in cash, my expensive new phone and credit cards. Well, I took a break while skiing down one of the hills and took my camelbak off.
I did not realize until later when I was trying to buy food that my camelbak was gone. I had left it on the slope where I had taken my break. I frantically tried to find it myself with no luck. I went to the lost and found of the ski resort and there was my camelbak. Money and everything still inside of it. I remember thanking the person and telling them how impressed I was that there were still honest people in this world.
I just thought it was such an interesting dream and wanted to remember it. Since this is my journal, into the blog it goes!

Wedding in Wickenburg.....AZ

Lisa and Curt were married today at the Wickenburg Country Club. The ceremony was at 7pm and it was in a beautiful location. There were a few hitches....not in their wedding, but for me. Of course as I show up, I run into a man who is a worker for her step dad. He is probably in his 60s and is missing a few teeth. He immediately leaves the girl that he came with and latches on to me. He will not leave me alone, and insists on sitting next to me at the wedding. Eeeek. Completely disgusting! Also, as we are all sitting there waiting for the ceremony to start, a side winder snake makes it's way across the deck where we are all sitting. Eeeek. Even more disgusting......and poisonous! Now I can't even focus on anything but the snake and creepy guy next to me. Why couldn't you just stay with your date?!?!
The ceremony was nice and then after there was dinner and dancing. I had a great time talking with Lisa and Curt's friends. They had me practically convinced to move to Lincoln and work with them in the ER they all work in. It was a lot of fun. Congrats Lisa and Curt.

Water Park in AZ

I am here in the toasty AZ visiting the nephews and having a fantastic time! Today we went to a waterpark and had an absolute blast. They actually had a cooling trend this week and instead of being 115, it was only 101 today. Aaahhh, thank heavens for cooling trends. I think I would die! We had a great time playing in the water.

Girls day out at Red Butte

Missy, Imo and I had a girls day out at Red Butte Gardens. We started out at Einsteins and got bagel sandwiches for breakfast. We sat and chatted there for quite a while before we headed up to the gardens. It was an absolutely beautiful day and we had a great time. This first pic is of a rattlesnake that we saw. Look closely. The rest are some of the beautiful flowers we saw while there. It was amazing!