BACK HOME AGAIN

We are back in Alaska (thank goodness!) and I

am still trying to catch up on some rest. Seattle

was fun, busy, exhausting, smelly and beautiful

all at the same time. My camera is dying a slow

and painful death and it decided this trip to eat

every set of batteries I put into it.

Normally I take pictures of everything I see, 

but I ended up with just a handful out of all 

that we did.

My friend Jane and her sons picked us up

at Seatac and that was so amazingly nice

of her considering she hates to drive on

the freeway. She made a delicious lunch

for us and surprised some other good

friends of ours by inviting them also and

telling them she had a surprise for them.

Good food and good friends! Jane also

makes the best Mochas on the planet

and she treated me to one of those.

Everybody knows what this is, right? The

famous Space Needle in downtown Seattle.

It was built in 1962 and has 2 restaurants--

one at the top and one in the middle. We 

rode the elevator to the top and the view was

spectacular! The restaurant at the top slowly

rotates so that while you dine the scenery

changes constantly.

We also went to the Seattle Aquarium, the

Woodland Park Zoo, Pike Place Market,

Southcenter Mall, Zoopas, Mongolian

Grill, Pacific Science Center and The

Spaghetti Factory.

In between all of this we squeezed in

activities at the academy that we were

there to visit. We left Seattle on Monday

and went up to visit my mom and dad

for another week.

My old dog Reggie. A friend of mine has him

and he just turned 12 1/2 years old. He is

a huge German Shepard and one of the

best dogs we ever owned. I am afraid his

age is catching up with him now though.

He couldn't really hear us talking to him

and his eyes are mostly blue, but once he

smelled us he was rubbing and pushing

on us just like he used to do.

My friend's little boy and our Godchild.

Oh, he isn't cute or anything, is he?

I have never met him so I figured I

better make a trip over there and 

introduce myself. As you can tell he

 was totally impressed.

We ended the trip by getting most of

my cake supplies and things we can't

get here. Now I'm done shopping for

quite awhile. Whew.

When I got home I went to the grocery

store down the road and as I was

putting the groceries in my car a dog

in the truck next to mine was barking

like crazy. I looked to see what he was

barking at and there were 2 Humpback

Whales blowing right next to the store

parking lot.

Yep, it's good to be back.