Brief Update

Here is a quick update on our lives (quick as in I am writing this on my lunch break), because I know how much you all are dying for a new blog post. :)

Amy came to visit us over Memorial Day weekend and Bryan came this last weekend. Here is what those two weekends were like, in a brief summary and in no particular order:

2 Trips to the Space Needle
2 Trips the Aquarium
1 Harbor boat tour
1 Trip to the Flight Museum
1 Temple visit
Too many Oysters eaten (yuck!)
2 Tom Douglas's restaurant dinners (Lyle's and my favorite)
1 Ride on the ferris wheel
7 hours on a boat for whale watching (but at least we saw a hump back)
2 Trips to Pike Place
1 Molly Moon's Ice cream visit
1 Excursion to look for the Fremont Troll
At least 3 times circling on and around the bridge looking for the troll....seriously....
1 trip to the Pacific Science Center
1 trip to the EMP
2 Near death experiences accidentally heading up the wrong way on a poorly marked one way street, love downtown Seattle
1 time running along the pier getting drenched by rain
1000 pictures...probably, I really haven't counted
2 very tired hosts

There are probably many other things, but that list makes me tired just looking at it.

We are so glad that we have siblings who can and will come and visit us. Thanks for coming and having fun with us Bryan and Amy!

Pictures will be coming soon but between my job, Primary calling, cleaning after the visits, and our newly purchased gym memberships, I have been very very busy.

Here are a couple of pictures, just because. :)

Lyle's Birthday Weekend

Lyle is now officially 28! The poor guy has had to put up with a lot of joking from me about his old age. But true to his amazingness, he just laughed and joked along with me.

His birthday was on the 19th and I had the whole weekend off. We spent most of the day at the tulip festival. Despite the rain and mud, we had a good time. Then we stopped by PinkaBella cupcakes to get his birthday cupcakes and went to a new Gyro place for dinner.

You may have seen these pictures on Facebook already, but I love them, so here they are again!

The next day we headed down to Seattle to visit Pike Place. We wanted to get some fruit and fish. Lyle and I love Pike Place and we visit whenever we get a chance. Sorry there aren't any pictures, we headed down there in the afternoon and it was nearly impossible to get a picture of anything exciting. 

After wandering around, we headed down to pier 55 for our Tillicum Village cruze. The boat took us on a 45 minute ride to Blake Island. 

We were greeted with a mug of freshly steamed clams in nectar.... and we were allowed (even invited) to toss the shells on the ground and smash them.... You can see all of the shell pieces on the ground. 

  

 

They demonstrate the Native American traditional method for cooking Salmon and we were treated to a full meal, including the Salmon (yum!). There was also a show that explained some of the Native American History of the area.

Blake Island is protected land and the only resident is the ranger. These deer were just roaming freely. 

On the ride back home, we were treated to the great Seattle Skyline at night. My favorite part about living in this area!

(Sorry this picture isn't amazing! It's so hard to get a good picture on a rocking boat!) 

FYI - This tour is something you can upgrade a City Pass to, for those of you who want to come visit us. :)