The events of our trip are starting to fade away from the surface of my mind. I guess they're officially 'memories' now. In the present day, today, Nik is beginning week 2 of 7th grade and (gulp) Emalie started preschool this morning (another post to follow once I get caught up). It's a little hard to shift gears and remember those feelings and moments from over a month ago, but since I've left you hanging and we're still carefree on vacation in blog-world, I need to resume. Our final day in Seattle was like each of the preceding days....busy! We enjoyed a beautiful drive from Edmonds to West Seattle to meet cousin Emily and (second cousin?) Kelsey. We think the world of Emily (my dad's cousin's wife). I'd never met her before a family reunion several years back. She entered our world and our hearts that reunion and we've kept in contact since then. Our initial bond and conversations revolved around our adoption process for a little girl from China. How very long ago that was!! I'm happy to report now that our extended family has TWO Emily/Emalie's of Chinese descent. Aren't we so very lucky?! Anyway, Emily and Kelsey made the drive from Issaquah to West Seattle so we could spend some time together. It was a beautiful day and we were fortunate to have timed our meeting at the beach at a very low tide. The kids enjoyed exploring on the beach and asking questions to the volunteers from the Seattle Aquarium who were there as well. As you can imagine by now, I was in a very happy place standing there surrounded by family and nature's bounty.
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| Nothing more iconic than the Space Needle enveloped in fog. |
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| Driving over the bridge to West Seattle. Love and miss those ships. |
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| Kelsey, Emalie and Nikolas enjoying doughnuts that a super thoughtful Emily brought for them. |
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| Nik enjoying the awesome play equipment at the park. (The video I took is hilarious. It's stored somewhere on my phone....) |
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| The ferry from West Seattle to the peninsula. |
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| Exploring, exploring! |
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| Thank you for sending this pic to me, Emily! |
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| Lovely Emily. |
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| What a jellyfish! |
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| A child after my own heart. I wouldn't dare touch a snake, but I could definitely handle a baby starfish and crab. Nikolas LOVED the time at the beach. |
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| Emily and Me. |
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| I chose this particular park because it's located right next to Aunt Merle's old house in West Seattle. Merle was my dad's mom's sister. She let me stay with her while I did my internship with the WA State Ferries during my academy days. What wonderful memories I have from that time with Merle, as well as later when Sven and I lived on Whidbey. Merle's house is in the center of the picture elevated above the house on the beach. I'm so happy we were able to figure out which one it was! |
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| Merle's house from the street. I'll never forget riding with her back in those days. She'd gun it in reverse out of the driveway and, I swear, never look. Scared me to death every time she did it! It sure is funny in hindsight though. LOL..... |
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After our nice visit with Emily, we parted ways and our little family headed to the Seattle waterfront. We were in search of our pirogue place in the Market. Sadly, it's not a pirogue place anymore. But, it gave us the opportunity to visit the waterfront and Market one more time. I wish I could have bought some flowers like we used to do, but just no room in a trailer.... with a cat!
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I was on a serious crab cocktail kick during our time in Seattle.
This picture just makes me smile (and hungry....)! |
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| We ended our stay in Seattle hanging out at the brewery where Chris works. I think Sven AND Nikolas would like to work there, too! |
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| Sven's sister, Nina, and her husband, Chris. |
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| Nina and mom..... a fuzzy picture but cute mother/daughter moment! |
Moving on out. All aboard! Goodbye Seattle, for now, time to slow down the pace. Next stop: the Olympic Peninsula, specifically Sequim to see Kim!
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