Sunday, March 20, 2011

Spring Break in Washington State

Iris and I had Spring Break this last week.  We took advantage of it and went to visit my sister who lives in Bellingham, Washington!  I have been twice before to visit her but this, of course, is Iris first time to the Pacific Northwest!  Here is a highlight of the things we did.  Check facebook for more pictures because it will let me upload more than one pic at a time...as far as I know on this blog, I can only upload one pic at a time.  Ugh!  Anyways....here we are in Washington.

Alexis picked us up late Saturday night.  We staying with my cousin, her husband, and five boys.  Sad to say, and mom will be mad, but we DID NOT take pictures.  What was I thinking.
Sunday we gallavanted around Seattle.  First stop, Seattle's Famous Public Market.  We saw the fish throwing stand, bought a cute newborn onesie, ate yummy food, and enjoyed the light rain!


Oh and dont' forget....we got a drink at the First Starbuck's Store!

Then we crossed downtown (in a downpour) to see the Space Needle.  We did not go up, but we got some souveniers and had fun during the break in the rain taking pictures!

 I tihnk I have mentioned before that Iris is a huge fan of American Football, so she was very excited when we drove by Qwest Field where the Seahawks play. The season is over and it was late, but she was still excited!!!

 Now it is Monday and we cooked homemade pizza at Alexis' house.  Iris did not know you could do this...


 Then we took a short but elevated hike behind her house!  Here we are doing kung fu on the tree fallen to a bridge. 
 Tuesday we drove 50 miles up to Mount Baker, the local ski mountain to see the unusual snowfall.  In March alone, the mountain has gotten 10-12 foot of snow.  The two hours we were there it snowed 4-5 inches on us.  3 foot was predicted for the rest of the night!  Iris could not believe the 10 foot bank along the road.
 
 Alexis let Iris "borrow" her boots and skis to try her hand at skiing.  By skiing we mean Alexis walked up about 100 yards with skis over her shoulder while Iris followed akwardly in her snowboots.  Then Alexis gave her a crash course and walked alongside her down the bunny slope.  We did not buy lift passes nor stay long.  In fact, the lift closed shortly after her first "run."  She made 3 or 4 runs, had countless simple falls, but picked up quite well in her 20 minute ski session.
Wednesday =  Whatcom County Falls Park.  It is so green here.  Do you see the green moss on the bridge? 
 Later on Thursday - we took the 15 mile (but nearly one hour because of road blocks and a few wrong turns) to the Canadian Border.  We parked at the last gas station and walked towards the border to just get pictures.  We did not have the correct signature/papers to allow Iris to cross and come back to America.  We didn't want to lose her there!!!  Anyways, we got fun pictures of both flags and Iris was gitty that she got that close to Canada.
 Right after we turned around there was this great Washington State sign!  So we stopped again.  The next day, Thursday, was our long flight back to Texas.  I guess Shawn and I are going to have to drive to the Oklahoma border before she leaves and come back to find Texas signs like this!

I will leave you with one of the ski videos!  Enjoy!



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