Monday, August 23, 2010

Vacay Part 2

Wow, I have done a lot of stuff since Vacay. I can’t believe how busy August has been.

But down to business. Vacay part two-Sunday 8/8 to Monday 8/16-here we go

On Sunday, the 8th, day after the 1/2 marathon, I met up with some girls I met on Ravelry. We met up in Lake Forest Park, which is east of Edmonds, which is North Seattle. Wow. My sister came by and we had the most wonderful time. We met at a little mall type place that had a big commons area outside a bookstore, Third Place Books. Then we walked over the to Village Yarn and Teas, where I bought a drop spindle, some inexpensive roving to practice with, and we took this picture

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That’s Nancy, Martha, me and Julie. Loved it.

On the way home, I took some pictures on the Seattle skyline-while driving. I had the perfect shot and that huge roadplug RV got right next to me and ruined it-the irony being I probably shouldn’t have been taking pictures while driving anyway.

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Monday we went to Seattle to take Mother shopping.

Debbie chauffeured in the Mercedes (which, coincidentally, has become her code name around here).

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And gramma’s rode in back

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This store reminded me of my friend Angie-all about the purse

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We went to Pendleton and bought some fab clothes.

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Mother was quite exuberant

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And Debbie got a hat (I got a hooded sweater, but no picture)

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We had great lunch at the Athletic Club, and on the way home I got a picture of Safeco

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Tuesday was sister’s craft day at Debbie’s house.

She has a nice workspace downstairs and I started a Thimbleberries wall hanging from 2008 or so. Those projects do get behind.

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And we ate some of these

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I, once again, took pictures while driving. Although I stopped a couple of times when I took these

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I love the woods.

But I had to keep driving…..

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Wednesday it was time to go. We went out to dinner, and then posed for the goodbye pictures

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I couldn’t resist this shot-I told Debbie I had to take it so all my friends would know what I was talking about…

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After I got home, on Thursday AM, I rested up because Friday Laura, Mary and I went on a shop hop to 12 quilt stores in an over 300 mile radius.

We faced storm damage

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Tornado warnings

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And a little ditch issue.

We missed an exit and had to turn around. Mary, the navigator (illustrated below)

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Started telling Laura (the driver) that she couldn’t turnaround at this dirt road becauseDSC01801 - Copy

It said no U turn (merely a suggestion I told them) and there was a truck barreling down on us (I said it was the truck’s responsibility to watch out for us) and that we were going too fast (which I knew but since I was in the back I didn’t really care)

 Next thing, well, this happened

We hit the gravel and went in to the right of the sign which I thought we would hit but thanks to Laura’s split second reflexes we went wide by about 6 inches. Laura then floored it to avoid getting stuck in the ditch and came up and out the other side.

I thought it was a blast. Those up front-not so much. Hey, we ended up going back the right way. What’s the problem?

We shall not speak of it again.

We got to all 12 shops in one day. I hope we get to do it just the same way next year.

Saturday was the Western Days Stampede 10 K (6.1 mi). Hot humid and a horrible time. My friend Nina was there. She beat me again, by 3 minutes. I kept up with her for 4 miles, but in the end I had to walk so I lost some time.

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Is my hair sweaty enough?

Monday, my last day of vacay, was spent on another quilt hop, this time with the Pine Needles staff on a bus to the cities. We went on this bus at oh seven hundred.

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Marcia was our fearless leader

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I said I wouldn’t spend any money and ended up buying several cute things AND a skein of Opal yarn. What? Yep. It happened.

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Here’s the groupers. I so appreciated being invited. These people are very special to me and I was very glad to be a part of it.

And Tuesday, well, Tuesday, I went back to work. And got ready for Ragnar, the next big event.

 

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