thanksgiving on a boat

For Thanksgiving dinner, Dan, Dad, Jeff and I went on the Arogosy cruise of Elliot Bay in Seattle.

A pic I snapped on the walk to the pier.

The second course:

and we are still docked.

The best pic I could muster out of these men:

our unusually busy weekend

FRIDAY:
Jeff very sneakily left work early to go buy me flowers without my knowing. I made chocolate covered strawberries and chocolate cake which we had after an awesome meal at one of our favorites - Lanna Thai.

and I got a little picture happy :)

SATURDAY:
We drove up to Silver Lake to meet a bunch of friends and on the way stopped by the river property that my grandma and aunt own. The amount of mole hills was surprising.

The river is fairly easy to cross these days.

Once we got to Silver Lake we had to go out since it was frozen over. Of course we had to ignore/avoid a few signs that warned us not to. (But it was safe, mom, really!)

A large crack in the ice...

Part of the lake that we didn't venture onto.

Once everyone showed up we had a fun time chatting, playing games etc. Sarah and Kateen made everyone valentines, which were very impressive.

SUNDAY:
We met up for meeting and a potluck at Gerald and Angela's.

Then we drove to the boardwalk and strolled enjoying the rare sunny day.

Laura, Jolyn, Krindee, Rian, Kim

Becca, Jolyn and Krindee

MONDAY:
We drove up to Mt Baker and went hiking.

Jill and Toriana

Mr. Trunky, Becca and Kateen

Laura and Craig

Kateen

Jolyn

Justin

so much fog

The weather has been fairly nasty. I haven't been warm in a while. And everything broke. The microwave, lawnmower (well it broke a while ago), fridge, dryer... So our landlord who is in Italy is trying to fix everything via his dad - it is slow going. All this assures me that I can wait to own a house and prolong the responsibility of fixing everything that goes wrong. I am looking forward to moving back into a snug little apartment with just a few things to make it home. :)

So with the bad weather, Laura's prompting and mom's guidance (and supplies) I have begun to knit. I have finished two scarves and have started a third. I even bought some fancy yarn to start another more complicated project, but it is still sitting in the bag, awaiting my confidence.

Here is to one long piece of nothing that can be fantastically made into something useful. Whoever came up with knitting had a fabulous imagination.

pt. defiance zoo & zoolights

The story here is that the tiger first glared into my eyes from behind the glass, then turned suddenly, stood on his hind legs and peed on the glass right where I was (or used to be..even with the glass I scrambled out of there!).

L & R checking out the otters.

We spent a long time at the carousel, I used the 'burst' option to get the photos. I have a whole collection of photos that could be made into a movie now. :)

If I had ridden, I would have nabbed the zebra...

The 'Lovers Tub'. It was also in the carousel house, we got dizzy spinning 'round.

The purple tree is my favorite every time we go. This is how people should do trees (not necessarily these colors however)

Taking a break in the aquarium. It was really cold still.

Watching the sharks.
Dancing around the fire: