Grans visits

Jason's mom came to visit us this last week of school/ first days of vacation and the weather jumped immediately from the50's to the 60's. Maybe we should get some more people from California to help us with the weather. During the first part of the week Amelia was in camp at Ravenna -Eckstein. She was worn out every day. One afternoon it got really quiet. It took us a while to notice, she had gone to bed and fallen asleep!

Grans took Amelia to the Build-a-bear store and she chose a pink leopard who's name is now "Piplup". Marlene got herself a new outfit for "Coco" and "Ghostene" is somewhere in the picture. We managed to cross a few things of our summer list. On Friday we went to ride a ferry. I like to ride the ferry; it get's you out of town and into a vacation mind set. It was a sunny day, but not very warm. We usually take the Edmonds - Kingston ferry, because the Edmonds waterfront is very nice to spent some time and play.

On Saturday we took Grans to breakfast and afterwards shower her Bothel Landing a little park with playground, museum and nature trails in - you guessed it - Bothel.

Last Days of School

The school year has come to an end and we are beginning to settle in for the "summer". At the beginning of June Marlene's school always has a Beach Day (see June blog 2007). While it was not very nice last year, it was definitely bad this year. It was around 50 F, pounding rain and wind blowing. But that did not hold us back. The June tide is very low and so we got to see many exciting sea creatures. We saw a life Moonsanil, sea stars of various sizes and colours, bright orange sea cucumbers, many different crabs, and we were sprayed by all kinds of clams.

Amelia ended school with a Picknick the same day (it was held indoors, because of the rain) and she went with a friend because I had agreed to accompany Marlene's class to the beach. Amelia had fun in her dance class, that ended as well. I think she has learnt a lot and we will definitely continue with that.

Another tradition at Marlene's school is "Field Day". Games are set up on the lower filed and the whole school has a day of fun. We were lucky that the sun was shining for that. It is wacky hair/hat day as well. This year Marlene got the presidents "hip to be fit" medal. Last year she had missed the requirements by 1 point, but this year she made it. She is very proud.

And to start the summer I got the girls some new dresses at the Sidewalk Sale in the University Village.

Junuary

No, I did not misspell, the official term is now "Junuary". (try to google this term, it is all over the net) It is so cold here. We went downtown on the bus today and I saw a lady wearing ear muffs (I, myself was wearing my winter coat!). It has been in den mid 5o's for a week now. Oh yeah, and it has been raining, too. Will we ever see spring or summer? To put it into perspective "The Seattle Times" headline read today "Colder Than Siberia". Turns out while we are setting low records for the daytime highs, it is about 10 degrees warmer in Alaska and even Siberia has us beat. When you drive to Spokane you have to bring snow chains, because it has been snowing up on the passes for the last few days and several hikers died on Mt. Rainier last weekend, because a blizzard dumped 2 feet of snow. This is June! It is really hard to feel sorry for people dying back East of heatstroke, when you have to run the heater all day, just to keep the house at 62 F!