Back from Seattle

Thank you to Don and Ann for helping us with the chickens and watering while we were gone to Seattle this week. We had a grand adventure with Jared at the Japan-Seattle Suzuki Institute. The days were full and busy, running from one end of campus to the other multiple times with multiple kids...but Jared did well and when asked, said his favorite part was our lunches in the university cafeteria (ha!). Laura made friends in every hallway and class, and had to be pried away from the puzzle/game corner in the afternoons. We toured a bit of Seattle with highlights being the Troll under the Freemont bridge (a stop I remember doing 20+ years ago with my parents), GasWorks Park, a quick stop at Pike Place Market (where Laura touched a rock fish eyeball - eww!), and Mt. Rainier National Park's Grove of the Patriarchs (our detour trip on the way home).

- Tom & Kathryn