Hampton Inn & Suites Seattle North/Lynnwood

... the pelicans were alternately skimming the water's surface and crashing into then emerging from the water as they fed on the early morning fish that were foolish enough to be so close to the surface. It was an amazing show and one that I could watch over and over again if given the opportunity. So now we're headed home and will hopefully not have too difficult of a time finding where Matt parked my pick-up (he used it while we were gone to move his and Julie's stuff ...

So we are finally packed... almost. Just a few last minute things to throw in at 5:00 when we wake up tomorrow. Our plane takes off at 7:55 and we're going to be at the airport at 4:30 if Beau has anything to say about it. :-) My backpack and Beau's are 23 lbs and 21lbs respectively, not counting the day packs. We didn't quite fit in the kitchen sink but it feels like we did. We're flying ...

... bus holding tight to our tickets because we figured these tickets would assist us for our trip home. We walked back to the Farmers Markets in Pike St, (this time Rick remembered the Camera)another quick walk through the markets across to the waterfront food places. Fish and chips, Hamburger & chips and a Crab bisque was the fare for the day. Ok enough we decided, leaving time to have a swim/sauna/shower and washing and if ...

... is finished. Accommodations: Columbia Gorge Hotel Golf on Friday morning: Indian Creek Golf Course Wine tour on Saturday afternoon: Hood River Tours Dinner Train on Saturday evening: Mt Hood Railroad Dinner Train

12/24/07-12/25/07 Christmas at the Feely's rivaled that of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Instead of Clark Griswold, Dick Feely, a Nobel Prize winner, ran the show...and did it with style! Throughout the night, there were frequent power outages due to the sheer mass of lighted displays. Also massive, was the holiday table. As it turns out the traditional table was stuck behind a boat in the garage. So, in order to ...

... an hour later. We got a taxi to our hostel in the downtown area and were assigned a bunk bed in a 4-bed room - our first dormitory experience! We went in and were met by a fellow South African from Cape Town who was there with her boyfriend. So that was lucky - they seemed really nice and normal! It was great to hear a South African accent again and to see Gill shampoo and Radox shower gel in the window sill...how small things remind you of home when you have been gone so long!

... Hardy lives in Nelson and we got an invite to join him for Christmas - what a wonderful gift! Thurs 9th Aug Packed up camp, said our farewells to Hardy - he was great company - Sunny day, went back to Paradise to hike Mt Rainier. On approach, got our 1st view of Mt Rainier - it was fantastic to see - took photos. For walk, took (2) walking poles, hats, jackets, gloves, went on Skyline Trail. Saw deer, 2 stags, Marmots. Trail all tarmaced & wide, chatted to hikers along the way. We ...

... would walk by, see the awesome new game we just invented, and buy it from us for $100 million, but it must have been his day off, cause we didn't see him. Jesus's friend Jugo works at Nintendo right across the street, so when Jesus was finished with his meeting we went on over and played every Nintendo console ever created...the wii, the ds, 64, snes, virtuaboy, nes, arcades, and the first ever console, a weird looking ...

... own an apartment above the market. Out here there were colorful vegetables all around us. I could see hot peppers innocently crowded around a display of vine tomatoes. Cloves of garlic hung in strings on the tops of the ceilings. Shoppers chatted with vendors and some quickly discussed a deal or bargain before bagging their customers' purchases. We wandered back to the center of the square towards the golden pig. There were a couple of musicians playing ...