Plaza By The Green - A Best Western Hotel Kent

... hatte ich vor ein paar Wochen schonmal kurz kennengelernt. Die die Leute scheinen einem hier schnell zu vertrauen, und so gings mit drei Kindern und zwei Hunden im Schlepptau für nen Nachmittag in den Park. Eine seeehr anstrengende Arbeit. ;)

Ansonsten drehte sich natürlich wie immer viel um's Essen. Anlässe gab es immer. So feierte ein Freund seinen 30. Geburtstag und die Geburt seines Sohnes, eine Freundin feierte ihren Abschied aus Seattle ...

... to get freshly baked "rosetti" or hard rolls with soft warm bread inside. I remember putting butter on the hot bread and dipping it into my cappucino. What a great way to start the morning. I had a habit of carving out the ...

Usually I wouldn'tt blog about the random, and usually boring, things that I'd do between getting up and catching the plane, but this was just too perfect. After breakfast, we both wanted to get a little activity in before sitting on a plane for 9 hours. We thought we might hit a park, but after walking from breakfast to the car, be both agreed it was too cold for that to be enjoyable. So we decided we'd head over to ...

Good flight on Virgin America into SeaTac. Peri picked us up and headed out to get some gourmet pizza at Pagliacci's on 15th.

... Music Project (Jimmy Hendrix was born in Seattle) and the Science Fiction museum (lots of Asimov, Star Wars, Star Trek, Jetsons, Matrix... you name it, they've got memorabilia!) We also visited the world's smallest national park - a building in Seattle city dedicated to the Klondike and the gold rush to Alaska. In the Seattle airport now - see you in Calgary!! ____________________________

... a slow and steady process of building up to the 8 feedings a day he is required to be able to do before going home. As of yesterday - Kai definitely has 2 more weeks in the hospital before they think about sending him home.   You may hear that and wonder how Sheryl and Alex are handling that. Their biggest concern and focus is that Kai become strong and healthy. When it is right for him to come home they will jump for joy and celebrate. They would love to have him home, they ...

... surgery or from an air pocket in the tumor? Don't know. Over the next 48 hours Mark's temperature is up-down-up-down, though he never reached 103 again. We're not comfy returning to the island until his temp stabilizes. Ahhhh the antibiotic kicked the infection, Sat 1/26 we're able to go home and sleep in our bed for a night. Jan 28 - Feb 1 Amazing how many things need to happen before you can actually begin treatment. This week we met with the ...

... an award winning ecolodge in central Nicaragua. It's not posh by any stretch of the imagination (the ad boasts that they have "electricity, flush toilets, sinks and showers" in the cabins), but we're looking forward to it after what is sure to be a chaotic 4 weeks. We've signed up for the 5 day birdwatching package; we'll spend each day out with ...

... through with it, is huge to me. I found my thoughts always returning to this theme (I'd say on a two-year cycle), and I get the feeling that I will have a hard time really moving on with life until I do this. So even the act of leaving is a challenge. I don't need to climb mountains or be adopted by some Thai village to feel challenged. Back to making lists and checking things off lists... and hopefully sleep.

What an adventure! Driving up to Seattle with Kayleigh on a roadtrip! I'm staying with her family and am having an absolute blast! They're so warm and welcoming despite me being some scruffy aussie dude! Kayleigh's about to head off to university but was kind enough to take me around Seattle. We purchased a book of discount tickets online that gave us entry into numerous Seattle attractions. On our first ...