Barbie was here

So our time in seattle is coming to an end and i know i have promised over and over again that i would keepup with the blogs, but there is so much that i want to do on my days off that i have not been able to put myself in front of the computer.

Since it is 10:30 at night and i promise more than one person I would update here i go....

So over memorial day weekend barbie came to visit! We picked her up late at night and as always went for our favorite Belltown Pizza! Tony had to work at 7am the next day so we made it a short night, which was fine, because lil' Barb was up all stinkin' day. In the morning i got up to drive tony to work and when i got home, our visitor was already dressed and ready to go. SO the two of us went off for a fantastic breakfast at one of our favorite places to go, Bacca. They make these hand squeezed amazing mixtures of juices that are so fresh you feel like there might be sticks from the trees in it :)

After breakfast we walked around Pike Place market for a minute and i tried to give her the lay of the land before i had to get to work at 11. The next few days after that we had off.

On saturday it looked like rain, so we didn't go hiking like we planned. Instead tony stayed home to watch either a hockey game or a basketball game and barbie and i went out to enjoy the city, mostly downtown. Once the game was over we picked up tony and went to dinner at bamboo garden, another one of my favorite veggie chinese places to eat. Barb liked it and we all shared each other's food, she particularly enjoyed the 'chicken' soy balls :)

After dinner, since we save a little room, we walked to the chocolate box to get some delicious gelato!!!!

The next day we got up nice and early, but still missed the ferry to bremerton island. So we took the next one to Bainbridge and from there drove to the Dungenese spit. This is where Barbie decided that -in not so many words- that i suck :)

we went on a 5 mile hike on the beach. It doesn't sound like a big deal, but it is a sandbar that separates the san juan straits with a bay and so the size of the sandbar gets smaller the longer you are there, and it is not the greatest surface for hiking. In otherwords a mear 5 mile hike takes 3 hours! It was really fun and then we got tired.. i also had to go pee, and the last time that Tony and i hiked it alone, there was no one around, so you could pretty much just go.

Once we got back to the car, we had some snacks and were going to go up the mountains, until we found this crazy zoo like place.

It was called the Olympic pennisula game farm. It was someone's personal property that had saved/bought/who knows what a bunch of huge animals ( like a white rhino, zebras, yak, bison, grizzly and black bear) and pretty much let them roam free while you drive your car through it. Well, the rhino and the bear, along with tigers, lions and wolves were in cages, but everything else was just hanging out. It was cool, but freaked me out a bit since the zebra were right next to my car trying to get food from us ( even though we weren't trying to feed them). We drove through that and then made the trek back home.

The next day was memorial day and we were all pretty pooped from the last day's hike so we laid low. Although i promised barbie that i would take her to the mountains and i am glad that i waited until that day.

When we were driving up there, it began to rain REALLY hard, which it never does here. For real, it rains but never like a good hard Michigan rain. Once we were about a half an hour from my place we saw the most beautiful doulbe rainbow. so we pulled off to the closest exit and got some great photos.

Unfortunately i had to work the next morning, but i got out in time for tony and barb to pick me up and we all got dinner together before she had to get on her flight. I was praying that her flight was canceled so we could hang a few more days, but alas, the only time the plane isn't full is when we were all hoping that it was.

I had so much fun when she was here! But as soon as she left it was back to work-BOOO