Jen and Seafair

With the temperatures finally dropping (from our record highs of 103-106), my friend Jen drove up from Tacoma to spend the weekend with me.

We started out our weekend by watching North and South (the Elizabeth Gaskell version, not the story based on the American Civil War). Then Saturday morning we headed over to a park in Seattle near to where Seafair takes place. We sat on our beach towels playing Phase 10 for a while - she won. Then we moved our stuff down to the steps leading into the water and we got ready to watch the Seafair air show.

Here we are having fun and cooling off with our feet in the lake.


Then the show started and we watched as a cute little plane did acrobatics. Then a really big plane came and also did acrobatics, which seemed even more amazing because it looked like it should be just a whale trying to fly. But it was really quite graceful.

And then came the Blue Angels!!! Yes, some of them are upside-down in the lower right corner picture.


Growing up, we used to hear the Blue Angels every summer while they practiced for the Seafair air show. We would hear them screaming by and it would send us running outside to look for them. Sometimes we caught a glimpse of a second or third Blue Angel following the one we heard, or sometimes they would turn around in a formation and come screaming past on their way back to the lake area (where the air show officially takes place). So it was awesome to go see their show.

After that Jen and I went shopping. We finally found the movie she wanted (the same North and South that we started watching the night before) at the third Costco we went to. Yes, there are three Costco's within a reasonable distance of my house. Four actually. We celebrated our shopping success with Costco ice cream, and then we went on to another store where Jen found some really cute shirts. Another of our college roommates called while we were there, which was a great coincidence! Perfect timing, Amy! Then we picked up a Trader Joe's salad for dinner and had a musical evening around the piano. It was really cool to have someone in the house who could actually hit those high notes.

Sunday was more relaxing - we went to church and then we came home and finished North and South. Dan's brother and family came over too, and we played a few rounds of Ziggity. We had orange chicken for dinner and then Jen had to head home. I am so glad she could come up and visit!