Sunday in West Seattle & a photo shoot 7/27/08

We got to spend some time in West Seattle!

At Nat & Julia's

Rick & Julia... aww

The cooks

Those of us that were there for lunch except Anna had already left.
Rick & Julia, Brian & Carla, Steve & Candy
Mitra, Natalie
Sarah

Yes she is going to get on that with a skirt! :)

putting on their helmets

And they're off

just some pictures of the photo shoot

Rick & Julia

and again... :)

Standing carefully amongst someones flowers! oops! :D

Rick getting a kiss

walking away...

and walking back

Rick looking down Julias shirt... oh my! :)

there is a little bit of water in the background! :)

they have their helmets and they're almost ready to go!


Steven & I went down to Bryan & Porsches for supper on the way home from our Seattle weekend!

Bryan reading about the benefits of bamboo beach towels!

Steven & Cea playing

Bryan was doing moxa to Porsches feet so Cea wanted to do it too! So Candy and Porsche are getting their feet worked on! Cea was very careful! :) :)

Seafair 8k 7/26/08

Saturday evening was our first 8k at the Seafair Days in Seattle

Our biggest fans! :)
Bryan & Porsche & Cea came up to cheer for us!!
That meant A LOT!

Ready for the race!
Candy & Steven

Stevens race number! :)

And they're off

There we are!! :)

It was a costume run...
not a lot of runners in costume...
but this couple and baby were decked out!! :)

A pirate finishes

Us finishing! YAY! :)
Steven had just jumped and hit the sign..
Stevens time - 00:51:44.1
Candys time - 00:51:44.4

Glad to be done
Steven, Candy, Cea

Steven, Candy, Mircea & Bryan

I think Cea will be a runner! :)
Enjoying the oreos that were part of the refueling for after the run.


After the run Bryan & Porsche took us up to this yummy place called Taste of India to meet up with Kate and Dan..

Steven, Dan, Kate

Porsche, Bryan, Cea

Volunteer Park, U Dub, Gas Works Park, Ballard Street Fair 7/26/08

Saturday we started out our touring by heading over to Volunteer Park to climb the observation tower.

A picture of the tip of Mt Rainier
It just looks like its floating

The Space Needle from the observation tower

Some of the 107 stairs.. I was kinda enamored... cause this picture looks like it could be going up OR down!

Dan, Kate, Steven


On to the University of Washington
we walked around the campus to check it out!

Steven & Dan by the fountain

The cool library building

On to gas works park
where we have no pictures of the old gas work equipment. :) Not sure how that happened!

Dell was doing a promotion of their new colored laptops
so they laid out beach towels for people to take
those towels are HUGE!!

Dan trying to show us how the sun dial worked
(trying because the sun was not cooperating very well!)
(I think a sundial in Seattle is silly! A 'raindial' would be better! :) )

Kate taking a picture!

Dan helping Steven get the kite off the ground.

Steven & Kate taking a go at the sun dial!


On to Ballard Street fair!
A town that celebrates Swedish heritage.

The promised Alligator on a stick!
We were not believing it would be here... but it was! :)
We tried it! It's pretty good!

Steven in a little store with a very excited expression and THE CHOCOLATE! So delicious! :)

Alki Beach with Kate & Dan 7/25/08

On Friday afternoon we took the ferry to Seattle and met up with Kate and Dan.

After a delicious supper we headed down to Alki beach for a short walk... which turned into a LONG walk

an interesting house, with an old car and LOTS of flowers!

Kate, Dan & Steven

Beautiful sunset from Alki beach

we have to have a 'Seattle picture'
one with the space needle! :)

Supper with Bryan & Porsche 7/21/08

We went in to Tacoma to exchange my shoes, and Bryan & Porsche invited us on over to their place for supper.

It's nice only be an hour away from them instead of 12! :)

Cea dancing and entertaining us

Bryan playing the 'guitar/violin'
look at the look on his face!! :)

was a fun evening with few pictures! :(