Hey Y'all. That's weird, I get back from Washington [state] and I'm speaking with a Texian accent. lol. Well, some of you may know that about two weeks ago we had about 12 extra kids over at our house as there parents were up at a Home school conference, Mache. It was fun and crazy. We had all of them in our living room and this is how it looked. 
Here are some of them at the table eating pancakes. It was amazing how we were able to fit them all around it! I couldn't even fit them all in this picture!!! :)
Since I was playing that night at a coffee shop in Osceola, we got to do our hair. Here are Grace and Molly O'Connor, our cousins, with their hair up in what we call a "Birthday Bow." 
And, as I mentioned, I had gone to Washington. I actually went there with my mom on business, but it was awesome!!! I have never been on an airplane before, and it was great (except when I really had to go to the bathroom on take-off and wasn't aloud to!)! We also brought "Camille" with. But it we kind of smuggled her in! :) lol.
I was totally in awe of the magnificence of the land from the plane! I cant believe that God could have created all that! But he did! Wow! It is so amazing! 
It was cool how there were some places full of snow and some bright green! This was a small chunk of snow that I took a picture of. 
Some mountains from on high. I believe that these were the Cascade Mountains or somewhere near there. We landed in SeaTac, WA at 1:30 p.m. Which was very confusing given the fact we left Minneapolis at 11a.m. and it was a 3 hour flight and it would have been 3:30p.m. when we arrived there...Man, that is really confusing! 
It was awesome, though! We had know idea of direction when we landed so we wouldn't have known where we were going to go, though we did have a map Jessica Wilson "hand wrote" out for us. So we went to go get our rental car once we had landed, but they wouldn't let us have one!! So we had to wait for two hours for my dad, who was in Minnesota, to get everything straightened out! It got to be sooooo long! I just sat there in mental shock thinking: "Whoa, we are going to be stranded here, in the Seattle airport, with no sense of where the highway was and no way home!!!!" I was freaked...
We finally did get a car, a Minnie van actually, and headed off to Squim, WA to meet the Hines family. It was an amazing drive!! Awesome views; it was amazing how the scenery can change from lush, green hills to mush, snow hills. 
After we spent some time at the Hines' we went out for diner at Applebees; just mom and I. I had a Margarita, which was interesting...and Camille had a Martini. lol. :)
We stayed right next to the Olympic Mountains, which was SO AWESOME!! We were lucky enough to see them at night and the morning before we left. It is usually so cloudy in WA, I didn't think we would see them! But God happened to open the sky just for us! 
We could actually see a couple different Mountains: Mt. Angles, Mt.Pleasant, Elk Mt., Mt. Deception and a couple others. I don't really know what these ones are, but I am pretty sure one is Mt. Angles. Squim is right on the border of CANADA, so we were able to drive right to the border and see the Canadian mountains (I don't know there names). 
Since it was our fist time on the Ferry, we, of course, had to get a picture for/with Camille. :) We actually almost left her up on the deck!!! Yikes! But mom remembered in time and went up and got her!
And our beloved GPS system that we never really got...Here are some of them at the table eating pancakes. It was amazing how we were able to fit them all around it! I couldn't even fit them all in this picture!!! :)Since I was playing that night at a coffee shop in Osceola, we got to do our hair. Here are Grace and Molly O'Connor, our cousins, with their hair up in what we call a "Birthday Bow." And, as I mentioned, I had gone to Washington. I actually went there with my mom on business, but it was awesome!!! I have never been on an airplane before, and it was great (except when I really had to go to the bathroom on take-off and wasn't aloud to!)! We also brought "Camille" with. But it we kind of smuggled her in! :) lol.I was totally in awe of the magnificence of the land from the plane! I cant believe that God could have created all that! But he did! Wow! It is so amazing! It was cool how there were some places full of snow and some bright green! This was a small chunk of snow that I took a picture of. Some mountains from on high. I believe that these were the Cascade Mountains or somewhere near there. We landed in SeaTac, WA at 1:30 p.m. Which was very confusing given the fact we left Minneapolis at 11a.m. and it was a 3 hour flight and it would have been 3:30p.m. when we arrived there...Man, that is really confusing! It was awesome, though! We had know idea of direction when we landed so we wouldn't have known where we were going to go, though we did have a map Jessica Wilson "hand wrote" out for us. So we went to go get our rental car once we had landed, but they wouldn't let us have one!! So we had to wait for two hours for my dad, who was in Minnesota, to get everything straightened out! It got to be sooooo long! I just sat there in mental shock thinking: "Whoa, we are going to be stranded here, in the Seattle airport, with no sense of where the highway was and no way home!!!!" I was freaked... We finally did get a car, a Minnie van actually, and headed off to Squim, WA to meet the Hines family. It was an amazing drive!! Awesome views; it was amazing how the scenery can change from lush, green hills to mush, snow hills. After we spent some time at the Hines' we went out for diner at Applebees; just mom and I. I had a Margarita, which was interesting...and Camille had a Martini. lol. :) We stayed right next to the Olympic Mountains, which was SO AWESOME!! We were lucky enough to see them at night and the morning before we left. It is usually so cloudy in WA, I didn't think we would see them! But God happened to open the sky just for us! We could actually see a couple different Mountains: Mt. Angles, Mt.Pleasant, Elk Mt., Mt. Deception and a couple others. I don't really know what these ones are, but I am pretty sure one is Mt. Angles. Squim is right on the border of CANADA, so we were able to drive right to the border and see the Canadian mountains (I don't know there names). We left Wed. morning for Seattle, which was two hours away. It is weird how many coffee shops and espresso bars there are in WA! I mean, there had to be at least 200 between Sequim and Seattle! Seriously! Not one Bar! Here is one Coffee shop we stopped at that was made from a train. 
Then, we went on a Ferry for the first time! It was really cool! We got scared at first, because when mom asked some guy who worked there how long it was going to take (we had been previously told 30 min.), he said, very seriously, "oh, about 31/2 hours...depends on the tides." Mom's face paled. Our flight left at 3p.m. and it was already 11:30a.m.!!! O dear! We were wondering what to do in that split second of panic when the man laughed and said he was joking! Oi! We were scared a good one!
That was our trip to Washington [state] and back...and also our trip with watching all those kids at our house> Good Times...I'll write again soon! ~Hope
1 comment:
Wow mommy!
You look soooo amazing! I hope that you didn't pick up too many strange men while you were out in WA! ;0)
oh, and Hopey looks adorable too!
;-)
Lots of Love!!
~Camille =)
Post a Comment