Well, we made it. We flew into Seattle on Friday and we're here until Tuesday morning. It's been nice to get away and have our first vacation, just the two of us, in over 4 years. Maybe 5? Thank you to Margie, Wade, Amber, Matich, Ron and Mo for taking the kids for us so that we can do this! But don't be fooled: just because we don't have the kids or work or chores DOES NOT mean we haven't been just as busy, if not busier! Here's how it's been so far:
FRIDAY
We got to SLC airport Friday morning about 2 hours before our plane was scheduled to leave. Good thing. Because while Chris's backpack was running through airport security, TSA spotted a "concealed weapon": brass knuckles tucked away in a little pocket inside another pocket. SLC police pulled Chris over to the side, where Chris explained that he had just borrowed the backpack from a coworker that morning and he thought he had emptied out all of the pockets. This was the police officers response: "Well, what if this backpack had been LOADED with cocaine?!" Ummm, if it was LOADED with drugs, I think Chris would have noticed it while he was emptying out all of the pockets, like he told the officer he did. Anyways, Chris got a ticket for a concealed weapon, which will probably be a HUGE fine, but we're really lucky that it didn't end up being worse than that. Chris will go before the judge to explain again what happened, & we'll just go from there! Right after the almost hour-long fiasco, I spotted Kyle Beckerman (Rosy's boyfriend) from Real Salt Lake (see earlier soccer posting). I HAD to take a picture of him for Miss Rosy. So I grabbed Chris's cell phone & ran over to him. Maybe it was because someone was asking him for his picture, or maybe I accidentally called him Ryan instead of Kyle, but he was acting kind of weird. He was a good sport though & one of his teammates took a picture of us. I told him that Rosy was mad at him because he never wrote her back on myspace, so I thought she would be kind of mad at me, but as soon as she got the picture we sent to her phone, she called me up & told me I should've given him her number! I thought she was mad at him! So anyways, I get to be Rosy's screensaver for a while. I mean, Kyle gets to be Rosy's screensaver for a while. We had time to kill still so we bought a book & a sprite & sat down to read until our flight started boarding. I opened my Sprite and it exploded all over my silk shirt. I had to go to the bathroom to take it off & wash & dry it. Silk dries fast!! After that we didn't want to sit around & wait so we walked up & down the airport, where we saw Chris's ex, who I don't like because she tried to get back together with Chris after we were living together. She obviously didn't get the being dumped part. But that was a long time ago, so I'm over it, right? Later on, as we were waiting to board our plane, passengers were deboarding & off walked Davey Havok, the lead singer from the band AFI! It was pretty cool to see 2 semi-famous people in less than 2 hours. Then we were late taking off because our Southwest airplane was leaking hydraulic fluid from the landing gear (thanks pilot, for telling us that right before we started flying) but we landed safely, got to Judith's work, dropped off our suitcases & just walked around downtown for a few hours until she got off work. For dinner that night we tried Ethiopian food. Not too bad, it reminded me of Southern food. No forks, you eat the food by tearing bread into pieces & scooping or picking up the food. The bread was weird, very spongy, & it expanded in our stomachs SO bad (that was for you, jude). It was a VERY interesting day, to say the least.
SATURDAY
Judith had to work, so we hitched a ride into Seattle with her. We spent a few hours walking around along the waterfront. We took an underground tour, where we learned that the city made most of its money off of underground brothels when it first started out. For lunch we ate the most amazing nachos we've ever eaten in our lives & then walked to the Space Needle. We were going to go to the top but the line was ridiculously long so we took pictures & called it good. We were worn out from walking, so we rode the monorail back most of the way & picked up Judith from work again. We found out later that almost right after we left the Space Needle, 2 people got shot, so it's a good thing we ended up leaving! From there we made our way to Alki beach & met up with Jude's friend Abraham, who is also from Salt Lake originally. Chris & Abe ended up knowing a few of the same people so we had fun just walking on the sand talking. I think that was the first time Chris ever walked barefoot on sand. His poor delicate little feet didn't handle it too well, but neither did my busted up pinkie toe (I cut it open real bad by stubbing my toe on Bostyn's swing at 3 in the morning & required stitches but it was too late by the time I actually took time to look at it). Plus all the state of Washington gang members & drug dealers seemed to like hanging out on the boardwalk at dinnertime. So we left & drove up to a look out point & just hung around until it got dark. Abe left & we decided it was time to head to Jude's house to eat & watch movies. We all fell asleep on the couch at like 2 in the morning.
SUNDAY
This was our "relaxing" day. If you call putting a corrugated steel roof on Judith's sister's shed and then spending 6 straight hours with Judith's 8-month-old nephew shopping at the factory outlet stores "relaxing" or "taking it easy" then you deserve a pat on the back. Cuz even though that's what we did, I wouldn't say we took it easy at all. Poo. But we treated ourselves to a fab seafood dinner:
Garlic Butter Shrimp
Garlic Butter Scallops
Alaskan King Crab Legs
Marlin cooked in Mango Butter
Halibut cooked in Coconut Butter
*a heart attack waiting to happen*
Roasted Rosemary Baby Red Potatoes
Garlic Cheese Biscuits
White cake with Chocolate frosting (also eaten for breakfast the next morn)
Rockstar Energy Drink
Thank you Chris and Judith for making such an amazing meal!!!
MONDAY
Judith had today off too so she drove us the long way into Seattle so we could get some good views of the state. We are pretty sure that we drove past Bill Gates house, but who knows? We went to a place called Gasworks Park, where we got a view exactly opposite of the lookout point we were out on Saturday. We were cold so we didn't stay too long, so we checked out a few famous spots throughout the state on the way back to downtown. These included the "troll" under the bridge and Public Market Place, where the first Starbucks in the world is located. We did a little bit more shopping (Bostyn is SET for the summer!) before eating lunch at FOX Sports Grill & then Judith dropped us off at our hotel. Everything we had done up to this point had really caught up with us. We were literally exhausted. We only had about an hour and a half before the Red Sox took on the Mariners, so the second we got into our hotel room, we crashed. I definitely did not sleep long enough. But there was no way we were going to be late to our first Red Sox game! Once we got to the stadium, it was really amazing to see how many Red Sox fans there were. It was seriously about half and half, if not more than the number of Mariners fans! It ended up being a game that took the Red Sox out of a small losing streak, we won 5-3. I think Chris also got a little star struck over Manny Ramirez: he kept elbowing me, "There's Manny, there's MANNY!" Definitely something we'll have to do again when we head out to Boston in September.
TUESDAY
Heading home. Nothing better in the world than seeing our beautiful, fantastic, wonderful, fun, cute kids. When Margie pulled up to us, Noah had this HUGE cheesy grin on his face and HE WOULD NOT STOP LAUGHING. He woke up poor Bostyn, who saw Chris, then me, got a big smile on her face, started laughing & getting all excited, bouncing around, then started bawling because she was still buckled into her car seat instead of in my arms. Her face had this look like she was SO relieved to see us, I seriously think she thought she would never see us again. The poor thing experienced more emotion in a few seconds than she has in her whole lifetime! After swapping the kids back & forth for hugs & kisses for a while, I climbed into the backseat with my babies for the drive home. Noah still wouldn't stop laughing & Bostyn kept grabbing my hand & hugging it to her face. We are never leaving our poor babies alone that long ever again! Although we had a TON of fun, it was good for us to get away, it was good to see Judith after almost a year, & see the Boston Red Sox for the first time, I'm pretty sure we will wait a good 10-15 years before we do that again! (I kid, I'm sure we'll be dying for a vacation in a month!)
K thanks for reading my novel. I will add pictures soon, there's over 230 of them! I have to decide which ones to put into the slide show. Check back soon!
5.25.2008
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I can't wait for you to post some pics. Sounds like quite the airport fiascoe.
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