Saturday, July 17, 2004
Summer Activities
We haven't taken any major trips this summer and I love it. This is the best place to be. In the past week or so we've had some fun vacationing from our own house so I'll recap:
1. Garbage Fun One of Lucas's friend's family made some good money in the garbage business; in fact, in any alley around here, you will see their name on all of the dumpsters. Lucas's friend, Denny, goes to Boston College but he is home this summer and for his entire life he hasn't missed the State Garbage Convention. This year was no different; the convention was held in Yakima and Lucas decided he had to see for himself what a garbage convention was all about. So he and a friend went to Yakima to visit Denny and his family at the Garbage Convention. Lucas loved seeing the big brand new garbage trucks. He said they even smelled new. He came home with a bag full of key chains and water bottles for us and said Denny just loved showing him everything.
2. Beach Fun Kaley happens to be friends with Denny's brother David so she has been invited to their beach house as has Lucas to eat somores and ride in a boat. It seems funny to me that they have a lovely home with a view of Puget Sound and then a little beach cottage just 45 minutes a little further north also on Puget Sound. But the garbage business is good!! There is this Indian reservation and quite a few people have a little cottages right on the beach. The people actually own their cottages but they pay on a lease to the Native Americans for the land.
3. Food Fun There is a little cafe about 20 minutes north called the Maltby Cafe in Maltby. It always makes the Best of Western Washington Awards so we decided to go there while on vacation at our own house. Oh man, I LOVE cinnamon rolls and theirs are famous. They are the size of a dinner plate. Then to walk that off, we drove 3 minutes further and found Flower World which is an incredibly landscaped forest and gardens with a nursery to buy anything that ever has grown ever.
4. Shopping Fun Now that Nordstrom's has gone national, this is no longer a Seattle activity but the half yearly sale actually had an article about it in the Seattle Times today. Kaley and I hit the famous sale and got some shoes since Kaley has a purse and shoes and boot fetish. I remember years ago when I worked downtown, we'd leave work and take time to go to THE mother of all sales--the Nordstrom sale and you could be totally honest about it.
5. Music Fun Continuing with our vacation in our own house, we headed to the famous Darrington Blue Grass Festival today. Darrington is about an hour north of here and it is nestled in the North Cascade Mountains. We sat and listened to Blue Grass in the forest for a couple of hours at the base of this giant craggy mountain covered with glaciers and waterfalls. Speakers were sitting on gigantic stumps from old growth trees from the old days. The kids got T-shirts and it made me realize that these days where the four of us do these things as a family will not last forever. But at least, I totally enjoyed grooving out to Bluegrass with my loves today.
We haven't taken any major trips this summer and I love it. This is the best place to be. In the past week or so we've had some fun vacationing from our own house so I'll recap:
1. Garbage Fun One of Lucas's friend's family made some good money in the garbage business; in fact, in any alley around here, you will see their name on all of the dumpsters. Lucas's friend, Denny, goes to Boston College but he is home this summer and for his entire life he hasn't missed the State Garbage Convention. This year was no different; the convention was held in Yakima and Lucas decided he had to see for himself what a garbage convention was all about. So he and a friend went to Yakima to visit Denny and his family at the Garbage Convention. Lucas loved seeing the big brand new garbage trucks. He said they even smelled new. He came home with a bag full of key chains and water bottles for us and said Denny just loved showing him everything.
2. Beach Fun Kaley happens to be friends with Denny's brother David so she has been invited to their beach house as has Lucas to eat somores and ride in a boat. It seems funny to me that they have a lovely home with a view of Puget Sound and then a little beach cottage just 45 minutes a little further north also on Puget Sound. But the garbage business is good!! There is this Indian reservation and quite a few people have a little cottages right on the beach. The people actually own their cottages but they pay on a lease to the Native Americans for the land.
3. Food Fun There is a little cafe about 20 minutes north called the Maltby Cafe in Maltby. It always makes the Best of Western Washington Awards so we decided to go there while on vacation at our own house. Oh man, I LOVE cinnamon rolls and theirs are famous. They are the size of a dinner plate. Then to walk that off, we drove 3 minutes further and found Flower World which is an incredibly landscaped forest and gardens with a nursery to buy anything that ever has grown ever.
4. Shopping Fun Now that Nordstrom's has gone national, this is no longer a Seattle activity but the half yearly sale actually had an article about it in the Seattle Times today. Kaley and I hit the famous sale and got some shoes since Kaley has a purse and shoes and boot fetish. I remember years ago when I worked downtown, we'd leave work and take time to go to THE mother of all sales--the Nordstrom sale and you could be totally honest about it.
5. Music Fun Continuing with our vacation in our own house, we headed to the famous Darrington Blue Grass Festival today. Darrington is about an hour north of here and it is nestled in the North Cascade Mountains. We sat and listened to Blue Grass in the forest for a couple of hours at the base of this giant craggy mountain covered with glaciers and waterfalls. Speakers were sitting on gigantic stumps from old growth trees from the old days. The kids got T-shirts and it made me realize that these days where the four of us do these things as a family will not last forever. But at least, I totally enjoyed grooving out to Bluegrass with my loves today.
// posted by Janet @ 9:41 PM
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