Seattle

This weekend (well, Sunday, but our weekend) we packed up for Seattle to spend some time with Jake's family. It was, umm...good. Good as it could be, I guess.

This picture was taken on the freeway at 65 mph. Why is it that my camera can't handle people moving the slightest bit but it can get a good picture out of the window of a moving vehicle? Seriously, my camera takes some pretty bad pictures sometimes, but the ones out the car window are not so bad....wtf?

This is Jake's mom's fish. He's pretty cool. I wish we could have a fish, but Carl is way too naughty for us to have a fish. He would eat it in one minute.



This is Jake's first thing in the morning face:


This is Jake's breakfast--baklava from the QFC bakery of which he didn't eat the whole thing. I didn't try it because I had just brushed my teeth before he started it...apparently it wasn't that good.
Later on, we went to the bookstore and got coffee and pastries...yum! I really miss 3rd Place Books/HoneyBear Bakery....we don't have anything like that here in Bham. We have good coffee places, good hangout places, and good pastry OR sandwich places; but nothing where you can find all in one place :(. I probably would have gotten a lot more productive studying done in college if we had Third Place Books up here. And I can wander around for hours at Third Place...Village Books is just too darn small, as much as I love them.



It's kind of fun acting like a tourist in Seattle, even though I grew up there.
I started this book at the hospital today because I had left my other book (The Omnivore's Dilemma...not done yet!) at the house. Good thing we went to the bookstore.

This is my first "running book" so that's cool! I want more, but can never remember the authors' names when I am at the bookstore, so I don't get them and then I feel bad. I need to make a list and shop from that, but it's more fun to just wander at the bookstore and see who speaks to me. Right now J and I are pretty stocked up on books for a while, so I better get upstairs and clean some out and get rid of books we don't like/read anymore. And I need a bigger bookshelf considering all the books we have :) Maybe 3 bookshelves--one upstairs, one in the office, and one in the living room/dining room.
I saw this house near the Lake City exit on the freeway heading back north from downtown. I was pretty excited to see some Bette art...Jake said it had been there forever, but really, how long can that be? I had never seen it before. It was pretty hard to get a good picture, maybe next time I will be zoomed better.
No trip to Seattle is complete without a Dick's deluxe and a chocolate shake...well, the last few trips were complete without, but that said, that meant that we had to get down there this time. In high school, we ate there for lunch at least once a week since we had an open campus...it was great! That's another thing that we seriously lack in Belllingham--good, cheap, quick burgers!

Having this blog has been good for my photo-ing and I also update my running blog more often because of it....since I'm on blogger anyway, right?