Friday, April 21, 2006

So many things…

I have so many things to share – and I want to share them all – I don’t know where to start.  So, over the next couple of days I will attempt to get everything out.

Visitation:

A friend of mine from Colorado came up for a visit this past weekend.  I’m pretty sure I rescued her for a few hours from her cousin, who seemed to be slowly torturing her with, well, slowness.  First her cousin did not pick her up from the airport until approximately 5 hours after she had landed.  Then she had them all go out for breakfast, to Starbucks.  I’m not against Starbuck by any means, but Michelle does not drink coffee, and I wouldn’t be the first to say that breakfast at S-Bucks is nutritious. 
Of course breakfast took place around 9am, very late for someone who is used to getting up at 5am Mountain time.  Yeah. 
I called her about 1pm to see where she was, as I was planning on meeting her in the city.  They were just on their way to lunch.  Okay, I adjusted my schedule to keep busy while I waited for her.  Two hours later, when I left work, they had just finished lunch.  We met up at Pike Place Market and slowly made our way through the fish and flowers.  Finally her cousin gave up and let us out on our own.
We headed to Ballard and the beach, the locks and the Fremont Troll.  We took her out for a great Mexican dinner (gotta love the Moose) and we stayed up talking.  The next morning, early risers all of us, we got up and went to breakfast.  Her cousin had informed me that they would pick Michelle up around 9am to go to the tulip festival.  We got done with breakfast around 9:30 and not heard anything.  We gave them a call to find they were just getting up.  So we headed off to another beach, then off to Gasworks park.  We called again, they were finally on their way. 
At 11:30 we met up with them.  Only two hours later than originally planned.  Right as they left the rain started, I hope they had fun at the tulip festival!