Monday, May 10, 2010

Last day as a family.

Shona has left us.
She caught a ferry up to Alaska on Friday.
But we were still able to squeeze in a frisbee event on Thursday.

We adopted Ben.

Mark, Shona, Ben and I went to Lake Padden where the sun is shining and the grass is squishy.
We had cookies and two frisbees.
We played frisbee.

For two or so hours.
It was a lot of fun but there is really only so much I can say.
So, thats all.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Oh Canada

On Saturday, I accompanied Mark, Sue, MJ, Danny and Lexie to Canada. Though we were in White Rock, so it hardly counts as Canada. You can still see mostly Washington but you can drink a honey lager at the age of 19.

The Mark, Sue, MJ, Madeline car did not have anyone in it that forgot their passports so we got parked in a timely fashion.
We changed our clothes and head out to the low tie beach for some skim boarding.

*Sue, skimming it up*
We were about an hour in by the time the Danny, Lexie car party arrived.
We stayed on the beach for about 20 more minutes then were driven inland due to wind and cold times.
We rinsed off and got changed and set out in search of a dining establishment for dinner.
We found one with snooty waitresses that looked like Barbies.
And apart from extreme salt conditions on my halibut burger, the food was very good.
Also, they messed up on several items on our order resulting in some free food for us.
Yay Yam fries.
Upon returning some found keys to their owner, I received a large hug from an extremely skinny and glittery woman in a tiny denim vest.
We finished up and moved on to mediocre ice cream.
While eating we walked along the pier and then parked on some benches to listen to the two-high-school-boy-Beatles-cover-band.

*Mark and Sue*
They were fun and we all sang along a little to Hey Jude (Which was played per Mary Jane's request).
We then made our way back to the cars (where I accidentally swore in front of some small children) and set off back to America.
It was a supremely pleasant day that ended in lounging and mojitos.

On a separate note, it is clean sheet day.
I don't care what your viewpoint on anything is, you can't deny that clean sheets are just great.
It has been far too long since my last celebration of this holiday....
I am going to take clean sheet day for all it is worth and not disrupt the festivities be getting out of bed to get my camera. I will add pictures tomorrow.

Also, I made vegan chocolate chocolate chip walnut cookies again as they are the only kind of cookies that I make these days. They were wildly popular among the swimming community.

My raw cookbook (well, I suppose recipe book would be more appropriate) came in the mail today. I am excited to try out some of this stuff. It's gonna be weird!