Our sweet kitty, Chip, just having a little nap on our bed...

In this house, everyplace is fair game for a nap...

Chip and Barry...

Barry and I out for a night on the town - actually a fundraiser for United Way...apparently this was picture worthy - sorry for the blurriness...

Stevii's 8th grade volleyball team in action!

Lunch with Susie, Jim, Grandad, Marie, etc. after picking Jaron and Ellie up from camp Elim...

Just the perfect way to end a trip to the USA...

Whew! Worn out on the plane...ready for our own beds...

TO INFINITY AND BEYOND...
Once again, we are off to the great US of A - this time for 6 weeks (Barry will only be staying 2 because of that job thing he has to do...something about putting food on the table - whatever...). So our flight takes us through Tokyo's Narita airport where I found this sign...

And this yummy soup...

Our first real stop (where we got out of the airport) was Seattle. My brother and his wife just recently moved there when my brother took a new job with Microsoft. So we stayed for 5 days with them, overlapping with the end of my parents' visit to Seattle. Just so you get a general picture of how crazy this trip was, after 5 days in Seattle, we flew to Denver, dropped bags at my parents' house, slept overnight, and then drove 7 hours to Newton, Kansas, stayed the weekend, drove back to Denver, stayed 3 nights, flew to NYC (barry for 2 days, kids for 7 days, me for 10 days) and then back to Denver, where I am now, writing this blog entry...

All that said, here's the view from the plane window flying into Seattle. And, BTW, this is my first trip to Seattle...

Near the famous Pikes Place Market area, people apparently can just sit down wherever they feel the need...

SEATTLE

Pikes Place Market...

Interesting juxtaposition of signage...if this was REALLY one sign, what would it mean?

Funny story about this one which illustrates the importance of reading directions, fine print and very faded and scratched up print as well. Barry put a $20 bill in a parking thing like this just before barely deciphering the hardly distinguishable words saying "no change given". Needless to say, someone got a very nice $18 tip that day. Lesson learned...

Pikes Place Fish Market! Famous for having fun while working...they are now internationally known in the corporate world for their training videos on this very subject!

Davis has a crawfish discussion...

Pasta, pasta and more pasta...

In case you were wondering what it looks like up close...

Snoozing with grandma...

Talisha and Braedyn...

Many great brother-in-law discussions are had over pizza...

Braedyn and Michael...

Kids as art...

Michelle in Seattle...so there!

Contemplating Seattle...

Half a boat????

Houseboats...

Davis shops at flea market...

Braedyn shops too!

Old coal plant - now a park...

Stars and stripes...

I'm about to break into song...