Seattle Trip!!!

It has been a couple of weeks since our trip up to Seattle and I hadn't blogged anything because we lost all of our pictures! Something had happened while downloading them and all we got were corrupted jpegs! Aaaah! So frustrating! But I did a lot of research and found that they might be able to be recovered. We called around to some computer shops here in Alb. and found one that said they could probably get them. I went the next day. This place is pretty cool. Great service and great people there, so nice. So Sandia Computers were able to get all but 20 pictures out of 300. Pretty impressive and it did not cost anything near what it costs on line! So, if you ever have that kind of problem I highly suggest this place. When I went to pick up the disc the news crew was there doing a story on the guy who did the work for me and I guess he is one of just a few in the country that can actually get the job done.

Anyway after that huge story here was our trip! We had a blast!

The Seattle Temple

The temple was beautiful! We went there the first day and loved it! The grounds around it, of course, were stunning, there were beautiful statues everywhere!

I call this picture Matt's missionary shot. Doesn't it look like one of those pictures a young missionary would take while serving in some tropical place?..

Seattle Waterfront

Down town Seattle was beautiful as well. But honestly, too crowded for me.

Matt did get some Fish and Chips that he had been wanting. They remind him of being in New Zealand or Australia when he was little. The smell was enough for me, I couldn't even taste it. But we will just have to take his word that they were great! And he does look like he was thoroughly enjoying them, doesn't he?

Seagulls, Seagulls Everywhere!

So they were really fun to watch, but they were loud and I'm thinking they might become troublesome if you were around them too much! Especially after I saw one almost throw up on a lady as she walked under it. OOOHHH GROSS! I was very cautious as to where I walked after that.

San Juan Islands

Mmmm... Definitely my favorite part of the trip. I think if we had known it was going to be so amazing we would have stayed the whole time there!

First, we had to load our car on the ferry and go 1 1/2 hours to Friday Harbor. (We only had enough time to go to one of the islands.) And the ferry ride over was just as wonderful with all of the beautiful ocean and landscape we saw...

Matt and I just sat out on one of the upper decks and enjoyed the warmth of the sunshine.

And isn't the picture above the most beautiful picture?

We toured and hiked the whole island. and we totally fell in love with it! We are already planning a trip back with our kids....

When the season is right, there are whales everywhere. Unfortunately we weren't in that season so this as close we got to seeing a whale...

I loved this little church set up on a hill...

Taking a break at an old fort school house....

We took this picture for our boys... It is a helicopter doing something with a coast guard ship... It was pretty neat to see the spray coming up around the ship.......

The island reminded me of where Anne of Green Gables would have lived... just beautiful.

We just would sit there looking out into the ocean and enjoying the peacefulness of everything around us. Our heavenly Father really gave us a beautiful earth to live on.

A beautiful sun set for a beautiful day.....

So it was a great trip. We missed our kids immensely, but they had a fabulous time at the ranch and I think they were pretty sad that the weekend went so fast