Is far......half and hour?......ten miles?......three years?......from here to N.Y. city?
How about 60 stories high and six hours?
Now for the explaination. We've had the two older kids on a public charter schools waiting list since mid December. I called yesterday to see if our position had changed. "Yes" said the nice reseptionist "I'll probably get to you by Friday." YEA! This ment that Sam would go to school by Monday....THIS coming Monday.
Now, to today. Ben called in the am to see how our day was going (we'd already had a dry run to the school and were late by ten minutes). He asked where our errends would take us. I jokingly said "New York!" Then the idea came to me to go to Seattle and visit the Space Needle as a last hurah of home school. I will be more flexable when Sis and Sam go to school, but they won't be. He (Ben) loved the Seattle idea so we kidnaped my mom and were off!
As we were getting on I-205, I remembered I'd left my camera. Fortunatly my mom had hers. She's still got the picts. stuck in her camera ;) but I'll post them when they get unstuck :)
I got a little nervous on the ride up and first step off the elevator (it was a very windy day and the elevator was slightly rocking on the 84 second ride) but I did fine.
On the drive back we nearly got stuck in snow on I-5. The weather was terrible, aside form 5 patches of sunbursts. Thanks God for traveling mercies!
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so, where will the twins go? Are they in 1st grade yet?
How fun is that? Josh and I are going to Seattle next weekend..God willing..I'm so looking forward to it.. I love Seattle.
Hey, it was a fantastic day! I still am chuckling about Katy's call early that morning .. Do you want to go to the Space Needle today? I hadn't been up in it since it was built in 62 for the World's Fair! She picked me up at 9:30 and we were done with trip errands and on the freeway a bit after 10. The kids were absolutely great in the car both ways! They had books, snacks and electronic gear to keep them occupied. At one point we were in the car pool lane going north, both of us chatting away, and it looked like that lane was exiting! Katy quickly checked and pulled over, only to find out a little further that the car pool lane reconnected! We laughed then! We made a drive thru stop at McDonalds, which the kids were patiently awaiting. Zach was famished to the point of nausea! The directions she had were perfect! We drove straight to the needle, and parked a block away. We had asked for no rain, and it was pretty clear. There were even a few blue patches of sky. The ride up was smooth, and didn't seem like we were zooming up 60 stories! At the top, Katy wasn't sure she wanted to go outside, but I encouraged her. It was quite windy and cold, so we bundled everyone up. The kids were so excited to look thru the binoculars. We could see all around. There were boats, airplanes and even a helicopter landed on a roof top below us. We even found where we parked the car! Bird's eye view! Katy had paid for an hour of parking, so we took our trip down, walked thru the gift shop, purchased a frig magnet for the memory, walked to the car and easily found our way back to the freeway! It was only 3 pm! Joey was sad and wanted to stay longer! We were home by 6:20pm! What an eventful day! One that we'll all remember for a long time. I loved every minute of spending prime time with some of my favorite people! Thanks again, Katy and Ben! Love, Mom : )
Katy's mom...you should have your own blog, you're so good at it :)
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