Ivars

Mike and I took the kids into Seattle today. We knew we wouldn't have time to do a whole lot, but our number one thing we wanted to do was to go to Ivars. We found a parking garage and walked down some steep hills. It dropped us right out at Ivars.

The kids LOVED it! It was just as good and as fun as I remembered. The kids had so much fun feeding the seagulls. Preston put a french fry over Jorja's head in the hopes that a seagull would fly right there. It worked! Although Jorja had realized what he was doing before it actually happened so it didn't freak her out as much as he had hoped. The kids asked Mike to get more food when we finished. They weren't done playing with the birds. We saw Mike come down the stairs and then saw him getting attacked by a seagull! Hahahahaha! We laughed so hard! The bird came and stole one of his fish sticks.

Preston

 Maysen

 Preston & Jorja

After Ivars we walked along the pier for a bit. Marijuana is now legal in Washington, so there is marijuana adds and souvenirs everywhere. We saw this saying on a shirt, then again on whatever this is.

We stopped at the Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, which has moved and confused me for a bit. We then walked up to Pike Place Market. It was really crowded, but I did see some flying fish. We didn't have a ton of time there, but Maysen helped me pick out some flowers to bring to Cheri. We walked back up super steep hills to our car. We only spent a few hours in Seattle and thought our parking bill would be about $12. Nope. It was $22. Man, it has become so expensive up here!

Mike, Jorja, Preston, Maysen, Stockton

 Jorja with flowers for Cheri.

We got back to Cheri's on time. I was proud of us. Cheri invited some people over for dinner. The Knopfs and the Jensens. The Peays were out of town. It was fun to see some people that I hadn't seen for years and years. Although Facebook is nice since I'm able to still have contact with them. Jorja, Aidan, Carter and Lily were watching this weird pimple popper show. I had fun watching their reactions. I tried to video them, but I was too slow for the best one. Oh well.

Winnie & Jorja

 Carter, Lily, Aidan, Winnie, Jorja, Chris behind them all

I had a great night. We ended up staying up late in Cheri's bedroom. Cheri was trying to teach Jorja how to put waves in her hair with a flat iron. After they finished that we stayed up late laughing our heads off. Mike got Cheri laughing as he told the story of one of their church experiences in Wyoming. There is no way I could even attempt to describe it, but just imagine Mike imitating a stereotypical valley girl voice. "So, Joseph went to the Sacred Grove and he started like praying and stuff and skip forward a bit and Moroni pops up." Other classic lines were "here goes that" and "Joseph was in prison for like crimes and stuff", "In Nauvoo they have the trail of hope, but it was a kind of a trashy time so I would have called it the trail of trash." Needless to say, we were laughing so hr it hurt. Aidan made us laugh even more with some of his impressions too. Poor Chris was trying to sleep because he has to work tomorrow. This night was so fun. It reminded me of staying up until 2:00 in the morning with Cheri and Cindy at our primary presidency meetings. We had so much fun together!