But, it turned out well, after a morning of distracting the kids from getting ready for school and then a quick 30 minute run, I went to Bellevue to catch up with my Symetra Peeps. It was a great time and I was so glad to see people, but I ran short on time and had to arrange to come back after my visit in Spokane. Friday night was Kristy's 30th birthday party and it was sooo great to see all the girls, even Hallie, fresh from her long journey from London (she too had multiple travel issues and no sleep for about 28 hours). But the excitement of the event and reunion kept us all going. :)
Hallie, with her fresh Jet Lag and I decided it would be best if we shared a room that night to keep from disturbing the others when we woke at 3:40am... It turns out that 6+ months of separation from each other made for early morning giggling and we woke up half the house anyway... but I think we made up for it by sneaking out to pick up some fresh bakery goodies from the Columbia City Bakery down the street and cheerfully getting our name on the 'list' for breakie at Geraldine's cafe. With the large group, it took awhile to get us all a table. After breakfast, we had some down time and then I was off to Spokane to visit the 'rents for a few days.
While in Spokane, not only did I get to see Grandma-who is doing very well-but caught up with an old school chum, Jera. It was great to catch up with her, meet her husband and see that she has settled into a nice life for herself back in Cheney. I also managed to squeeze some time out of Nicole, who had lots to do while she was in Spokane and meet up with our old friend Damian. We got a tour of his very lovely house on the South hill and had some quality time just the three of us. I was very pleased to catch up with him as he, Nicole and I spent a lot of time together back at Wazzu. I did spend a better part of my time in Spokane sleeping off the tail end of my head cold, battling the last of my jet lag and of course meeting Mom and Dad's new horse... His name is Casey and he is a beautiful sorrel with a nice white blaze and 3 out of 4 white feet. Nanette and I were able to sneak off to do a little shopping and sister bonding time over the new Indiana Jones movie. Good flick! I also got to catch up with my friend Matthew, who believe it or not, has a beautiful little girl who was absolutely the spitting image of him and quite a bright little thing with plenty of attitude... so nice to see that justice was being repaid to Matt as he was quite the trouble maker as a kid himself. :)
Back to Seattle for the big wedding. But first, some quality time with some of the girls when we went to Spa Del Lago for a group pedicure. Yeah! such pretty toes... Then we checked into our hotel, had a little madness coordinating pick ups and balloons for the big event and then off to the wedding of the summer(or winter if you're an Aussie).
The wedding was in a community hall in south Seattle with a beautiful great room and a large room upstairs that would be the playroom for the kids as the night progressed. Kristy looked absolutely gorgeous with here white halter-neck gown and Adam looked handsome as ever. A testament to Kristy in that there were people from all over the world as well as all over the country that came to her lovely affair. The food was delicious and with a lot of variety, plus the most succulent strawberry's one has ever tasted. And what better to go with them than a nice glass of bubbly to toast to the bride and groom! Yummy! After a night of dancing, laughing, story telling and photo-booth action, Nicole, Ally and I headed back to our hotel after dropping the fine miss Abby off at her place.
The next morning was a great little breakie event at Julia's in Wallingford (a place popular with us girls when we all lived so close). Mr. Tim Botz did a stand up job of being the only male to attend and he even had some lovely patriarchal things to say. :) It was so great to have Julie R, Emi-Bo and the rest of the clan there!
Later, Nicole and I spent the afternoon lounging at Nordstroms and shoe shopping before she headed off to the airport. I got to spend the next few days recuperating and spending some quality time with Bazin! before jetting off at 1 in the morning to return to Aussie land. All in all it was such a fabulous trip and it was so great to see everyone, have some one on one time and catch the worst cold in a decade... yes, that is right, I got to return to Australia with Abby or Ally's cold-maybe even a combination of them both! Luckily, I just took several days to rest up once I returned here and slept a lot.
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