My trip to Washington in December

My dad Doug, his wife Wendy and my sister Jessica picked me up at the airport and we had dinner and visited at a fun restaurant before they dropped me off at Stephanie's house.

I couldn't believe how much Jessica had grown since seeing her in October! So we
decided to get a picture to show just how tall she was getting. We are in Stephanie's
house in Seattle where Dad, Wendy, Jessica, Stephanie and I all had a nice visit before
they left to go back home to Bonney Lake.

This trip was to spend the weekend with Stephanie. Last year we had a wonderful weekend together down in Arizona, but this year the prices had increased quite a bit. So we decided to have me fly over and then spend the weekend on Whidbey Island at a Bed and Breakfast Inn. In the picture above we had just finished a yummy lunch at a cute little Greek cafe in Langley which was on the way to Coupeville where we stayed.

Coupeville was a nice little town and we mostly walked everywhere that we needed to go. The main shops and restaurants where only a couple blocks away from the Inn. They had a snowman like this one on almost every block of the main road that goes through town and they were all dressed up differently which was kind of neat.

This was down by all the shops and restaurants and was a really pretty view of Mt. Vernon.

It is rare for this part of the country to get much snow and so I had to laugh a little when we went down to the wharf to do some shopping and to eat lunch and there was a sign saying it was closed due to snow!

This is a picture of where we stayed. It is called the Love Joy Inn and we stayed in the Cottage Suite which was separate from the rest of the Inn. After you go in the side door you go up the stairs to the Suite.

Steph eating breakfast one morning. The room was really nice and cozy with an island theme and a small kitchenette. We had a wonderful quiet and relaxing weekend together away from the "busy"ness and noise of day to day life.

After spending the weekend on Whidbey Island with Stephanie, I was able to spend part
of Monday,Monday night, and Tuesday morning with Susan, Noah, and Abdurrazag. We
stopped by to see Zach at work (he moved out not too long ago). It was a lot of fun to
see them and to catch up with Susie and play some fun games. She still had 2 wishbones
to wish on and break and we both won one!