Here I am looking over Roche Harbor, one of the islands off of Seattle, Washington, and Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. A friend of mine from Brazil, Rayanna Abreu, (she was about 9 at the time) was doing an intercambio where she worked up here (housekeeping) and learned English. (I'm not sure how much English she learned because they put her in a house with 2 other Brazilians! And their boss was Colombian!) We spoke in Portuguese those 3 days! Yeah!!)

Here we are looking back at the hotels and cafe etc. It's a really small resort/town on the north side of the island with Friday Harbor. It was in such a picturesque spot!! It was truly beautiful and peaceful. The island population swells to about 4 times the amount in the summer, so that would definitely be something to see!! That is to say that there were not a whole lot of people there when I was there. Getting there from Seattle I took a puddle jumper plane to the island, which was definitely an experience, but it was wonderful to get that aerial view of the islands etc.. On the way back to Seattle, I took the ferry from Friday Harbor to Anacortes, WA, and then a shuttle (bus) down to the airport. It's beautiful country up there!!

Little Katin Alexander Blackmun, was blessed the first Sunday in March by his Dad and various family members. (The poor little thing cried the whole way through it!) Yes, HE is wearing a dress that my Mom wanted purchased for her grandchildren to be blessed in. (I showed the picture to some friends at work and they said SHE's cute!! How soon they forget!) He's still our little blondie and so far his eyes have remained blue. He's soooooo cute!!!

Here's a picture of the family members that were there for the blessing. Aunt Sharon is taking the picture for us. There's me, Isaac, Bill and Espie Stone (Ericka's parents), Geno, Gene, Katin, Ericka, Aunt Jan, Uncle Gary, Dad, Malia, Laura Stone (Ericka's sister) and Anthony (Laura's boyfriend.)

I had more photos I wanted to add but a week ago this site wouldn't take them, so I downsized my photo postings. I'll post more later. Jeff and Erin are here now and we went to Disneyland yesterday, and then had Isaac's 4th birthday party this morning.