I feel like summer has come and gone. I'm not sure if I'm thrilled about summer or just bummed out. So far my summer looks something like:

Beginning June 1:

- Family Indian Princess Campout
- 3 Day Drive to Seattle with Grandma and two kids
Note: Must find some cool place to stop at
- 3 Weeks in Seattle, I stay one week post-kids
- Home 2 days, leave for wedding in Alabama that The Daughter is flower girl in :)
- Home 1 day, maybe 24 hours actually, leave for family Mexico Burning Hot Summer Vacation
- Home 1 day, Seattle for week

Note: I have now officially been in Seattle more than San Diego (this is scary).

- Home 2 days, leave for Mt. Shasta retreat for 1 week

- School starts

I also realized today that I will be gone for the entirety of this year's teacher training.

The Best Friend came to Seattle for his 40th birthday. We had a totally a mellow but groovin' good time that started with all day adventure off the lake, through the locks and around to the skyline. We then did the absolute coolest thing ever. There was one of those big freighters, just like this:

Big Freighter

We were in the water so we got to drive about 150 feet from it and watch as the big Port of Seattle container loaders loaded those big boxes, like Legos, onto the tanker. A guy sits in a "office" that moves and picks up a single box that a single 18 wheeler brought in, and then fits it into holes ontop of the previous one. A few of those move in cycles aross the span of the boat and evnetually end up witht his amazingly packed in cargo ship full of them. It was literally one of the coolest things ever. About 5 boxes high I got worried that if one fell I was crushed. So we drove around it and watched it from all 3 sides.

For Memorial Day we all went out to the waterfall The Son and I hiked to last week. We took some sandwiches. Everyone had their big backpacks on with CamelBak's. It was pretty funny.