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Sunday, March 27, 2005

Easter Mini-trip (complete with bunny)


Anita and Jim are buying this house. We went to go take a look with them and give them our moral support.

As some of you know, whenever Nile is around people feel comfortable spending lots of money. This is the view from their breakfast nook. (Nile in the foreground.)

The house has a fabulous kitchen where 4 people can work comfortably. We are jealous.

Here is the front of the house. Anita has grand plans about redoing the landscaping. There is a 3 car garage in the back with a workshop where Jim looks forward to spending time.

We went to check out the beach clubhouse that the community owns. If you park there, it has to be for 72 hours. (That's what the sign says.) We parked for 5 minutes.

There is a nice little hike through a forested area near the water. We found a great big yellow slug there. We wanted to pickle it for Romney, but we didn't have a jar.

Tulip festival starts next week in the area, so we went to check out the tulips.

There were fields and fields of tulips. Here are some especially impressive ones with double petals.

It was raining lightly which made the tulips look fresh.



There was a bus parked in the middle of the tulip field.



Between the tulip fields were Jersey cows which Matt liked.

Yay cows!

Entering La Conner we found a fire hydrant. We wonder what the firemen think about this.

A bunny greeted us as we entered La Conner. Happy Easter!

Anita took us out for a yummy lunch. Matt topped off his lunch with a little slice of cake.



Driving out of La Conner we saw daffodils.

We got off the freeway because it was moving slowly, only to be stopped by the draw bridge in action.

Here's the little boat we stopped for.

Green light, off we go!

Monday, March 07, 2005

Hanami


We went on a hanami picnic this Sunday. Hanami is a traditional Japanese picnic under a blossoming cherry tree. The weather has been fantastic recently and we were especially lucky this day.

We spent all morning cooking various dishes. We made about seven different dishes ranging from umeboshi onigiri, to ocha dango. It was all really tasty. Our friend Kirsten was able to join us too. Matt was lame about getting the details out to his work friends in time, so they wern't able to make it.

Matt's team took today off. They went out for brunch and then rock climbing. Left to right, Joe (on the wall), Russell, Mike, Ari, Matt, Radha.

Here's Matt scaling an overhang. He was only able to do two climbs because he's so out of shape. He had a lot of fun though and helped Russell with the belaying.