Sarah and Nissim came to visit us in Seattle from New York City.
Nile and Matt took a few days off to be on vacation with them. We all went on the underground tour of historic Seattle. Seattle burned down, and in the process of reconstruction much of it was left underground. This view is looking through a sky light. The glass used for the sky light had special chemicals to prevent it from turning blue or green with age. Instead it turned purple. Throuought much of Seattle there are these beautiful flower baskets.
We took a day trip up to Vancouver B.C.. This is at the Chinese garden. We saw a turtle that appeared to be stuck on a rock and cooking in the hot sun, so we pried it off with a stick to get it back in the water. The turtle immediatly tried (unsuccessfully) to get back on the rock. We felt really bad. Among the turtles there were some frogs, coy, and ducks. We liked the frogs best. Here they are on some lilly pads. In Vancouver's Stanley park we came across what appears to be an abandonded bear pit.
As we do with every visitor, we went to Bainbridge Island for sushi. Mmm sushi.
