my seattle trip was wonderful. i seriuosly couldn't have asked for a better weekend; it was so much fun and so refreshing. two years since i'd been there and seen dts/ywam friends. wow.

i got in thursday evening and was met by mike, britany, and dave kim. we went over to Brit's parents and they fed me some food cos i was hungry (i ate so much good food this weekend :) ) and i got to watch mike and brit's wedding dvd and see their beautiful wedding photos. we then went to mike and brit's apartment, met the ferrets, rocked a lil guitar hero, and got some sleepy sleep.

friday was the wedding. brit worked in the morning, so mike and dave and I just kinda bummed around puyallup (where mike and brit live - it's just outside tacoma), went to the mall and starbucks (seattle people and coffeeshops...seriuosly, i thought i was bad about going to coffee too often, but a daily coffee stop is normal and sometimes two) and then had lunch at the olive garden. sarah drove from salem and met up with us while we were at olive garden. our reunion was a scene...teehee. oh the joyous occasion!
we then drove to snowhomish for jephta's wedding. it was about 1.5 hr north, but it was a fun drive. it was really fun watching jephta get married. he's so funny - him and his eyebrows...oh boy, you just have to know this guy to get it. the lorde farm venue was beautiful and it was fun seeing sean, heather, and tansi at the wedding as well as jephta and jenny.

saturday was seattle day!! dave kim had to leave early in the morning cos he had another wedding to go to, but mike and brit were buying a timeshare in teh morning (haha) so sarah and i headed up ourselves first and got some serious heart to heart time. twas wonderful. went to the trabant (which is the best chai in the ENTIRE world; it's seriuosly the most amazing thing ever i'm so obsessed with it) walked around the u district and then walked to gasworks and talked and such. it was a beautiul day. we then met mike and brit for lunch at the thai-ger room (my fav thai spot in seattle). after lunch we went downtown and went to pikes, the orig starbucks, and just other shopping places around downtown. for dinner we met up with my dts leader chrissie (ahhh yay!!) and got to see zach and amanda and zara. hadn't seen zara since she was a baby and now shes walking and talking and like 2 yrs old so that was nuts! we went to taste of india for dinner (the best indian food in the city) with chrissie and heather. oh my that was wonderful!!

sunday morin we went to eastpoint foursquare, mike and brit's church, and then had a ginornous lunch at red robin. sarah had to go home after lunch which was sad. mike, brit, and i drove up to see scott, christina and their two little boys. elyas is 3 wks old and i held him. oh me oh my that child is so precious. it was fun to see them and their boys cos christina was still a few months away from having rainen when we left dts. after we visited them, mike, brit and i went back to the u district for a bit. i got some souvineers at the u bookstore :) i wanted WOW bubble tea but it was closed, so we got bubble tea at oasis which i dodn't think was there when we were there. it was good. so we played yatzee and hung out there for awhile. when we got back to their apt brit and i watched cars until i had to leave. they took me to the airport and i flew away.

i've gotten very sporatic sleep as i couldn't sleep much on the flight cos the lady next to me decided to read all night even though the flight was 12:40 am to 5 am...who does that. had to go to work at 10:30...urg i felt so gross. at least all my jane adams stuff tonight was cancelled (but i wasn't gonna go anyway).

i love seattle. i want to move back there. downtown is just soo...alive. there are tons of people and it's a huge area. there's just so much to do and cool places to go. this sounds bad, but minneapolis really sucks compared to seattle. maybe i will move back someday...