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Our Vacation in Washington Last Month
(I'm feeling chipper)
It's high time I told you about our August vacation trip. My wife Karen, my son Lucas, and I took six days off and travelled to the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. First we flew to the Seattle/Tacoma airport (the flight was delayed for a couple of hours), rented a car, and settled into our hotel in downtown Seattle. The hotel was interesting. It had odd-shaped bathroom fixtures, and the lobby looked a little like a fancy brothel (paintings of nudes, red walls, etc.). The coolest thing was that on every floor, local photographers displayed their works on the doors of each room. We stayed in Seattle for two days, ate all of our meals in restaurants, and walked all over the city. I took some cool photographs along the way. One day I took Lucas to the Space Needle, and we went to the top. That same day, we went on a bunch of amusement park rides. I'm getting too old for some of those! They either make me queasy or threaten to strain my neck. (In my younger days, the scarier the rides were, the better.) After our stay in Seattle, we drove north to Anacortes, WA, which is on one of the San Juan Islands (there's a bridge connecting it to the mainland). There we spent a lot of time with my sister and her housemate, and also with my niece, her partner, and their three young children (one a newborn), who were down from Vancouver, BC. We spent three days in Anacortes. Some of the highlights were going to the county fair, seeing the movie "The Dark Knight" (the Joker was a bit scary for Lucas, but he was still glad he saw it), taking some beautiful hikes, sitting in a cafe listening to a singer/guitarist, and eating delicious Japanese and Thai food. Unfortunately, I left my digital camera outside one of the restaurants we ate in, and when I went back to get it, it was gone. So I lost most of my pictures from the trip. :-( That's why I'm making a blog about it instead of a video. Anyway, when our stay was over, we drove our rental car back to the airport (and got stuck in such a bad traffic jam that we missed our flight). Luckily, we were able to get on another flight two hours later. (Karen tends to get very stressed out whenever there is some delay in our transportation. She hates being confined to a plane or a car for long periods. So that part wasn't pleasant, but the rest of the trip really was.) Thanks for reading this travel blog, everyone. Have a great day. =)
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