goodstorysarah

since my parent’s left seattle a week ago, we’ve been surrounded by piles and piles of boxes and out of place objects. i haven’t had much time to post anything, but there’s a small lull in the storm of packing tonight so here are a few more photos from my parents visit.

the last night they were here we went to safeco field to watch the mariners lose…i mean win…but they lost anyway. good try guys.

welcome to safeco field!

and welcome again!

the seattle...moose?

derek jeter.

yeah, you sweep that plate sassy pants.

what will ichiro do?!

cannon beach!

little seagull footprints.

haystack.

ripples.

dad found a perfect sand dollar.

lazy birds.

herc, blue sky and sand.

astoria.

nutty narrows squirrel bridge.

give it up squirrel!

waterfall near mt. st. helens.

our new travel buddy.

mt. st. helens salt and pepper shakers…before.

and after.

ma, pa and smartz at mt. st. helens.

July 9th, 2010 by sarah | 1 Comment »

mima mounds.

herc flowers and turtle.

ma and pa.

long beach.

herc and smartz!!

fort stevens.

supper.

seaside.

soo much taffy today!!

my parents arrive today from pennsylvania. they’ll be here for a week. this week will be full of…

donuts.

the pacific.

and mt. st. helens.

expect photos this week!!

i’m ready for move it! sort of. we’ve been contemplating moving closer to the print shop for a few months now. it’s about 25 miles to work one way. i think we’re going to actually make the move! well, we kind of have to make the move since we gave our current landlord our 30 day notice two days ago.

i’ve been pretty stressed lately due to work, hormones, paranoia and now i guess the move. i’m trying not to stress out about this. it should be fun! we’re planning on finding a place with one more room than we currently have so we can have craft and project room. we also wouldn’t mind having a deck, a fun front porch is also acceptable, a garage, and a backyard where there will be a fire pit.

today while browsing craigslist i found something that is pretty much just what we’re looking for. i think we’re going to go have a gander at it this week.

a nice kitchen to make baked goods in wouldn’t hurt either…

or some nice wall space for our art…

oh!!…and a nice room for my yellow furniture would make me happy!

even though the lynnwood flea market was creepy on many levels, we did walk away with a few fun things!!

we found some old postcards. the top left hand card is of mt. st. helens and spirit lake before the 1980 erruption. the top right hand card is a scene of the first civil war land battle. the bottom left hand card shows different varieties of desert cacti. and the last card is just a little squirrel that i couldn’t pass up.

i found an amish book for my mom and eric found a book of interest.

eric spied a little cat cup that will now be my new tea cup.

a quick stop at whole foods yielded some rather fun chocolate.

i also finally picked up the yellow klean kanteen i’ve had my eyes on.

there’s a vegan chocolate shop and shoe store that recently opened in greenwood. we’ve been meaning to get there for quite some time. we spied the store front yesterday while we were at the car show and couldn’t resist going inside!

they have some fun truffles, brittles, and peanut butter/almond bark varieties. we somehow didn’t give in to temptation and passed on the chocolate. they had some fun shoes there too. there were some birkenstocks, chuck’s from autonomie project…i own their blue chucks!!, some shoes from the company vegetarian shoes.

i’m friends with the chocolate shoebox on facebook so i knew they had belts there from couch. couch makes vegan belts and guitar straps. i’ve had my eye on their brown belt for a few months and finally gave in to it. i’m quite happy with it!! the last vegan belt i owned didn’t have the metal eyelets and very quickly started to fall apart. i’m quite pleased with this little guy!!

you can friend the chocolate shoebox on facebook to see what they’re up to and what new arrivals they have!! i’m sure we’ll be making a trip back there for some chocolate goodness in the near future!

yesterday we headed out to port townsend, wa for a civil war reenactment. eric was pretty exctited to go since he used to be a reenactor. i wasn’t feeling so hot in the morning, but as the day went on my fog lifted and i was able to enjoy the day!

the only other reenactment i went to was the cedar creek battle which we saw the on the first day of the moving trip. that was pretty fun to see! it was a fairly large reenactment, but i don’t have anything else to compare it to…but it looked like a big one to me! there were plenty of horses and the landscape was gorgeous as well.

eric did a more detailed acccount of yesterday on his blog. click click to see what he has to say and his photos!!

we met up with windy from the print shop and her boyfriend who is a reenactor. we actually found out about the port gamble event from her! this was the biggest battle of the year for these reenactors. it wasn’t nearly as big as the cedar creek battle, but they still put on a good show. they all seemed to have a great time too!

eric’s itchin’ to reenact again now. i think he’s just looking forward to the explosions. i guess i can’t really blame someone for that though…i like a good BOOM once in a while myself.

we took a ferry to port gamble.

camp.

yesterday we planned on going to a flea market and then to the world’s largest bead store. the flea market turned out to be a cruel joke. there was no flea market. nothing at all anywhere that looked like there was ever a flea market where the flea market was supposed to be. we then beat cheeks a little farther south to shipwreck beads. the store is pretty impressive, but a little overwhelming. we did a quick run through the store and left with about $20 worth of beads and supplies.

what now? eric was reading the map and suggested we head to mt. st. helen’s. and that we did!

the soso day of a non-existent flea market turned out to be a super day due to some quick thinking. mt. st. helens is really one of the coolest places we’ve been. we even found some pressed pennies and picked up some great mt. st. helens art at a show they were holding at the visitor’s center. later in the summer when more snow melts and more of the forest roads open, we’ll head back to the volcano to investigate some lava tubes, lakes, and just awesomeness that is mt. st. helens.

here’s a link to eric’s photos…click click here!!

the blast area.

see!! i made pressed pennies!

we're pretty ok with mt. st. helens.

pretty cool!

thank you phone!

flea market!

shipwreck beads!

ikea!