Jemma enjoys being difficult at Ray's Seafood. 

Here is the outgoing lock, there is another one like it to the left. You can see the original level of the water by the green slime on the concrete wall on the right side of the picture. 

Another outdoor picture from the locks... 

Here is the Ballard Locks fish ladder from the underwater viewing area. Soon these fish may become Ballard lox. 

Here we all are before heading out the Redmond. Nithin, Kerry and all 3 of their neices. 

Our first venture into Redmond

After visiting with Nithin and Kerry, we went to Redmond to see friends from grad school. Vaishali and I had both known Khisty (as we then knew her) and she introduced us. Her husband is the son of a tech-rep I had worked with in the Marine Corps.

All the kids enjoy their dinner. The missing one was napping upstairs. 

The "little disruptive one" fell asleep in the car and didn't bother us for 3 blissfull hours--after her nap she was very good.

Here is our Dahlia with their Dagney. 

Here is our Surenna their Maxwell.

Our first full day on vacation and getting there.

The start of this series begins with us flying from Boston to Seattle. On the first day my sister had to give a presentation in the middle of the day. We went to Seattle Center for the first half of the day and then came back to her house and then went to the beach. Start the photo series here for reverse order or go to the bottom of this posting date and then scroll up.

The beach was far more extensive that morning, but the tide waits for no man, nor child. The kids loved it anyway and found lots of shells. 

A long journey down to the beach, through a deep darksome wood. 

One girl had little pasta space needles, whats got butter on it. 

Yay! Lunch time! 

They so wanted to go in the fountain, but not just before lunch. Who wants to eat while soggy? 

We enjoyed the fountain from a distance. I think maybe this picture should be called Jemma's World. What kind of expression must she have as she gazes at her el dorado? She is after all a big lover of water.

And looked at some more art. 

And we looked at some art. 

We couldn't go up to lunch for an hour and a half, so we had a little snack.