so my eldest sis arrived on friday and dan and i went to pick her up at sea-tac airport. i packed stuff for the weekend's stay at gerri's house and i didn't wanna leave. i didn't know i would miss living in a proper house so much. with a room and kitchen and living room with big LCD HD TV and toilets. strange but true. now i just remembered the pictures from the weekend are in the other memory card and i happily forgot to upload them. ok next time then.
anyway summary of what we did during the weekend: friday we went back to gerri's house, sat and talked and talked. gerri and jie were catching up even though they just saw each other a month ago in singapore. i played with the kids. then we went to costco! its this big supermarket that sells everything in bulk. and its really in bulk and it's cheap! the things are so supersized it's scary.
we got groceries and stuff for dinner, then went back to the house and started cooking. soon gerri's neighbours came over with the kids in tow. it was noisy but so homely. reminds me of our parties at home. and i watched grey's anatomy on HD tv and it really makes a difference! i wish HDTV would come to singapore soon. it's so sad that sg is lagging so behind in terms of technology and media.
saturday we had breakfast of pancakes with strawberries, icing sugar, whipped cream, toast, sunny side ups and coffee. it was yummmyyy. and relaxing 'cos we weren't really rushing for time. which was nice. then we all packed into the car and drove to tacoma to visit the glass museum! it was really very nice. =) pictures would tell the tale better. then we drove northeast to a little city to horseback-ride! it was fun fun fun. i love horses. we all had a horse each and we went into the trails in the forest and we saw mt. rainier! it was nice and a very interesting experience. then we had dinner at a thai place in issaquah. good food. =)
sunday we went to downtown seattle 'cos my sis wanted to go borders to get her choral CDs. then my 2nd sister landed in seattle and we met her at her hotel. a starbucks venti hazelnut latte helped her with jet lag. haaa. then we drove to a winery called chateau ste. michelle and we went for a wine tour! complete with free wine tasting. after that we had time to kill before dinner, so we went to seattle art museum's olympic sculpture park to check out the sculptures and walk around the waterfront. =) dinner was at cheesecake factory. yummm. we did wait like 45 mins for a table.
so that was the weekend.
now for the first part of the week. monday. after my class, i came home for lunch before heading out to meet my eldest sis at the hotel to go to space needle. it was a beautiful clear day with amazing blue skies.
waiting to take the lift up the space needle.
the olympic mountains in the distance. they lie west of seattle.
reflection.
the waters that surround seattle. it's so blue.
downtown seattle, the safeco fields and mt. rainier. all representative of seattle. the day was so clear i could capture mt. rainier. =) my sisters brought the sunshine from singapore.
me and my eldest sis. =)
downtown seattle and the queen anne hill neighbourhood.
the eastern cascades, lying east of seattle. now that's why seattle gets so much rain. 'cos it's smacked right between 2 huge mountain ranges.
the sun was hot, according to my well-acclimatized body.
the beautiful rainier.
then my 2nd sis joined us at the needle after her lunch with microsoft people.
the needle from below.after the needle, since it was such a beautiful day, and since my 2nd sis and i are huge grey's anatomy+derek shepherd fans, we decided to go sit the ferry boats! this is for mr. derek i-have-a-thing-for-ferryboats shepherd. =)
the port authority of seattle with the safeco fields. =)
downtown seattle, pike place, waterfront.
away from shore, on our way to bainbridge island.
ferryboat! =)
i'll leave till the next post for bainbridge island pics and the rest.a lot of work to do!! and i'm getting excited about travelling, getting upset about leaving seattle.
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