catch up - seattle, portland, vegas and l.a.

kids -

i have been running around like a crazy girl for the past week and a half and now i am finally able to take a few minutes to get caught up.

jessica and i had such an amazing and fun trip. it went so fast and it was so great. i'll post blogs for each stop so i don't have 1 monster blog for it all.

also, jess will be guest writing about her experience as well. i thought that would be fun!

first post - seattle. we got to pass where twin peaks and northern exposure were filmed. it really is so beautiful up there. jess lives in issaquah which is about 45 minutes outside of seattle proper.

we enjoyed being lazy and hanging out. we had to go to staples to fax some stuff (there was a really nasty storm and jess's fax was broken) and we were greeted by a riley rooster who needed to make everyone well aware it was 2:45 pm. so he was running around the parking lot cock a doodle dooing away. it was so completely random and funny. at first we couldn't see him and then he came around the corner and just started tearing it up. it was awesome!

due to the storm we figured it was better to be safe than sorry so we didn't hit the interpol show that night. they close down bridges if the winds get too high. which was fine. we had dinner with jessica's mom - wendy and sister - talia. it was so great to catch up with all of them.

jess and i got up the next day with excitement for portland. on our way down the chocolate craze began. we stopped at a co-op and pretty much bought them out of any chocolate they had. we bought so much "travel food" that it was ludicrous. in fact, i still have 2/3rds of what we bought here with me in l.a.

next stop portland!