The second sister trip in less than a year has come to an end! It was a blast, but I will get to that in a minute. First - other life! Adam had a filling done at his regular pediatric dentist, and we did not know if it would work out. They gave him some laughing gas so they could administer the freezing needle, that part went pretty smoothly. We waited for the freezing needle to do it's thing and then the dentist moved in to do the filling. This is where Adam decided he was kind of done with this whole process. He didn't flail around physically which was what allowed the dentist to finish the job, but he was definitely complaining the whole time. I'm just grateful it got done! Every time he does something he hasn't done before it feels like progress, very proud of him!
The hockey playoffs started the week of the 21st, and things didn't look good for the Oilers early. They lost the first two games to the Kings and it was starting to look like maybe this wasn't going to be our year. Thankfully, they turned things around and won some exciting games in Edmonton over the weekend. I went to Centralia Saturday for my 16s regionals tournament. It went okay, had it's ups and downs. Soph (my setter) hurt her ankle the first game and didn't play the rest of Saturday. It was a bit of a situation but Kyra did really well in relief. We went 2-1 that first day which was enough to get us in the gold bracket Sunday. We unfortunately lost our first game (Soph was playing, although not at 100%) which put us in a consolation bracket at that point. The good thing about that was that our last game was pretty early and if we won, we would be able to go home and not ref. The girls rallied together and played a great game to win in 2 sets! I was so happy! It meant I would be home for most of game 4, which ended up being super exciting - an overtime win by the Oilers after tying it with 30 seconds to go! Great weekend:-D.
Monday and Tuesday I was busy getting the house ready to have my sisters here. Andy had been here until Tuesday so I had a day to get the room turned over for my sisters. They got in Wednesday around 1 and we came back to our house, hung around outside catching up. We had dinner here and an early night. Thursday we had beautiful weather and drove up to Mount Vernon to Roozengarde - finally I got to see the tulips! It is right at the end of the festival so lots of the tulips are already gone, but it was still quite a beautiful garden. Mary's friend Deb joined us as well which was really fun, I knew her a bit back in my Prairie days. After the tulips we drove to La Conner for lunch. We found a nice restaurant with a patio and enjoyed the sunshine and good food. The plan at that point was to drive to Coupeville and get right on the 4:15 ferry to Port Townsend where we were spending the night. I had looked on the ferry website last week and somehow did not see that this ferry route requires reservations. We found out the hard way when we got there that they do indeed take reservations, and standby wait would be until 7:30:-l. Yikes! We had a little conference and decided that instead of waiting by the ferry for nearly 4 hours we would go into Coupeville for about an hour and hope that when we got back, we would still be good to go for the 7:30 ferry. We wandered through Coupeville, had some ice cream, made our way back to the ferry around 5pm. Unfortunately, they told us we would probably be waiting until the 9:10 ferry. Ugh. At that point, I told Mary and Becky to get on the 7:30 as foot passengers and if I squeezed on in the van I would see them there. The car in front of me got on, I did not:-(. It all worked out okay, Mary and Becky got checked into our room in Port Townsend and went to get some food before everything closed (they got me a takeout meal which was awesome). I had the hockey game on my phone so I was able to watch that and not be bored waiting for the ferry:-D. Great game! A little too exciting at the end when LA scored to make it 5-4 with a minute to go, but it all worked out haha. Oilers are moving on to Round 2!
Our hotel was really cute! Very old school. The room was a bit bright in the morning, but all in all not a bad find. We had coffee in the morning at this really cute coffee shop by the water and wandered around Port Townsend for a while. Found a really interesting underground area with a few shops - so random. We got in the van around noon and drove down to Bainbridge Island to get the ferry over to Seattle. This time, the ferry worked out perfectly! We only waited about 20 minutes before driving right on:-D. We had lunch right by the Great Wheel, walked through Pike Place Market for a bit. Then it was time to get home and have some down time after a great few days of sight seeing. We went to Target in the evening to do some shopping, Lynsey and Nathan came along as well and I got a few things for them as well as myself. Mary and Becky also found some great things - always a success shopping at Target!
Yesterday was a very laid back day. We went to the gym in the morning and did Body Pump together, took Jasper for a short walk. Had some lunch at home and went to Farine (while Lynsey was working of course) for coffee. After that we drove into Kirkland and walked around the marina for a while. A quick stop at Trader Joe's and then back home for some more downtime. A delicious dinner all together at Tropea in Redmond capped off a really fun trip! Mary went out that night with her friend Bob for a few hours and Becky and I stayed in a watched a (dumb) movie. Early trip to the airport this morning and the trip is over! It was so much fun, other than the ferry debacle everything worked out very well:-D.
Today we did some yard work and I have been resting a lot as well after being a bit short on sleep. This week it's back to volleyball practices and regular life without visitors!
