The End of Spring Vacation

It isn’t as good as the beginning but yet it means only 9 more weeks of school and then summer will be here, believe it or not. Since I was a full-time babysitter for the week I decided to babysit in a place other than my home so Lucas and I drove off to the Seattle area on Monday. I was kind of worried that perhaps I had too much responsibility with someone’s child for 5 days but I soon realized that Lucas was not going to let me go astray in any way. We had not gone 5 minutes from his house when from his back seat perch he peeked between the seats and announced that I only had half a tank of gas. Luckily we were able to fill the tank in Ritzville so he could have fewer items of concern. It is very reassuring to have someone else checking up on the driving details for you but it immediately reminded me of Bill’s mom who insisted upon filling the gas tank every time it dropped to a half tank.

When we arrived in Seattle we headed for the Pacific Science Center where we spent 5 hours and I guess we would have stayed longer but it was closing at 5. The Space Needle turned out to be more scary for Grandma than for Lucas because he kept running from place to place and all I could imagine is that he would find a trap door to fall from. The elevator operator assured me that no one had fallen but I checked Wikipedia and there have been 3 suicides from the tower and 6 base jumpers.


We spent the first two days at Linda’s where we also played on the windy beach near Mulkiteo, the place I know you remember as the spot where you helped Grandpa fish. Wednesday we went to the Seattle Aquarium where Lucas was fascinated by a huge fish tank with not only fish but a SCUBA diver who held the fish, fed the fish and peered nose to nose with the children pressing faces against the glass.

We arrived at Cyd’s later that day to spend time with the twins until Friday when headed home. The secret weapon for the trip was the iphone with many new apps for game playing. In fact Lucas asked if he could come to my computer first so he could download new games before he saw his parents and brother. I’m now changing my itunes password as there isn’t much memory left for many more games.

It is time to start fussing about Memorial Day. I wonder if everyone is planning to be there? It is nice that the menu is in Leslie’s capable hands. Anna Marie found a conference to attend that weekend so the boys are looking forward to camping in a tent and I’m sure they’d like to paint t-shirts again. Miles may cause us to shorten our attendance time but you never can tell.