The light shining in the windows in the living room woke me around
5:30. Though annoying, it was a partial blessing,
because light had been streaming in since 4a.
I had anticipated this and slept with a towel over my face. So as frustrated as I was to be awoken so unnecessarily
early, I had received more than I normally would have gotten.
I had borrowed Joy’s laptop to get my seminary homework done that
weekend. My IT department was working on
mine and so I couldn’t—and didn’t want to—bring it to Seattle. I typed out my forum post which I would post
later when I got over to Joy’s house with internet access. I knitted some more rows on my square and
worked on memorizing a few more verses of Psalm 139, another class
requirement. Amy woke up and made us
some hot chocolate. Yes, Amy is such a
chocolate lover, that there are no qualms about having it for breakfast. After Heidi woke up a little later, we
started to figure out the day’s plans.
Joy wanted to run with me while we were both up here. Amy was open to running, but since Heidi’s
knee issues prevent her from running, they were planning to power walk. Amy’s uncle lives in striking distance of
Green Lake with a running route of its perimeter, but Joy also had a route near
her school to consider. It ended up that
Amy and Heidi walked around Green Lake while Joy and I ran the canal route by
her school.
I was so glad Joy and ran her route.
It wove a little through the Queen Anne district and ended with us sprinting
up a short hill opening to a beautiful view of Puget Sound. And it was so great to get some solo time for
the two of us. It’s amazing how we’ve
bonded over our road and air trips to Seattle, and being the two kids that went
away to school.
After showering and a lazy slow late morning breakfast, we ended up
late on the road to the big family dinner at Gram Helen’s apartment. Thankfully Gram has never cared about people
being punctual. We arrived and greeted
my grandma, uncles, aunt and cousins. We
had a wonderful afternoon with all of them.
I had told Amy and Heidi to bring walking shoes to Gram’s place. I hadn’t told them the plan, but Joy
remembered as we walked into the complex.
As we left, I made sure we left ahead of Mom and Dad. This was a thing that started 11 years ago
between my sister Rachel and me. We went
exploring one day while visiting up here over Spring break my senior year of
high school. We discovered that the
access to the roof was not secured in this complex and took much delight in
being able to get up there and goof off atop a 3-story building. I come up here every visit for a beautiful
view of the surrounding landscape, and was glad to get to share this ridiculous
tradition with Amy and Heidi. I had
showed it to Joy on our road trip here four years ago. We took pictures and then climbed down to
leave.
Joy directed us to a game shop, where they not only sell games, but
have hundreds of open games and about 15 tables available for people to play
the games free of charge. Before we
started, we walked down the street for some frozen yogurt. The game store had Dominion, so I taught the
game to the girls, and I think they all liked it. Heidi won, just barely ahead of Amy. Then we played a few rounds of Legretto (similar
to Nertz) before packing it up. Joy took
us on a short walk out to a beautiful vista looking out at the night skyline of
Seattle. We stopped by the grocery store
for Amy to grab supplies for a family dinner she would cook at her uncle’s
house tomorrow after the graduation, and then we went home to again crash after
another wonderful but long day.
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