Seattle Days 5-9

Day 5 The church is till true in Washington! We went to church with the Carrolls and while Rory and Paige had a buddy to go to class with I was left on my own since Shelley is in Primary. We had good meetings and then afterwards someone in their ward must own a bread route or something because they fill up the kitchen with all sorts of bread, bagels, rolls, donuts etc. available for anyone to take home. So the whole ward stocks up and I think each of the kids had at least 2 bags that they were carrying out to the car. 

Day 6 Monday we just took it easy, stayed home and did some much needed laundry. Adam got sunburned pretty bad while clamming so we stayed inside for his sake while the rest of the crew played outside most of theday. The van was in the shop getting a dvd player put in anyway to make the trip to Utah easier so we just hung out. Some of Shelley's friends from Mesa stopped in for the night while they were on vacation. I knew the girl too from doing scrapbooking with her and Shelley. 

 

Day 7 Tuesday was also pretty low key. Shelley's friends left after breakfast and we hung around the house where Rory has become quite the Wii player. She watched the boys play for a long time then when she got her turn it didn't take long to figure it out. She even won a few times! Later in the evening when we went to another park nearby that had a big spiderweb type rope climbing thing. They have the greatest parks here and they are everywhere! 

Day 8 Wednesday we went to the Science Center in downtown Seattle. In fact it is right next to the Space Needle which we will go back an see on another day. They had a special exhibit about the circus, it was really cool. Rory got to walk across a tight rope, and all the kids dressed up in circus costumes. 

We also saw the IMAX 3D movie about the Hubbell telescope. It was really amazing to see all the pictures it took of things thousands of light years away, I don't know how you can see that and not think there it an almighty creator. They also had a tropical butterfly house that we got to go in and have hundreds or beautiful butterflies all around us.

 Shelley has a membership so we will probably go back again to see the rest of the exhibits we didn't have time for this trip. That night some girls in Shelley's ward were doing a movie night so we left all the kids with Nathan and went over there to watch When in Rome.     

Day 9 Thursday It is cold and rainy again today, hard enough that we could see it in the pond. We even turned on the heater this morning. We went to the store to get more milk and eggs since go through it so fast ( I can't imagine why) then we went to the library to let everyone pick out some books and get signed up for the summer reading program. When we were driving back home I saw a sign that said the temperature was 56 degrees and it was 12:30 and it is summer! The kids read a book about the story of the minotar then went out to play most of the afternoon anyway and I guess the boy were rustling the bushes because they girls now think there is a minotar that lives out in the woods behind their house. We watched a movie from redbox tonight. I think Caleb is getting even more sick so we'll try and take him to the doctor in the morning.