Back to Seattle

While I was in New York, my father had a week long business conference in Seattle.  My mother took the opportunity to join his trip to Seattle, so while my father sat through long meetings, my mother toured the town visiting museums and site seeing.

Chihuly Glass Museum

On one of the nights, my parents saw Wicked for their very first time, and of course they loved it.

The Graves at Sleepy Hollow

The highlight of my business trip to Tarrytown, New York was the visit my co-worker and I paid to the Sleepy Hollow cemetery.  The church at the cemetery and the cemetery itself are so full of history.  Both Washington Irving (writer of the "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow") and Andrew Carnegie (a famous American businessman) are buried here.  But what put me in absolute awe was all the grave sites of the veterans that fought in the revolutionary war.  Here I was standing in front of grave sites of people who were not only alive during the American revolution, but fought and gave up so much to make our country.  I was moved with emotion that even though these veterans' weather worn grave stones are now covered with moss, discolorations, and cracks, their graves are honored with American flags and plaques commemorating their service. 

Super Storm Sandy

Last week a co-worker and I traveled to Tarrytown, New York to audit a company.  We just so happen to be there when the super storm Sandy hit New York.  The strong winds cause many trees to fall and power outages.  Luckily, my hotel's power stay on!  Sick of watching news reports all day, my co-worker and I decided to create our own news report on the storm.  Check out our video.

Road trip to Victoria, Canada

My grandparents are currently serving a LDS mission in Granite Falls, Washington.  My father decided that we needed pay them a visit and make a road tip out of it.  So in August, my parents, Jonathon, Jasen, and I all ventured out to the North West.  For the road trip, we went through Boise, Idaho, visited my grandparents in the Seattle area, camped the San Juan Islands and toured Victoria, Canada.

While in the Seattle area, we toured the Boeing manufacturing plant and paid a visit to Pike's Place Market.

Check out the market's gum wall:

After Seattle, we took a ferry to the San Juan Islands.

When we arrived on the San Juan Islands, we took a 3-hour whale watching boat tour.  Sadly, we did not see any whales, but there was a lot of wild life to observe.

On the islands, we camped,

looked for marine life in tide pools,

and visited the American and British camps (from the late 1800's)

The island had so much character!

From the islands, we took another ferry to Victoria, Canada.

In Victoria, we went through the Royal BC Museum, 

strolled through the enchanted Butchart Gardens,

 

visited the Craigdarroch castle with it's exquisite interior wood work (Jasen was in heaven here),

and browsed the downtown.