Seattle

I finally made the trip up to Seattle at the end of September to visit my sister and family. It had been way too long and I don't want to let that happen again.

I got there around lunch time on Sunday and Jen had made an appointment for me to get a makeover at Bare Essentials! It was great! I loved it so much that I decided to buy everything they used on me. What an awesome investment and I still love the new makeup. That night we went to church and then met up with my cousin Lisa and my aunt Beth for dinner.

On Monday, Jen had to go to work. I got ready and walked down to have lunch with her. We ate in Post Alley near Pike Place Market. Then I hung out downtown shopping and walking around until Jen got off work. We went to Anthropologie and it is now one of my favorite places! Jen got a new lampshade and I tried on fun dresses. We then went and saw the movie, "The Women" and ate popcorn and candy for dinner! Hehe!

On Tuesday, I went downtown again to meet Jen for lunch. This time I walked back up to the apt and up QueenAnne hill! I must have been nuts! I was so out of breath, sweating and sore after that climb. I got my exercise for the next month after that! We made it a lazy night and just hung out at the apt downloading music to each others ipods. My sisters neighbor, Margaret came for a visit and we had lots of laughs.

The next morning Jen and I headed to our customary breakfast at Noah's Bagels. Then I dropped her off at work and headed back to Tri-Cities. I helped my parents with last minute things to get ready for our company from Norway to fly in that night!

Journey Concert

In Northbend

As I was looking back through my old posts, I realized that I never shared about the awesome concert I went to in September with my friend Rachelle. About 4 months before the concert, I heard something on the radio that caught my ear. I decided to look it up and found out that Journey, Cheap Trick and Heart were going to be performing together in Seattle. I had to jump at the chance to see them and my friend Rachelle from work was just as excited as I was. I was able to get that Friday and Saturday off from work, however I was nice enough to keep my call Saturday night.

We took off Friday morning and headed straight to North Bend to go shopping at the outlet mall. We took our sweet time going from store to store and had a great time. Then we headed to the hotel to check in and fix ourselves up for the concert. We took off later then what we wanted and boy was that a mistake. We got stuck in traffic for over an hour and were late getting into the concert. Thank goodness we didn't know Cheap Trick very well and that was what we missed out on. We got right in and decided to buy our souvenir shirts before there was a long line. I don't know if we had great seats or if it was the amphitheater. Rachelle and I had a blast! We took total advantage of jumping and screaming and singing at the top of our lungs! Both Heart and Journey were awesome! The new lead singer for Journey did a great job and had so much energy.

At the concert!

We were told we couldn't bring in cameras and so these pics are taken with my cell phone. The close-ups are from two big screens on either side of the stage.

Lori's Wedding

I left the family vacation a day early so I could head back to Tri-Cities and go to a wedding. The wedding was for my friend Lori who I went through the x-ray program with. I was very excited to go because people from school were going to be there and a lot of them I hadn't seen since we had graduated a year ago.

Since I was on the Oregon coast, I was able to get a ride back with my friend Chelsie who lives in the Portland area. We got into town pretty early and had lunch with Leah and Jesse and then met up with another friend at the mall. Then we headed back to Chelsie's parents house to get dressed. You should have seen four girls all trying to get ready at the same time!

I think one of the funniest things that happened was the thunderstorm we got caught in. Right when we got there, we heard this huge clap of thunder. Not soon after we sat down, it started raining and then pouring huge elephant sized drops. They passed out umbrellas and people went running for cover. All of us from school huddled together under the umbrellas and waited out the storm. Mind you this was no normal storm with the amount of water that fell from the sky and the thunder that shook the ground. All of us were pretty much soaked and every time someone turned slightly, water would go down someones back! We had a great time laughing and finally not caring how wet we were. They announced that they would wait 20 min to see if the storm would pass otherwise they would go ahead with the wedding, rain or shine!! Thankfully it did stop and ended up turning out beautiful.

It was so great to see everyone from class. About half of the class made it, which was about 14 people. Lori was so excited to see all of us and gave us all hugs over and over again. We were able to catch up to see if everyone had jobs, did they like where they worked and where they were living. We all called it an early night, but not without promising to keep in touch. Chelsie, Jesse and I headed back to Chelsie's parents and ended up playing Rockband and having a blast! Haha!Leah, Chelsie and Cecelia blowing bubbles

Chelsea and Leah

Chelsie and I

Jesse and I

Who needs a wedding ring!