Weekend on Whidbey Island

We spent the weekend on Whidbey Island. Both Jason and I had never been there before. I had a sorority meeting and one of the gals in my group has a house in Lagoon Point. Another of the gals' in-laws have a place over there too which is next to Smuggler's Cove Bed and Breakfast. We got there late on Friday after taking the ferry over after work. We woke to our stunning view on Saturday morning. We had amazing weather all weekend.
I went to lunch with the girls over in Greenbank and got this great shot of Mt. Baker.

We went shopping in Langley then headed to Reggie's for a BBQ. She served up lots of beer margaritas. I thought it sounded awful too but they are not. I drank many of them, they were quite tasty!

The sunset at Lagoon Point last night....

We drove around today to see the bridge. I was not too thrilled to walk across it to get better pictures as heights really get to me.

A nice lady with her baby took a picture of us. We had a great time but are glad to be home with the dogs!

If you're going to San Francisco.....

We took a trip down to San Francisco for the long weekend. We had never been before and were really excited to check things out. We had lots of fun riding the cable cars. Waiting in line forever at the one place, not so much.
We went to Chinatown for some dim sum and chicken chow mein....

I loved watching the sea lions, they were everywhere. They smelled pretty bad though....

We went on a bay cruise so we could check out the Golden Gate Bridge. Fortunately, the fog lifted a little so we could see it...

We hiked up the hills to check out Lombard Street, the crookedest street...

We took the bus to Coit Tower and checked out the view of the bridge....we should have waited a little later for our bay cruise!

We got our picture taken at Coit Tower....

A local on the bus ride up told us about some stairs through a garden with wild exotic birds, I loved the parrots...I love Victorian Houses so we took the bus out of the city to check out the "Painted Ladies." Now everyone keeps telling me about it being in the back drop for Full House. So do not remember that!

We went to the Boudin Sourdough Factory Bistro for dinner. Jason chowed down on some clam chowder...

We went and got dessert at a great little chocolate shop....

We took the cable car to the BART station to go home. We were sad to leave and hope to visit again soon!

Who's in charge in our house?

Note: he has possession of both his raccoon and hedgehog. He has also gained possession of the goose and the squirrel. Hmmmmmmm....Notice, no big dogs in sight trying to take them back.

The best part about baths....

Dog pile in the bed! Once they stink, they're not allowed up there anymore!

The big party

We had our "House Re-Warming Party" so everyone could see the changes to the house. We had a full house so I didn't get a lot of pictures but I got a few good ones. Roscoe had fun playing in the backyard. So much so that he collapsed in front of the water bowl. Ceci tried to help him.
I started Snow White on the TV upstairs. You can see that everyone was enthralled. Well, the girls were....

The girls wanted Grami to watch too.....

Bryce and Sophie threw the hedgehog for Fonz...

I had mini-drumsticks for the kids. Sophie and Ceci thought they were pretty good!

Sunset over Queen Anne

We went to a wine tasting for my sorority at my friend's house on Queen Anne with a rooftop deck. This was the sunset from that vantage point. It was a beautiful night but we ended up freezing our butts off! The highlight of the evening was fireworks from a wedding, the display rivaled the show that Ivar's put on for 4th of July.

He's touching me..

They must have been pretty tired. I can't believe that I got close enough to take pictures of them this close together.