Bellingham

So last weekend we ventured out for our annual Bellingham pilgrimage. Britt lived in Bellingham for five years and I spent 7 summers and about 2 full years living up there. We enjoyed living there but didn't like the fact that it was so far away from most of our friends and family down south. It's still fun to go visit our friends and get the B-ham experience.

So our weekend began with a drive up Friday night......about 3.25-3.5 hours. We made good time because I decided to go with the flow of traffic in Seattle.....you get passed like you're standing still even at 70! Saturday morning we got up and headed to Lake Samish-home of Ryan Stiles (he has a nice house w/ a big fence) and the home lake of the WWU rowing team. Brittany rowed for four years and loved her experience. Every now and then she'll have a chance to get back in the boat and have some fun. Saturday was one of those days and also about 70 degrees outside. Fun for Britt and it made the girls (all alumni) think about putting a Master's boat together sometime in the future.

Then our trip got really interesting.....we headed to the roller derby, which we didn't even know existed. Overall it was really fun but it reminded us of how weird Bellingham really is. It was fun to see and kind of a cool sport but by no means an event that I would regularly take me child to. Lots of innuendo happening and an unhealthy endorsement of beer with that many kids around.

Post derby we went out to Thai food with our friends Shaun and Tara which was a double bonus. One we like hanging out with them and second, there's not any good Thai food in Longview. Before we headed out of town we ate at Boomer's and had an excellent burger and waffle fries. Mmm. We then headed to the Tulip Festival in Mt. Vernon with our friends Robin and Alan. Most of the tulips were still closed up because of the crazy weather but the daffodils were out and just as beautiful.





Oh yeah-I saw this guy on the way home....I think I could have taken him.