Into the States, across the Sound, meeting new friends....

Day 7:

So, David fell asleep early tonight, so I get to write the blog for today.

It feels like we've been on this wonderful family vacation for much longer than a week.

 Actually the movers took all our things away about 17 days ago, so technically we've been "moved out" of our home for over two weeks. 

 Every day in the RV we get more and more organized. The first few days when the movers were packing everything it was a constant frenzy of "saving" things we needed for the trip or for cleaning up the old house. The result was, having way more things jammed into the RV than we actually need. But each night we get a little more organized and a little less junk. 

 

Rebekah has been super helpful in the organizing department. I didn't know she was so detail oriented.

So, this morning we woke up in the beautiful Fraser Canyon in British Columbia. I know David mentioned how amazing it is, but seriously, I never even knew it was here. As Americans, we are kind of proud of our own country so much so that we neglect the education of our youth of the majesty of ALL of God's creation, even in other countries. 

Today we drove this behemoth out of Canada (sad) and into our home country, the United States of America! Washington is ... rainy. But they have the things we are used to, Burger King, Albertsons, familiar street signs, post boxes that are blue instead of red, and gas by the gallon. 

It was another rainy day in Seattle when the Snethen Seven visited the Space Needle.

David took us into Seattle, downtown, in our gigantic motor home. On those tiny streets God provided a very big, very close, very safe, and very cheap parking spot right across the street from the Space Needle and a very neat place, the EMP Museum, in downtown Seattle.  I've never heard of it, but they had a totally awesome Battle Star Galactic exhibit, and a cool Avatar exhibit as well. The kids loved it. We arrived an hour before closing and made the most of it. The kids got to do this motion capture thing that demonstrated the technique they used to make the movie. If I can I'll post the link to the YouTube video they made. 

Kimberly, creating her own Avatar video at the Seattle EMP Museum.

After the museum we hit up a gift shop and got a Millennium Falcon bumper sticker for the van and May the Force Be With You sticker for the RV.  We then took the Bainbridge Island Ferry across the Sound to Poulsbo where we had dinner at the very cheap, very fulfilling gourmet restaurant, Burger King. The kids meals where only $1.99 each, and the value meals where under $5!!!! Alaska people know what I'm talking about! 

David & Daniel leaving Seattle, on board the Bainbridge Island Ferry.

 

I walked to Albertsons with Kimi and on the way we made a little friend, Sheldon. Sheldon, the snail . Kimi had never seen a snail. It's too cold in Fairbanks for them to live there. She was in love! But, alas, the road is no place for a snail, so we had to let him go, after we carried him all over the grocery store showing him off to everyone we could meet! 

Kimberly and her friend, Sheldon.

In the dark, again, we tried to find the RV park David had picked out for us. When we arrived it was dark, and full so we went to a different one down the street. It's level, and quiet, and has a little green grass lawn next to each spot. The mist and the dark made it not so good an idea for the kids to play outside, so instead we did some play dough time inside while Beka and I organized the RV and the camp host helped David get us all hooked up.

Tomorrow we are driving through Forks, Washington, the setting for the Twilight series!!!! I am super excited about this! To celebrate we watched the first Twilight movie with the kids,  the younger three were asleep in minutes, and so was David, which is why I get to write the blog tonight. But there is no internet here, so it will have to be posted tomorrow, maybe from the laundry mat, because we have so much dirty laundry it's coming out our ears!!! 

PS. Ben's favorite part of the movie was when they played baseball, but he says it was weird and that he just didn't get it. When do they make her a vampire? I told him, next month. Tehe!

Miss all of our dear friends up north terribly! Can't wait to see all our old friends down south soon! Love you all! Keep following our blog!

Jenny