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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

A Beautiful Day Outside

On Monday we enjoyed an absolutely GORGEOUS day outside (this while everybody in Utah woke up to snow...YUCK! No Thanks!) Ironic that the day Utah gets snow in late May is the first day we've been in Seattle where it was gorgeous all day and not one drop of rain fell! The weather here is actually great! I know everybody talks about how much it rains, and in the week we've been here we agree, it does rain quite a bit. But it doesn't last very long and it isn't pouring rain. If you think the weather in Utah is spastic and changes at the drop of a hat then you haven't been to Seattle...seriously...it is nuts. In just 10 days I have already learned to NEVER, I repeat, NEVER go anywhere without a jacket. No matter how beautiful and warm (or hot) it is when you leave the house...TAKE A JACKET!!!!

Anyway, now that I have given you my point of view on the weather in Seattle here is the real point of this blog post. On Monday it was beautiful outside and on Sunday somebody in our ward had told us about this great park/lake just a few miles from where we live. So we packed a picnic, took our mits, frisbees, etc and set off to the park. As I said, it was a beautiful day so there were lots of people there and it was so fun. We enjoyed a great picnic (all prepared by Richard) and then we played some catch. So in the middle of the park is a huge lake (there are lakes pretty much everywhere you look in Seattle) and it has a great walking/biking/rollerblading trail around it that is abouot 2 1/2 miles so after our picnic and catch we walked around that. It took us about an hour and it was so fun! We were sweating by the end (that is how nice of a day it was). :)

The view of the lake from where we were eating our picnic.

Smile!


"Simply Lemonade" was a GREAT deal at Sam's Club so we couldn't refuse and bought it as a treat. Richard wanted to bring some on our picnic and this is what my genius, engineer husband came up with. Love him! He is so smart!


TONS of turtles hanging out on the logs while we were walking around the lake.

2 comments:

vickie beary said...

It sounds like you are having so much fun. Don't do everything before we get there!!!

Emerson and Cassandra said...

That's funny about the weather; it's the same here. One second it's beautiful, the next minute you're in a hail storm...good times. And how lucky are you to have the husband pack the picnic, I love it when that happens! :)