April Recap

Sorry it’s been awhile. Rumel has posted pictures and the details from our awesome road trip to Washington. It was so great to get away from work for a few days and spend time with my hubby! We had a blast in Ellensburg, Seattle, and Boise. The worst part of the trip was that the blinker switch in my car would just randomly click and keep clicking forever. At points It made for a REALLY long car ride, especially when the warning tone would ding and not stop. But we got that fixed ($700 later) once we got home. Thanks again to Trevor and Kari for putting us up and letting us come and crash the baptism. It was so great to get to spend time with you guys. I’m glad that Rumel was able to get to know you guys better. I can’t wait for Bear Lake!!!!
A lot of people are probably wondering if anything happened with Biggest Loser. Well, a week or so after the auditions here in SLC the casting director that I met with called me and told me that she wanted to make sure that I did an audition video. So Rumel and I bought a video camera and went to work. We finished it in about a week and got it sent off. I was in contact with Barb (the casting director) and she let me know that she got it and sent it on to the powers that be. The deadline to hear anything back was the 23rd. Unfortunately, I didn’t hear anything from the show. But that is okay because Rumel and I are going to get in shape together. And if I would have been on the show I would have missed all the fun vacations and family stuff this summer. And who knows, maybe I’ll try again for the next show but for now things happened the way they were supposed to.
So since my last post, we celebrated my 25th birthday. I was spoiled royally by my cute hubby. We got the video camera as part of my birthday present and I also got new glasses. Then when we were in Seattle I got a new fabulous purse and lots of clothes. On my actual birthday, we celebrated Easter and conference the same day. We invited Lisa over to dinner with us and then watched the last session of conference together. Lisa then help us film the last little bit of my video. It was a great birthday and past few weeks! Hope all is well with everyone!

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From the ferry we could see Mt. Rainer which is over 14,000 ft tall

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The Bainbridge ferry. This boat can hold hundreds of cars and a few thousand people. It was really fun to ride across to Bainbridge.

The space needle from the ferry

Downtown from the ferry

The rest of downtown from the ferry

From Baingridge looking back at Seattle

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Pike's place

Throwing a fish

Shipping cranes

A big boat (each of those boxes is the size of a semi-truck trailer)

Another big boat & the cranes

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Heidi at the Ballard locks

Me

Depending on the tide the level of this lake and the ocean can be several feet different so they built these locks for ships to pass through. A ship such as this tug boat come in from the lake, the close the lock, open some valves and gravity pulls the water out of the lock.

Once the water is out and the level in the lock is the same as it is on the outside then the open the next set of gates and the boat can head out into the ocean. While we were there the difference between the ocean and the lake was about 30 ft. It was really cool to watch the boats come in and go out.

Here is some sort of fishing boat that was coming in from the ocean

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Both of us up top

A shot from underneath

from the hotel at night

Safeco and Qwest field. This is where the Mariners and the Seahawks play.

Downtown from on top of the needle

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Heidi got us a deal on an awesome hotel in downtown Seattle. This is a view of the space needle from our hotel window/balcony.

Here is a zoomed in photo of the Space Needle from out hotel room.

Heidi and the space needle

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A view of downtown from on top of the space needle

Road Trip

A few weeks ago we took a road trip up through Boise, stopped in Washington to see Heidi's brother and his family then we continued on to Seattle. We spent two night and two days in Seattle and it was awesome. We couldn't have hit better weather, for the most part while we were there the sun was shining and we only saw a few drops of rain. While we were there we went up in the Space Needle, walked around downtown, rode the monorail, saw the Ballard locks, went to Pike's Place, met up with some old friends, took the Bainbridge ferry and had a great time. We started making our way back home Saturday morning and stopped back in Ellensburg for Lorin's baptism. Heidi's parents had driven up for it as well so it was great for a good portion of the family to be together for it. We spent the next night in Boise and the next day drove over to the Boise State campus so we could look around and pick up a few things. It was raining that day so we didn't get to see the smurf turf or anything but it was still great to walk around a little. We made a detour on the way home and stopped in Pocatello to meet up with my family for dinner and then continued on to SLC. It was a great trip and we hope to make another journey up north in the not to distant future.