Seattle Part 7: Back to the Wilderness

After we crossed over on the ferry the girls kindly demanded that we stop for coffee. The boys stated that "we will stop once we get further out" since there was going to be "traffic" off the ferry. Well the further out we got the more apparent it became that our chances of finding a coffee were dwindling. Fortunately for every one's happiness we soon happened across one of those one room drive up coffee huts at a gas station. Five minutes later with Mochas in hand we walked smiling back to the car (much to the relief of Ben and Zach I'm sure).

So here begins another trip on the road...

with coffee...

and later on some breakfast.

I realize it has been awhile since I've posted photos from our trip, and don't worry there are more to come. Some of my favorite are coming up next...

An update in numbers

                 

0: the number of photographs this weekend.

2: the number of times I flew off the tube (once due to my brother's purposeful flipping of the tube, and once due to my inability to hold on anymore so I simply told my fellow passengers, "I am letting go" and then I did

1: the number of times I got whiplash from the above.

30: the number of seconds it took me to fall asleep last night after spending all day on the lake.

3: the number of times I have reapplied aloe to my burnt shoulders

13: the number of pages I have read in my new book.

1: the number of hours until my husband will get home.

45: the number of minutes until I order a pizza for the husband to pick up. Late night pizzas qualify as a date night.

5: the number of times I have looked at my bag thinking, "I should really just unpack it."

0: the number of things I have unpacked

2: the number of fans attempting to cool down our apartment.

2. the number of braids in my hair

4: the number of green tomatoes on my plants.

3: the number of cups of coffee/iced coffee consumed today

45: the minutes I slept away during my afternoon nap.

3: the number of speedminton games I played yesterday

?: the number of fireworks booming across the sky (I've lost count)

I hope everyone is having a lovely weekend so far...

Fireworks.

We are off to the lake for about a day and a half. We weren't even expecting for Ben to have that much time off so we are happy to be able to go at all. Now all it has to do is be nice and hot tomorrow...and then maybe I will jump in the lake. maybe.

In honor of our patriotic holiday I baked some sugar cookies and had my first royal icing experience/experiment. Thankfully, Bekah stopped by just in time to help with the icing. Our first few cookies looked pretty rough. But after a few alterations to the icing we were able to call it a success. Now for those of you that have seen the cover of Martha Stewert's magazine please do not compare her perfect cookies to our more "organic looking" ones. We prefer the hap-hazard look to her perfect "fireworks"....

and for those of you who were impressed, a good majority of our cookies ended up like these below.

not so pretty. 

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend :)

oh and you can get the recipe/instructions here.