Shutterfly

I am addicted to making photo books on Shutterfly! It all started with me doing a survey about Shutterfly (I earned a $10 Amazon gift card for doing it!). Once I learned that I could make photo books my life was altered forever! So far I have made one of my Vegas Birthday and now I have made one from my Alaskan Cruise!!

My addiction is so bad that one of my friends said that she would consider not vacationing with me because she doesn't want to end up in a book. To that I say "Suck it, you are going to miss out on being FAMOUS!!"

FIRE!!

Today was a frightening morning! I was taking my normal bus to work this morning when it was stopped by a police barricade and about 8 firetrucks blocking our path. I couldn't see anything from the bus but once I got out and started walking across the Olive overpass I could see huge flames lighting up the dark sky!


Sadly I just read that 1 man died in the fire.

Going to Aliki

We went to Aliki Beach this afternoon. It was a lovely day, a tad windy but still very nice.

Here is Aunt Diane taking her own picture of the Seattle skyline.

Here is another picture of my mother feeding birds, she is always feeding birds!

I told you it was windy!

Taking my Aunt to Pikes Market

My Aunt Diane, Mom and Grandma came to visit this weekend. I took my Mom and Aunt to Pikes Market were we proceeded to taste test all the food that they had out. We ate a lot of nuts and jelly. Mom and Diane are trying olive oils.

Then we went on to eat fried things. Tasty mini donuts and fried gizzards!

Who's ready for more Dim Sum!?!?

Carmel and I were talking the other day and realized that we haven't eaten Dim Sum in awhile; so of course it was time to head to Jade Garden!! We had all my favorites; pork pastry pie and pineapple/Mango buns and Jenny ate one of hers Tripe (gross) Shannon does NOT eat cow stomach!

Smile pretty

This is one of Travis's favorites, he loves bean paste and what he calls waxy rice goo.

Afterwards Carla gave Jenny a little tutorial on how to put on eyeliner.

Shuffle up and Deal!

Last night we went and played Texas Hold'em at Sean and Amber's. We had a great time as usual; it was loud and boisterous just like I like it! After much game play it came down to a heads up game between Sean and myself. Our chip count was pretty equal and neither of us was giving up and just splitting it, one of us is going to have to take the other one out! When Sean went

all-in I was like, I will call. With a pair of 9's I took the game!!

$80 is all mine!

While the Poker tournament was going on the losers moved on to Cranium

Great Concert!

Carmel and I went to see Sara Barellis last night, what a fun concert! Sara sounded great and I loved her one of her opening bands. When I went down to buy Raining Jane's cd they were hanging around and I got them to sign my cd!

Music of the night

Last night Carmel, Carla, Jenny, Travis and I went to see Phantom! It was the second time that I saw it, I saw it on Broadway for my birthday a couple of years ago. We had a great time, sadly the Phantom wasn't as cute as Gerald Buttler but you can't have it all.
After the show we went and had happy hour at DragonFish and there we learned that they run on DragonFish time. Happy hour starts at 10pm but DragonFish isn't in the Pacific Time zone it is in the DragonFish time zone, which apparently is 15 mins later than Pacific time.

Upgrade

In the middle of our cruise we got the most amazing phone call! Would we like to be upgraded to a Deluxe Veranda Suite free of charge? Hell yeah we would!! Here is a tour of our new room. We thought our old room was spacious this one was out of control!

Sorry I look drug addled

Let's Zip!

We went on the most amazing excursion while we were in Ketchikan we went Ziplining!!! I had to talk my mom into it but we both had an AWESOME time! I want to Zipline everywhere I go!

It all started with a crazy ride the side of a hill to get to the Zip area.

Mom and I enjoying our ride!

I look so rockin' in my helmet!

Here I come!

This is my new boyfriend Justin he was our awesome guide he made our trip so much fun!

Mush!!

While we were in Juneau we went on a dog sledding excusion.at there summer musher camp. It was so much fun and you could really tell that the dogs loved pulling the sled. When we arrived the dogs were going nuts waiting for us to get in the sled so they could get to pulling!

Welcome to our room!

Before we left for our cruise I was a little nervious about the size that our room was going to be. You alyays hear about the rooms being super little, but I happy to report that our room was a decient size, we didn't have any problem with the size.

These beds were so comfortable and cozy.

Who wants to eat?

Here is a selection of some of the food that was consumed!

Seafood Crustini & Surf and Turf

Afternoon Tea & Tastey Sweet and Sour Pork

Baked Alaska & Bread Pudding

I LOVE Cruising!!!

Here we are on first day of cruising! We have just eaten our first meal of many on our vacation. I don't know if I can explain how much I Love cruising!! First of all it was a week long vacation (who doesn't love that), then it is all you can it any time you want to eat, plus while you are on your way to your destination you aren't stuck sitting in the back seat of a car or a tiny seat of an airplane you can lounge in your room, play some shuffleboard (I'm not good), join in a quiz game show (and come in 2nd place), gamble (I lost $10), eat (I did a lot that), or many many other things.

Almost time!!!

OMG tomorrow morning we leave for our cruise!! I just finished packing and am now trying to get my apartment in order so it's not a mess when Terry comes over to watch Maggie (thanks Terry). I can hardly wait!! My mother has gone over board with her packing; she has 2 check bags and 1 carryon. I on the other hand have 1 check and 1 carryon.

What should have been a leisurely morning tomorrow now is a little crazier. We went to Costco tonight so I could get a new camera, because my camera died right before my birthday back in April. So we get to Costco I look around and decide on the one that I want and the guy helps me get the paperwork so that I can pick it up after I pay for it. We dink around waiting for Travis's pictures to get developed and we then check out where I learn after I have paid for it that they are out of that model!!! I ask them to see if one of the other Costcos have one and the one in Lynnwood has 11 but they are closing in 20 minutes!! Well crap on a crutch, then the lady has the balls to say "if only I had come in earlier because they sold 6 today). I "return" my camera and ask when they open in the morning and they tell me 10 so we will be in the Costco parking lot at 9:55 ready and waiting to run in and buy my camera. Then we will head down to Mike's to drop off her car and have Mike take us to the boat. Mike just told us that he is super sick and will be wearing a mask when taking us because supposedly he is very contagious. Needless to say mom and I will either stick our heads out the window on the way there or we will be holding it the whole time!!!