Kaitlyn & her Roommate Meghann

Kaitlyn and Meghann are all settled in Neils Hall - C1 at Concordia. The decorating phase hasn't begun yet, so I'm excited to see how these blank walls transform when I head back to Portland next month. Neils Hall is very different from your standard dorm room. It is set up more like a duplex. There are 5 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms in her "dorm". There is also a full kitchen and lounge area. 2 bedrooms and a bathroom are downstairs where the kitchen and lounge is located - this is where Kaitlyn and Meghann live. There are 3 more bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs as well. Neils is a collection of 4 of these units. 2 are like Kaitlyn's and then the other 2 have a living room and dining table in place of the kitchen area. Pretty cool set up. The bedrooms are really small though, but isn't that what college dorm life is all about?? So far the girls are going through 3 days of orientation. Classes begin on Tuesday.....Good Luck Girls on your Freshman Year in College!

Kaitlyn's last Sunday at Home :(

My baby is leaving for college this weekend! Sad! But before she could leave, we spent one of her only days off out on the lake! It was a hot (90+) day and what better place to be than on the water! Charlie tried wakeboarding and was up on his very first try. Then we headed over to Andrews Bay and all enjoyed the water and the sunshine!

San Juans 2010

Before we even left for our annual week-long vacation to the San Juan Islands, we had a little trouble with the puppy dog. Bailey really did a number on his back. He was unable to walk on Thursday and he had an emergency visit to the Vet that night. He got lots of doggy drugs and strict orders to stay in a cage for 30 days or he could be permanently damaged. At this point, he had lost feeling in his back legs, but the Vet was hopeful the feeling would return if he stayed quiet and basically immobile for a month. Great! Just what I needed before leaving on vacation! Kaitlyn was also leaving for vacation with her boyfriend Charlie's family. My Mom had agreed to keep Bailey for a week, but with his current condition, that wasn't going to work out. Thankfully, my best friend, Terri, agreed to bail me out. I knew that if I stayed home, I might have a happy dog, but an unhappy husband, probably headed for divorce court! So, since Terri only lives 3 miles away, we left Bailey at home in his box in the garage and she came over a couple times a day to give him his drugs and let him go potty. She was a life-saver!
Now - on to the vacation part! Tim picked me up in Lake Union on Friday afternoon (I skipped out of work a couple hours early!). We went through the locks and made our way to Port Ludlow for the night. We had amazing Chicken Gorgonzola pizza at this little whole in the wall. Yum! The next day we headed for Friday Harbor, but because the weather wasn't that great, we took the long route around the east side of Whidbey Island. It was a long 4 hour bumpy ride, but we made it! The next day we headed to Sidney, BC. After our first night in Sidney, we took a bus to Victoria on Monday. We spent the day wandering the city, eating incredible fish & chips, spending money, and renting mopeds. For some reason, Tim really wanted to do this and I was a sport, I went along for the ride...on my own moped, of course! It was actually really fun and a great way to see the outskirts of town along the water. After a stop for afternoon cocktails, and Tim's raw oyster adventure, we took the bus back to Sidney. Tuesday we stayed in Roche Harbor, where we've been the last 3 years on Tim's birthday. Wednesday we went to a brand new location for us - Sucia Island. It is a State Park that has lots of bays and mooring buoys. We took the dinghy to shore and hiked through the park a bit. That night we were tied to an anchor buoy. A storm was brewing just across the water in Bellingham and there was thunder, lightening, and wind most of the night, which made for a rather rocking and rolling night. Tim slept like a baby, but I was up most of the night and ended up throwing up in the middle of the night...all while Tim slept. I was REALLY glad to spend the next night tied back to a dock in LaConner! Friday we headed home and made it back through the locks with no issues. Lake Washington was already busy with Seafair activities and we saw the hydros practicing on our way back to the marina. We made it home about 6:30 last night. Today it was loads and loads of laundry and house cleaning for me, while Tim headed back to the marina to clean his precious boat. 24 hours with salt spray on it was more than enough in Tim's obsessive cleaning issues with his boat!