My friend Brendan came up from California to visit Laura and me. I met Brendan in Spain and we both traveled to Morocco for about a week. I met Brendan through Laura who was traveling through Europe at the time and met Brendan in Italy. Brendan just happened to live in Granada where I was living.
So Brendan flew in Friday and Laura came down from Mt Vernon. We went to the Zoo bar and played darts. We saw the troll. We talked by the fire in our house. Saturday we walked around Seattle, Pike’s place, Volunteer park. We went to bed early though since we were going hiking the next day. Originally we wanted to go skiing at Whistler, but there’s just not enough snow anywhere to go skiing. Especially to drive more than four hours and pay close to $70 for a lift ticket.
So we went hiking at Mt Pilchuck. The trail was a little slick, but it was gorgeous out. We could see in every direction forever at the top. We could see Seattle. We had lunch at the top.
Then I ran down the mountain! At first everyone wanted to go slowly, but then Brendan and Laura realized how fun it was to go as fast as you can regardless of whether or not you fell. So we started running through the snow and ice down the mountain. Kim and Bridgid were a little more cautious, but somehow they ended up off the main trail and headed straight down to the parking lot instead of taking all the switch backs. I was a little worried about them, but they actually made it back to the car a little before us.
Brendan and Laura both had the day off on Monday, but Kim and I didn’t, so Brendan went back to Mount Vernon with Laura. Kim and I went to work but we drove up to Mount Vernon Monday night have dinner with them and see Laura’s place. I got to see pictures of when Laura visited in Spain that I hadn’t seen yet.