Gypsies in America...

Well, the lower part anyway...

September 30: Kodiak, AK to Seattle, WA
We arrived in good fashion, me on mileage and Andy using jump seat privileges.  We sat by each other all the way down from Kodiak, which is quite amazing considering he was the absolutely last one called for a standby seat.  We managed to finagle me onto the morning jet, instead of my original afternoon ticket, out of Kodiak.  This move was good for the ultimate reason - CHINESE FOOD earlier!  This we enjoyed at the Red Lantern in Chinatown with mom, sister, and grandma -- good eating company.  So for anyone heading to Seattle, a recommendation for some great Chinese food.

A warm shower at home then had me diving into my bed, oh for the love of the perfect firmness.  That's the hard thing about gypsies, they move too much to own a bed and/or they're too cheap to buy one :)  There was no way you were going to budge me for the night...but Andy headed out on the town to catch up with an old coworker (this one from our aerial surveying days).  Unfortunately, this ended with a call to the police as as some bastard decided that of all the cars out there, they wanted to break into my grandpa's 1998 Subaru Forester.  At least you'd think that they'd take the cash, but instead  took the garbage and a pair of my grandma's and mom's old ass sunglasses.  Weird people out there...I'd elaborate, but maybe you reading this are one of these.

October 1: Seattle - Concrete, WA
Packed up and headed to run the Baker Lake 50K, camped out in my sister's Honda Element at Kulshan Campground.

October 2: Concrete - Cashmere, WA
Pauline runs the Baker Lake 50K - More to come regarding this, standby.

October 3:  Hay Canyon Ranch in Cashmere, Anjou Bakery (yes, this is considered a destination in our books), Chelan Butte in Chelan, Classic Crack in Leavenworth - Back over to the West side
We arrived over the mountains the previous night, and to our delight, Oktoberfest in Leavenworth!  Just kidding on the delight part, because we blazed right through in attempts not to get caught up in the mayhem.  We checked off a bunch of things on this side of the mountains.  Hung out with good friends, started our day at our favorite French Bakery, Andy took a couple of flights off Chelan Butte, while I belayed old man Pellerin up Classic Crack (this is its own story, we'll have to blog separately about this too).  Then on to my little 4 year old cousin's birthday party.  This is a good way to see everyone all at once, but always a difficult venue as little rug rats running all over the place is not conducive to easy conversation.

October 4:  Seattle, WA
Andy's last day in town.  Sorry to all the people that didn't get a chance to meet up while he was in town, we had a lot of errands to do.

October 5: Andy Seattle, WA - Charlotte, NC
Andy headed out today to get his ATP!  I woke up at 5am to drive him.  I then had a fabulous sun filled day hanging out by water with my good friend Ben up at Exit 38 and Rattlesnake Lake.  I'm missing home!

October 6: Pauline is still in town for a couple of days, my schedule is filling up fast....

It's hard to keep track of us, I can barely remember all the things we have already done since getting on the plane.  I created this blog so everyone could keep track of us when we are on the move, but it's so hard to write when we are.  So this crazy entry is the brief of it.

So until I have time to fill in the blanks, I'll be on the move again...
Pictures still to come.