Super Saturday!

We had a wonderful Saturday.

It started out with Dennis and MaryAnn's arrival. They went to their appointments, spent a couple hours there and came back to the apartment. Terry had no appointments today.

Dennis had his first shots today - these shots are to help release whatever it is that they need into his blood stream, so that when they collect it, it will be ready.

Not long after their appointment, Dennis began a bellyaching. Yip! have you ever heard him bellyache? We heard it today a couple times. He was bellyaching in the morning and again in the evening, and though he was not as vocal about it other parts of the day, we are sure he was bellyaching all day long. Those shots are injected into his stomach and they do cause some discomfort and make him ache. They told him he might begin to feel like he has the flu. Poor Dennis - he will probably have 4 days of this. Whatever shall we do? He will be bellyaching all week. :) (What you really need to know is that he really just mentioned that his belly ached, one time, and he did so because he was just confirming what the nurse had told him would happen, but when I heard him say his belly ached I accused him of bellyaching and it just kinda stuck for the rest of the day. He really isn't complaining, he has been a great sport through it all, and we are grateful for his kindness and love.)

In spite of his bellyaching he drove us to the tulip festival in Mt. Vernon. We drove around, and around, and around, trying to find the tulip fields. We ended up at the Senior Center a couple times ... these 60 and older people must be attracted to places like that :).

We just had to get a picture of that building, especially since we were becoming so attracted or attached to it. We saw a lot of nice homes and farms and great buildings, but only a few tulips along the side walks. We visited and laughed and had a great time.

We drove some more and ... tada! ... we found the tulip fields, and more tulip fields. We got a few photos, but the photos don't show the brilliance of color that we saw as we drove around. The colors were beautiful, bright and crisp. It was a bit windy and rainy at times and we wanted to leave the dirt there instead of tracking it home, so we stayed in the car, but it was well worth our time. What we saw from the car was truly amazing - fields of beautiful, brilliant color.

On our way back to the apartment we found a place to eat - The Ram. It was our first time eating at that restaurant and we found it to be a fun and delicious place to eat and our great time together continued.

After dinner we searched for the grocery store that we thought was somewhat close to our apartment. We hadn't been to it, but had seen it on a map. We saw the space needle (which is only about a mile away from us) and a few other places of interest, and then we found this big QFC sign on the front of a tall building that looked like any other office building in the area. As we got closer we found that it indeed was the grocery store we were searching for, and that the store itself was located somewhat under ground. We parked in a parking garage and entered the store from there, going upstairs to get into it. We have found that these grocery stores in Seattle are rather exciting. We got the groceries we wanted and headed back to the apartment.

Now, I've left out a few of our "senior moments", but we did have a few of them, and in fact, I had to tell myself that "it was my turn to be quiet" because I had a couple myself. OH NO! I am guilty by association, right? I have learned that I should not do any more back seat driving in Seattle. It's not very healthy ... funny, maybe, since we have all survived, but I'll try hard to say no more. :)

It was our most fun day since we arrived in Seattle. Thanks to our great brother and sister for their kindness and love. We look forward to more senior moments throughout the next couple days. :)

It might be fun to get Dennis and MaryAnn's version of the day :)