Andrea Visit Day 1

For those of you who don't know who Andrea is - she started out as one of our high school students in Dayton, then she lived with us for a year before we moved to Florida (when Seth was a baby), and now she is one of my best friends. I had the privilege of being in her wedding last March and then she moved to Ellensbers, WA with her new husband Jonathan. I got to pop in and see her while I was visiting my Gramma last week. Ellensberg is on the other side of the mountains from Seattle. The drive was beautiful. Suddenly you realize that you are past the crest of the mountains because everything turns brown suddenly. We decided to go shopping and drove through a canyon. We stopped and took some pictures. There were a couple of people there with big cameras shooting stock footage for the Washington State Tourism Bureau, and we asked one of them to take our picture together. The guy took a picture of her taking our picture, so who knows, we might end up in a brochure somewhere! Here is my beautiful, amazing friend Andrea Betz:

We found these atrocious clothes at Target and made each other try them on. 80's leggings should NOT come back in style again. Here is proof:

We found a great little shopping center made out of an old train. Plastic sausages in an antique store:

Andrea made me a fabulous dinner of homemade creamy pesto w/ grilled chicken and artichokes. We got to visit all the animals and greenhouse at Jonathan's work (he cares for the greenhouse and animals in the science building at the University.) The fall colors were spectacular on my whole trip to WA. Here are some fall leaves:

A cool leaf from the greenhouse: