Daddy's Girl

Hello beautiful. Cool news - my dad and his gf, Laurie, came to visit last week! They flew in Wednesday afternoon and stayed through Sunday morning. Unfortunately, I actually work full-time 8-5 and play leap frog in traffic so I wasn't able to spend a lot of time with them but it was still great to see them!

Wednesday after work, Dad and Laurie came over and we showed them our apartment. We had dinner at Eastlake Bar and Grille and enjoyed the nice weather. After dinner, we went to Gas Works Park to get one of the classic, iconic views of Seattle. We wandered around the park and then got ice cream at Molly Moons - I appreciate the vegan ice cream :)

Classic

Thursday, I met Dad and Laurie for lunch in Bellevue. We had lunch at Potbelly and then I showed them my office space at ChemPoint. We hung around for a little bit and then i was back to work. After work, we all went on a ferry ride across The Sound. We caught the ferry right after sunset so the Olympics were a perfect outline with a fire colored sky. On the way back we had a phenomenal view of Seattle. Seeing the Big Wheel and Space Needle amongst the skyscrapers of downtown was very pretty.

Big Wheel

On Friday we took it easy. We ended up at REI where I ended up buying some warm gloves. Aaron can atest that I need them because my hands are always cold. I wonder who I got that from, Dad? After hanging out at REI, we went to the Seattle Center and checked out the Space Needle Gift Shop where I managed to convince Dad to buy me a stunning photo of Mount Rainier which I put in our bedroom! We then had a late dinner at Sport Restaurant & Bar where we had delicious food!

Saturday was our last day with Dad and Laurie. Aaron and I went to REI to get him a new, fancier, more expensive bike which he needed to commute to work. Dad and Laurie spent the morning at Pike's Market. After Aaron and I had lunch at The Lunchbox (my experimental salmon burger was not very good), we met Dad and Laurie at Pike's Market which was oh so easy. We bought a salmon and Dad bought a "sandbox." The sandbox was two panes of glass with three types of sand in colored water in a frame. When you flip it, then sand creates nature scapes. It's pretty cool! We then went back to the apartment where Laurie (a super duper good cook) made salmon and baked veggies. We had a bottle of Chateau Ste. Michelle Chardonnay with dinner. After cleaning up dinner, we said our goodbyes :(  In typical fashion, Aaron and I packed the truck and drove out to Leavenworth! 

Hand in The Pocket.

Sunday morning we went bouldering. We warmed up on Woolly Mammoth and then went to The Pocket for me to work on. So for me - short person problems - there are two cruxes - both of which are big big moves. The first crux is throwing to the pocket. Over and over I would just catch the edge but not enough to hold on tight. I lost so much skin on my left hand. Instead of quitting, I taped up my fingers and kept giving it go's. My back and shoulder muscles were beginning to get extremely tired but I just had to give it one more go. I sat down on the pad, popped my hip, got established, flipped my left hand into an undercling, bumped my right hand up, got my left hand up and over, matched, walked my feet over, got the high left foot with a bomber drop knee, locked my eyes on the pocket, and my hand went exactly where it needed to go and I stuck the crux!!! Last go best go :)

Then we went over to Hanta Man and Aaron worked on it for awhile. He could do all the moves but couldn't quite link them together. He has to do this sweet looking double toe/heel cam while matching on a crimp to bust out right. I have some sweet photos! Then we went over to The Octopus (a V3). I just gotta say that it was the fastest I have EVER sent a V3. After a few warm-up go's, I managed to crimp the sh*t out of this tiny crimp because I couldn't reach the jug. I crimped enough to move my feet to reach the jug. Then came the top out where I couldn't reach the other jug so once again I crimped the sh*t out of something to get myself to the top of the boulder.

Look at this crusher ;)

Somehow, Aaron still managed to have energy and psych to go work on the Peephole (V10). He worked the starting moves for awhile. Later in the week, he went to Leavenworth and was able to do all the moves! Now he just has to piece it together and the Peephole is in the send column :)

Next on The Life of Megan: a trip to the Pacific Ocean.