We love you Echo

This morning our sweet kitty Echo (aka. Big Guy, Little Man, Nekko Wafer, Spectrospkitty, and many others) passed away.  It was definitely unexpected.  



We love and miss him, every moment.  We thank God for all the time we got with him and being blessed to have him as a part of our family.  He will always be our little boy.

This One's For Keith

Just because I know he'll laugh...

It's Time to Find Out...

Bad Eats: Seattle

Here is an outline of an adventure I had in Seattle, with some photographs* for visual aid.  (*Not all events were photographed for soon to be understood reasons.  You are welcome in advance)

1.  Keith and I went to a Seattle Mariners game.  This is an annual event, where I take him to a baseball game.  I always have fun and Keith either (a) has fun because they win or (b) gets mad that they lose, but claims he still had fun.

This is Keith lying to my face that he is having fun.  

This is how he really feels.  You can guess the outcome of the game.

2.  Afterward, we meet up with Doug and Beth (Keith's folks) to try out a new restaurant.  We have all heard how good it is and it's down by the waterfront, so it sounds fun.

3.  We sit in the bar area to await seating, and catch up with them.  So far so good...it's fun to chitty-chat!

4.  We get seated and order the most fun thing on the menu - seafood where they dump it onto the table and we dig in like little piggies.  Sounds great!  We are excited at the novel idea.

Plus we get tools, i.e. a mallet and a cutting board.  This is fun!

5.  The food arrives!  It looks and smells great!

6.  I have more fun, doing some shrimpy dissection.  You can take the girl outta the OR, but you can't take the OR outta the girl!

7.  We eat.  And eat.  Basically, we gorge.  That's all.

8.  We drive to Doug and Beth's house to spend the night.  We are lucky since they have a guest bedroom and actually have 3 full-sized bathrooms in their dome home.  We are so glad we went out to dinner.

9.  Three of us get sick, from presumably food poisoning.  We spend considerable amount of time not together.  (remember: the house has three bathrooms).  It is still unclear why Doug never got sick...but thank goodness he didn't. 

**Note: This is not any of us or what happened to us.  But you get the idea of where we spent most of the evening and it wasn't with the kitty.

10.  It has taken me about 4 months to blog about this, since the thought of it still makes me queasy.  But it seems like an isolated incident, so I'm sure someday we'll try it again.  As Keith says: once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern.

11.  Moral of the story: Fun food does not always mean good food.  But mallets in dining is still fun.  We still had a great time together, inspite of it all.  And spending time with loved ones makes the memories better, even if you get food poisoning.

**The alternate title of this post was: Learning about Viruses, Bacteria, and the Digestive System.  Now you know why.  

Goooooaaaaallll

We went to our first Seattle Sounders game.  (Go Sounders!!)  Three words describe it: It was awesome.  Even before the game there was so many Sounders fans in the super bright green jerseys, carrying flags, and just generally in great moods.  We got so into the spirit that we needed to get some Sounders gear to show our support.

Once we got into the XBox Pitch at Qwest Field, we got free Sounders decals for our cars.  Sweet!  Plus we signed a petition to try and get World Cup to Seattle*.  When asked if we would sign, I responded "Hell yeah!"  We got to walk through the luxury suite area, where there were the fancy concession stands and security people everywhere.

Then we found our cushy stadium seats with a great view.  I really got into the game, missing how much fun it was to play and watch.  I was so into the game the entire 90 minutes, it went so quickly!

The atmosphere was fantastic, with people chanting and everyone keeping their comments clean for all the kids watching too.  We loved the crazy fan section, who led all the chants for the entire game.  They even brought their own section banner!  The Sounders have their own band, which really rocked.

And my favorite part...the confetti and fireworks when the Sounders scored.  Fun and pretty!

It was so much fun, and we had a great time.  I hope we get to go to more games in the future, it was the BEST professional sporting event I have ever gone too!  I can't wait to go back...Go Sounders!

*Feel free to sign the petition to bring World Cup to the USA!  Yea soccer!