They were having the 2009 dinner to welcome home the 2 teachers and their families, who had been in Australia for 2008, and to welcome the 1 teacher from Australia who on Bainbridge Island this year.
The dinner was at a place in Auburn, which is about 25 km south of Seattle. It took me about 45 minutes to get through the border and then about an hour and a half to get to the house which
was on the shore of beautiful Lake Geneva. Chris, whose house it was at was on exchange to Australia in 2001, the year we were in WA. Her exchange was Judy, a teacher that we did a few things with during that year. She ended up marrying a teacher she met in Australia. They have a lovely house on the shores of the lake.Dinner was chilli and salad followed by desert. The best part though was the conversation and the stories we all shared. Elaine was there as well.
I had made arrangements to stay the night and was shown into the guest room which was decorated with an Australian influence. I woke up to a beautiful view of the lake with the bare trees affording a great view of the house that surrounded it. It was a very peaceful setting.I left after breakfast and began the drive back to Canada. It was quite foggy for most of the trip. I called into Everett to check out some shops and found a clothing shop that was liquidating all stock, including the fittings, computers and registers. Shoes 5 for $10, jeans and tops $3.33 each, and long and short sleeved t-shirts for 50c. I bought a few things. I also picked up a tent and a
GPS which has been and will be very handy for getting around.I turned off the highway into Burlington and had a look around. There is water covering a lot of the farmland here and quite a few road closed because of the water. There are areas all around here and in the lower mainland of BC that are finding it hard to cope with the amount of water from the rain and snow-melt. Parts of BC have been declared disaster zones because of the flooding.
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