Seattle 2013

During the great west coast summer extravaganza of 2013, noa and i continued towards Seattle with my parents. The idea was that after spending 2 weeks on cortes island they would drive through vancouver and pick us up and we would all spend the weekend together in seattle.  Noa and I had booked a cute little air bnb apartment just N of the downtown core, and we left on a friday morning in order to get to seattle for lunch. no trip to seattle is…

Julian John Richard Lyon and a visit to Cortes

After our adventure in rainmageddon calgary, Noa and I flew to vancouver for 3 thoroughly rain soaked days. Nothing like making you appreciate not living in vancouver after that welcome.  But that Thursday, we rented a car and were headed for Courtenay on vancouver island for another wedding.  More about that in another post. So after spending three days there, we went up to Cortes island, where Erik and Naomi live, in order to hang out with their son, Julian.  Technically we had already met…

Last day in rome

To catch up on all the past posts about Italy, or start from the beginning, here are links in order.  Tuscany: Arriving in Italy, Arriving in Tuscany, Day 1 – Cooking in Tuscany, Day 2 – Florence, Day 3 – Siena, Day 4 – San Gimignano, Day 5 – Spello and Assisi, Day 6 – Perugia, Day 7 – leaving Tuscany, Rome: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3.   The last day in rome, we really only had a half day.  i think we had to leave some time…