Here's just a few of the things we've been doing lately.
Last week Maryn was at Girl's Camp. Of course she had a fabulous time but while she was gone Jeff and the kids pitched our tent and slept in the backyard.
Last week if you were watching the news you would have noticed Seattle weather as a spotlight for being extra HOT. Now the 90's or even 109 really isn't too too bad. It's hot but we've lived in Redding where we had 118 a couple of times. That's HOT but it's live able when you have air conditioning and a swimming pool. I guess what I am trying to say is that in Seattle only 7% of the population has air conditioning in their homes. We don't. Last summer we had the air conditioning fix-it man come out because our air was not coming out cold... it must have been broken, naturally. He said, "Ma'am you don't have air conditioning." "Surely," I said, "you must be joking. This house is only 4 years old, it HAS to have AC." He replied, "but Ma'am you live in Western Washington now. You don't need AC." Stupid AC man! We do to need AC!!!!!!! When it's 90 outside our upstairs is a sauna... it's suffocatingly hot. My personal rule has always been that I don't sweat in my house. I enjoy refrigerated air! If you have it then use it! I've always mocked people who live without AC and now I are one. Dang! Anyway, that's all to lay the foundation in telling you that when I saw the forecast for last week in record breaking temperatures (the hottest it's ever gotten here is 100 and we beat that by a long shot.) and I was already sweating and I was sweating more just by thinking how hot it was going to get. I am learning that the older I get the more grumpy I get when I'm hot so Jeff and I mutually decided that we had to get out of this h-e double-hockey-sticks burning feeling. We got a hotel in Bothel... 40 minutes from our home. Thank goodness Jeff has lots of Marriott points so we could stay for free. We made the week into a vacation... cancelled piano lessons and everything else scheduled and instead spent the week swimming and swimming and swimming in the pool at the hotel. We went to a couple of movies. We went downtown to the Seattle Center to the Children's Museum and the kids got drenched in the fountain afterward.
Then we found this decorative fountain that tons of people were using as a swimming pool. We joined them in our clothes too.
Jeff was the only one who put on his swim suit. The other's thought, "why bother?" 
We only stayed 3 nights in the hotel but it was SO much fun. We tried to stay another night but the hotel was booked. Actually for the whole week all the hotels within a 20 mile radius were booked with Seattleites who were taking refuge from the heat wave. No fans could be found at any store either. 
On Friday after we checked out of the hotel we went Mercer Island and met some friends at this beach where we watched the Blue Angels practice for their "Seafair" performance they would do on Sat. and Sun. We swam for a couple of hours before the show... 
...and I'd have to say we got a pretty good show. Amazing!
After the show we went to New Castle Beach to swim some more. We were trying everything we could so we didn't have to go back to our house. We knew our best chance for breathing would be outside the house... and we were right. But evening did come and we had to go... the Debenham kids came that night and stayed with us for the weekend while Jim and Jenny went to a funeral. On Saturday we woke up and went Raspberry picking. Oh my, these were tasty raspberries! Besides Kaden getting stung by a wasp we had a good time right before it started to get HOT. We took everyone to the Family Fun Center in Tukwilla. (anything to get out of the house, right?) We had tons of fun there!
We used up all of our tickets to ride the bumper boats 3 times. We all soaked each other and LOVED it! 
Stay tuned for the next chapters of F-U-N that we'll be having. Who knows? It's fun to lose the cares of your responsibilities. I do know that our house is a mess because we have been too hot to clean it so if we can find a cool minute we might do a few jobs. In my next life I want to be a meteorologist because I just love weather patterns and things. Seriously, I love to watch the weather on the news and my favorite channel is the weather channel... I've already checked for this week and I see rain drops coming for Thursday and Friday. You know I'm from Seattle by the jitters of excitement I am feeling at seeing those cloudy days and rain drops. Ahhh, what comfort that brings and what relief to the heat that will bring. I'm not a wimp either... if you didn't have Air conditioning you would be whining just as much as I am. We do need an excuse to do something else fun though... hmmmm, just wait. We'll find something.
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It's so funny that you had an AC man come to your house last summer. I don't think I ever checked to see if a house had an AC when we were looking. It's 2009! You just assume! But I'm pretty sure my aunt and uncle and cousins who live there don't have AC, either.
I'm with you on refrigerated air! My mom would rarely run the AC when we were growing up because she's always cold. So now I have it on constantly. Even in the winter. The sun beats down our windows all year round, so my AC is never off. I feel your heat pain! You guys sure made the best of it, though!
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