Bellevue Botanical Garden Lights

Ice skating in Bellevue

Last 2023 jacuzzi session!

 

New Year's eve dinner

 

Taking our surprise visitors to Snowflake Lane

 

Jamie's home for the holidays, Grace and Lee drove up, and we met Russel and Wendy, too!

2023 Year End Review

Happy New Year 2024! 

Song "Bad Habits" by Mangomi, aka Jamie Lin

https://linktr.ee/thejamielin

 

Leaving Leavenworth

 

Took about 2.5 hours to get back home (with a bathroom break).

Round of best boba tea in Bellevue

 

More snow last night

More fresh snow last night

 

Fun portraits

 

Christine and Jerry pictures

            I can be flexible like Jamie too!

              Life is good with snow!

               Jerry pontificating 

Christmas evening snow fun

Waterfront Park

Hawaii-California-Washington virtual family gathering

Did a virtual family gift card exchange this year with special generosity factor!

White Christmas in Leavenworth

Snowing on Christmas Eve

Snowmobiling in Leavenworth

Made it to Leavenworth

Took us a little over 2 hours to get here. No snow chains required for our car. 
 

Bananagrams game night! 

Last morning in Auckland

Auckland misc pics

Back to college for Christine? 

Celebrity Edge cruise ship! I want to go on this someday.

 

Kiwi Burger. Pretty good. Has a big slice of beets in the burger.

Visiting the Auckland War Museum

We met a young girl from Belgium. She is visiting NZ on her own. Such an amazing girl!

Sailing aboard America's Cup

The hotel and houses at the edge of the eroding cliff have been tagged as "Unsafe". Likely will fall soon.

The 1995 America's Cup champion boat was purchased by New Zealand in the early 2000s as a tourist attraction.

Happy holidays from Auckland

 

Auckland Fish Market and nearby park

Yummy lunch!

Morning run through Auckland Harbour

Breakfast

                          Eggs Benedict and Congee

Bike Tour, Auckland

High tech public bathroom

Cool public bathroom.  You can only stay in it for 10 mins at a time.

 

On bike tour this morning

Dormant volcano

Lunch at Auckland fish market after our bike ride