Trip to Washington, day 3

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Rosters woke us again on Friday. We felt more ourselves, but everyone who took a shower complained about it. My husband even tried to shower upstairs, but the water never got warm at all. Breakfast was eggs and toast, both heated in the fry pan we went over and asked for after we realized he’d never remember to bring it.
 

 

We went to a beach where we could gather rocks with sis-in-law. There we so many pretty rocks. I decided just to pick the white ones, but I started noticing green ones at the waters edge (the look brown/grey when dry) and the look of incredulity on my daughter's face when I came back with a handful of green rocks was enough to keep me picking them up.
 

Sis-in-law is really nice. I was kind of worried about coming up and seeing them because even though I’ve been married to my husband for 25 years, we’ve only seen his family a handful of times (They live in northern Washington, Southern California, and Hawaii). But she fit right in with us. She was aghast to see the condition of the old house. She wasn’t informed we were actually coming until Wednesday, which was her kids' first day of school. She had wanted to clean it.

 

She had to leave to pick her kids up from school, but she wanted us to come by for dinner. It turns out her family eats the same pizzas from the same take and bake chain ours does. Cheese and Cowboy with mushrooms on only half. We bought a few things we’d missed on our last shopping trip, plus some baking soda. The sink in the downstairs bathroom had years of rust on it (when the family first moved in decades ago the water was so full of iron and sulfur it was undrinkable. My husbands said to him the sink was always orange.
 

 

Then we went to a park for an hour or so. Sis-in-law isn’t shy. Her husband has to work to keep the conversation going (like we do) and their kids made themselves scarce. She showed off her little house and her big yard. She keeps bees and my youngest took lots of pictures of the hives.
 

 

Long about sunset, step-dad and hubby’s youngest brother stopped by, so we all went to a beach. It turns out that step-dad knows everyone and is able to make fast friends with anyone he doesn’t. We walked around and back to the rocky beach as the last of the light left. I took 80 pictures there. But a yellow jacket decided my niece was it’s hive and stung her six times before getting caught in her sock. My baking soda to the rescue. We went back to sis-in-law’s house and got pampered until it was time to leave for the ferry. This time it only cost us $12, but that was the end of our tickets.

 

I was more antsy than tired, so I scrubbed the sink with baking soda and a paper towel. The backing soda was orange and the sink was mostly white when I gave up for the night.