This last Thursday, I checked yet another item off of my Summer Bucket List and did something I've wanted to do for a long time: ride the Sounder train. I remember when I was in my first quarter enrolled in Green River Community College, taking classes at the Kent campus, Mom would drive me down there, but we would often get stopped before the railroad tracks as the Sounder rolled by. I always loved looking in through the windows at the people inside, some at tables where they typed on their laptops, others reading the morning paper. I always thought how neat it would be to take the train every morning to work or to school and be among one of those commuters. I've wanted to go for a ride for awhile, but I never could since the Sounder doesn't operate on the weekends - only on the weekdays when I was too busy with school and Mom was too busy with work.
It's been exactly a week since my last post, but I feel like so much has happened since then!
Oh my goodness, I just got back a little bit ago from a long day in Seattle with my Mom, and I am exhausted! It was so much fun, though, and I felt like we did so much! First, we stopped by the house that my brother, sister, sister's boyfriend, and boyfriend's friend recently moved into together, in Ballard. I unfortunately have no pictures, but you have to take my word for it that it is such a cute house: two-story, light blue with white trim, a large front porch, and a lovely deck out of my sister's bedroom on the second floor. My Mom needed to pick something up from my brother, and while we were there he gave us a tour of the house and then we took Beasley for a walk. They live on such a nice street with lots of trees and there's a nice little park nearby, too, that we went to.
