SeaTac Airport, REI and Lake Fenwick

Mom and Erika got up and headed out towards the hospital around 8 that morning.  Ben and I slept in a bit more and got up to meet them at 9, we were to take her to the airport before her flight at noon.  Mom called and told us that her car wouldn't start, they had stopped at the Safeway off of Martin Way for coffee and probably some doughnuts.  They called us back and told us that the car started and not to be in a hurry.  We got ready and got in the car and headed towards the hospital.  We really had no plans for the day except to take Erika back to the airport.

We got there around 9 and went up to the 11th floor.  Erika was visiting with dad one last time before she goes.  She did a few laps with him before she had to say goodbye.  We all left and went downstairs to the Escape and got on the freeway.  I knew we would make good time because the traffic wasn't that bad.  We talked about some stuff and listened to some Fall Out Boy.

We got to the airport quicker than I thought we would.  At least I got here there with a lot of time to spare than when Doug and Jen were late picking her up.  We pulled up to the curb...there were a lot of people and cars around, parked and got out.  We told her bye and Ben took our picture.  She actually gave me a hug before we parted ways.

We got back into the Escape and got a hold of Doug to come meet us in Tukwila at the REI to get his work boots he left in my car a few days ago.  He and Jen met us and we didn't have to wait that long, I was truly surprised.  We wandered around the store for a while visiting.  Ben and I wanted to replace the GPS I broke the previous week.  I did some research and found out we could get a Garmin Oregon 600 for $400 with a discount for being an REI member.  At some point we will get $40 bucks back for it, therefore making it a better deal than Cabela's. We didn't end up getting the GPS at that store.  Doug bought some boot laces and a Nalgene bottle before we left.  I gave Doug his boots and we really didn't have any plans after that except to find some food.  They went back up to Mill Creek and Ben and I found an IHOP to have some pancakes.

The place was packed but we only had to wait maybe 10 minutes.  I ordered some orange juice, Ben had coffee and he got waffles and I got blueberry pancakes.  It was delicious and hit the spot.  Since we were up here we decided what the next course of action was going to be.  I needed gas so we went in search of some cheap gas and then from there he wanted to go to the Seattle REI.  If I would have known that I would have had Doug and Jen meet us there.  Oh well.

Ben took me a really weird way to the REI and we could have ran over a bunch of people and lost my side view mirrors.  We finally got to the parking garage and found a place.  We walked in and looked at the climbing stuff first, clothes, tents, shoes, used the restroom, and finally looked at the GPS's.  We both knew we needed one so we gave up and bought one.  I took him outside to go get the cache on the property, Rock Edge Interstice (GC2432N), one I got on 8/13/11, which seemed like eons ago!

We went back to the Escape and decided we weren't done being up here yet so we wanted to do some disc golfing.  We found one in Kent called Lake Fenwick Disc Golf Course and I saw some good reviews about it.  Ben had been here before so he was somewhat familiar with the area.  We plugged the address into the Nuvi and off we went.

I have never been to this area before and it was pretty nice considering it was "in the city" between I-5 and 167.  We got out, brushed off the discs, it's been a while since we've played, and off to hole 1 we went.  This course was very hilly and lots of obstacles to throw your disc into.  I was under par a few times and had a couple of great throws.  There were many times we were off and had to go searching for our discs.  We even found a disc for a kid who was looking for his for the past hour, took me 5 seconds to find it.  We got lost looking for a hole we could not figure out and we messed up hole 17 and 18.  Whoops!  We had fun though.  Ben ended up getting really dirty by retrieving his disc and basically sliding on all fours down a hill backwards.  I wish I had videoed that.

We called Ben's mom to ask what she was up to.  We decided to go visit since we were in the area.  We ended up meeting her at the store and being weird to her and Amy.  We remembered we didn't have anymore body wash in the downstairs bathroom so we got some more and of course we got some ice cream.  We ate dinner and took a shower so we weren't sweaty and dirty anymore.  We settled down and watched American Sniper and then had to drive back to my place because Ben had to work the next day.  We got home late.

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