Friday Seattle 12 July

Well, here we are at Tulley’s for coffee again. It’s about a 20 minute walk downhill from where we’re staying, taking it slowly at Graham’s pace. It’s good exercise and it gives me time to try to get all the wifi stuff done. Last night was interesting - we had "shrimp" in a cream sauce with spaghetti and I got food poisoning: an interesting couple of hours late at night and especially difficult to get Graham back to sleep. Better this morning but no coffee: just water and crackers. As I write this, the big day has dawned for Carmen and David – their wedding day! We’re praying that it’s a beautiful day full of wonderful memories to treasure for their lifetime together. This afternoon we’ll have visitors - Damien with the girls and Bob and Joanne; we were supposed to go down to the locks with them but that's not advisable after my difficulties last night: just having a quiet day. We had two lots of visitors today. Bob and Joanne King were going to take us to the locks but because it was more sensible to take things quietly today, they came and visited us. Shortly after, Damien and Jennifer, Lily, Sarah and Fiona came for a short while. They’re all lovely girls, growing up and involved in sport, etc. Barb baked a turkey this afternoon which she had bought at Easter to keep for us. It wasn’t cooked until about 8.30pm, so we’ll have turkey for dinner tomorrow night. Probably no more posts until our first port on the cruise next week.