Roadtrip Day 7: All Over The Place

This morning I got up early again and went walking in Gig Harbor with Mom, Aunt Sue, and family friend Yasuko. We walked around the harbor and marina and through the downtown area, then stopped for coffee and scones. Yasuko is a bit older than Mom and Sue, and as a teenager Mom babysat her kids.

It turns out that her daughter, Christine Wada, works in Hollywood and was the costumer for one of my favorite movies, O Brother Where Art Thou. She’s done costumes for a lot of movies, including a few Coen Brothers films.

We drove up to Sequim with John and Sue so Mom could meet with the plumber and get the fixtures and tub choices finalized. We walked around the property for a bit first, and it had rained earlier in the day, so everything was wet. It was cold, too! I would say between 50 and 55 degrees.

Later we ate lunch at a little cafe on the waterfront, more of a dive really. It looked like a place where old people go to sit all day and smoke cigarettes. The fish and chips were excellent, very lightly battered so not too heavy. I really and truly love malt vinegar on my fish and chips. Who needs tartar sauce?

While Mom was at the plumber’s shop, the rest of us went to a few antique/junk shops to see if they might be places Mom would like to go to search for old doorknobs and other authentic house accessories. Then we got blizzards at Dairy Queen.

Note to self: Never eat fish, chips, and ice cream for the same meal. Ever. Again. You will regret it.

Traffic was awful coming back home; a bad accident had shut down the highway. We exited and tried to take back roads. John was driving mom’s car and knows the ins and outs, but as it turned out, so did everyone else. It probably would have been quicker to stay on the highway.

I took a few photos at John’s, of his house and the surrounding forest.

Later, we left John and Sue’s as they had to pack up for their monthlong vacation at their Alaskan island cabin, and drove back to Redmond to Mike’s house. I was not feeling well at all (again: fish, chips and ice cream are a bad combination) and so I pretty much laid around for the rest of the evening, reading and feeling sorry for myself.

We’ll spend tomorrow with Mike. No idea what we will do.