Today I took my younger daughter into Seattle to "do" Pike Place Market.  My older daughter, Mo, and my husband are on her 8th grade trip to Hawaii. So Lise and I are staving off our bitterness by sampling the local attractions. 

Anyway, I had some concerns about all the walking. We took the Bainbridge ferry over and had to walk to the market and climb the stairs up to it.  It's not a terribly long walk, but my legs have been kind of zesty lately (that's my term for nerve shocks,) and I wasn't sure how it would go. Plus it was a hot day so, which

is not a great thing for someone with MS.  Luckily, I felt pretty strong. So that's a win. I worry about not being able to take trips like this on my bad days. I'm so glad this wasn't one of them!

Here's Lise are eating her Pike Place clam chowder--part of the impetus for the trip.  I was literally dripping sweat as I ate. Clearly, we are idiots.  However, as we stood in line for 20 minutes behind a zillion tourists--mostly Japanese--to get it, we are not the only idiots.

And these are the gorgeous flowers we brought home.  They weighed a ton and were packed in a bag of water that leaked all over my pants on the ferry.  Good thing it was a hot day!