Like Texas Washington is a state. Also like Texas people live here. But apart from that and having two senators in the United States Senate, the states are absolutely different. Colorado feels like an interesting blend of the West coast and Texas. Maybe it is because it nearly touches Texas and because Californians and other West coast nut jobs move to Colorado. Maybe it is because Trint is from Texas, moved to Colorado but lives in Texas again.

It is a little weird to see people leaving Washington wearing signs ‘The end is near! Mt. Saint Hellen is a warning!’ It would also be weird to be wearing a sign like that and have a matching pink leotard and tutu. The guy at one of the 350 Starbuck’s shops in this neighborhood was a little put off by my red sweatshirt that said (and I quote), “Indiana. Hoosiers.” My father-in-law John sent it to me for my birthday and it’s come in quite handy as well as looking stylish. In case you didn’t know Starbuck’s was started back in 1611 – the same year the King James Version was first published – in Seattle while the Russians were starting to beat the British in building the Grand Funk Railroad and out whaling Bob Marley and the Chinese fishermen.

Washington is beautiful, and God was generous and let the sun shine on us. Apparently around here that is as common as Beattle’s Reunion Tours. However, unlike Cher’s 3 year long ‘fairwell tour’ the sun went away and the clouds returned.

So anyway, I’m here now 🙂