Diving Santa!

The Seattle Aquarium had Santa going for a swim. Too bad we couldn't join him.

Jetty Island

The summer camp that Vân ran had a field trip to Jetty Island in Everett, so we tagged along to check it out. The island was very small, probably 2 miles long, but it's only open during the summer. So it was very crowded. Sophie had a lot of fun running around on the sand. And I had a lot of fun preparing the enormous Mission-style burrito for lunch and eating all of it. 

Trees and sand

Wet sand

I'm stuck. Help me!

Tiny shrimp

Clam

Burrito

Layers of goodness!

Throwing sand

Blueberry Picking

We took Sophie to a farm in Everett to pick some blueberries. It took us 45 minutes to get to the farm and another 30 minutes for Sophie to warm up to the blueberries bushes. Once, she got "acclimated," she actually enjoyed picking blueberries. We spent a few hours picking, but we only got a few pounds of blueberries. The best part was having blueberry pancakes Vân made the next morning.

Blueberry bush

Sophie taking a break

Big blue sky

4 lbs of blueberries

Pancakes and bacon

 Blueberries, green berries and pink berries

ZooTunes

I'm still posting pictures and videos from the summer. One of the greatest things we did was going to ZooTunes. The zoo was great, the music was exciting, but the people around us were too self-absorbed. But we had a pretty good time listening to music, dancing and eating garlic fries at the zoo.

Jumping with áo dài

Bà nội bought Sophie some áo dài from her trip to Vietnam. When we received the package in the mail, Sophie was very curious. She wanted to wear it right away. She climbed on our bed and started jumping into her bed. The áo dài was too restricting, so we had to take it off.