Thanksgiving With Chieko, November 18-23, 2001

 

Chieko flew up from the San Francisco Bay area...

 

Snohomish, a couple of days before Thanksgiving...

 

       

 

       

 

From the little river town of Snohomish, a few miles over to the port city of Everett...

 

Back in Redmond, for Amelie... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amélie A very good movie, with much accordion...

 

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The next morning, at Lake Sammamish, about 2 miles from my Bellevue lodge...

 

A nice little 2.5 million house atop Cougar Mountain...

 

         

 

Click here for photos of this place from July 8, 2001...

 

Over to Seattle...

   

Anthropologie, Whole Foods Market, etc...

 

Lake Union...

       

 

 

 

Thanksgiving supplies at the Uwajimaya in Chinatown...

 

Bellevue Galleria...

 

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Thanksgiving...

       

 

After our feast we took a drive up to Snoqualmie Pass in the Cascades. We hit the snowline at around 2500 feet...

 

       

 

       

 

Back down the Cascades, into the dark, gray of Seattle...

 

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The day after Thanksgiving... the view from my neighborhood...

 

     

 

Chieko goes back to San Francisco...