We had a big weekend. First, Keith left on Friday to go to Grandma Daphne's funeral on Saturday in Fairfield MT. He flew with Scott, Rod and Grandma Schenk. The funeral went well, Keith gave the opening prayer and was a pallbearer. Then he and his brothers were able to get out of there in time to catch the Saturday afternoon flight home. Grandma Schenk drove back home with Laura and Trey.
Meanwhile, Eric had Tennis practice on Saturday morning and then the Tennis Team car wash. Then we took Carson and drove to Seattle for the Seattle Sounders soccer match Saturday night. We met up with Andre who was just getting out of a Mariners game, and Keith who just got off the airplane. Our timing was perfect, and we all met on a street in Seattle near Qwest field, thanks to cell phones!
We bummed around the waterfront for a couple of hours. After eating at Ivars, we went into an Arcade.
Right away Keith bought tickets for the two of us to ride the Merry go Round. That was a surprise, doesn't really sound like Keith, does it?
Then Eric, Andre and Carson played some arcade games. The air hockey was intense!
They had to keep going back for more quarters to play more games until they won enough tickets to get some fuzzy dice! Actually, even though it was kind of silly, I think they enjoyed the novelty of it all.
We raced back to Qwest field. Meanwhile all around town we had been seeing lots of people wearing the lime green Sounders jerseys. Once the stadium filled up (there were over 30,000 people, we broke the attendance record) you could look out in the crowd and at least HALF the people were in the lime green jerseys!
It was crazy. The fans were awesome. There was a huge group at the end zone that did organized cheers the WHOLE GAME! They shot metal confetti out of cannons when we scored. The funniest part was whenever their goalie kicked off the ball to our team, the crowd would shout "YOU SUUUCK" to the other team. I couldn't tell what they were saying for most of the game, then Eric told me. It made me laugh.
We sat in the section where they have unlimited snacks and drinks for free! Hot dogs, popcorn, pop, peanuts, those large pretzels, nachos,and bottled water.
The view of the Seattle skyline was great. Our team beat the Chicago Fire (sorry Katie) 2-1. Our second goal was a head shot by Freddy Montero. Yeah, cool. It was a really fun night!
Tonight we went to the Wilson's for Brittany's pre-mission Open House. There was a nice big group, and she and her parents all asked about Devin. They seem excited now for Brittany to go to Russia, just a little nervous still, but more ready.
Bishop and Kate Atkinson have been a wonderful influence on the youth of the Young Adult ward. They were so good to Devin, we can't thank them enough.
Then we had seminary open house. Our teachers next year are Jen MacKay, Eric will be in her class, and Melissa Knoblich. After 22 years of early mornings bringing the scriptures to life for hundreds of youth, Sister Richeson is retiring. They gave her a nice book of thank you letters from her students over the years. We'll miss her!
