Lee, Heidi, and I made our 2nd Annual Scrapbooking Trip to Bellevue Veteran’s Day weekend!!! I left my house at 10am to head to Dallas to pick up Lee and Heidi; after getting everything loaded we left Dallas a little after 11am. I got a text about 2pm wanting to know how Seattle was; I did not know how to tell them we were still in Oregon! We had planned to stop at Bobbi’s and have digital software training and I figured that would take an hour but of course shopping was involved. We got to Bellevue without any issues. We stayed at an Extended Stay Hotel again but it was a different one then last time and this one had elevators and luggage carts; both of those made getting all of our stuff up the room so much easier!!!
Thursday night was spent getting set up and catching up. Our hardest decision of the night was which kind of pizza to order. We decided on Chicken Garlic, YUM!
Friday morning we were up and at the Expo right before it opened. It was so nice having the Expo less than 2 miles from our hotel. I really enjoyed the Bellevue Expo and we all came back with packages of stuff. My favorite find was the greatest dog paper I found that included “dog park” paper!! I carried my camera through the whole Expo and not once did I take a picture. After the Expo we had our traditional Mexican lunch;
thank goodness for chips and salsa,
Strawberry Margaritas,
and great friends!!!
Scraping started Friday night and continued Saturday morning before we were interrupted by a fire alarm. Lee had just finished making a pot of coffee when the alarm when off. It took us some time to figure out what was going on and then we had to get dressed before we could leave. We grabbed purses and I grabbed my camera so I could take pictures
of fire trucks,
firemen, and flames, and we were out the door. Thankfully Heidi had instructed us when we first arrived where the exits were and she paid attention because when she was telling us all I heard was “blah, blah, blah”. Just as we got to the stairwell the Hotel Manager was coming downstairs and told us he had found the cause of the smoke, someone was cooking in their room and it got out of control but everything was fine and we could go back to our room, but the fire department had to turn the alarm off. We tried going back to our room but the noise was too bad so we decided to go to Starbucks instead. When we got downstairs we found my van trapped by a fire truck.
But they moved that fire truck to make room for the biggest ladder truck I have ever seen.
That truck stopped right before blocking my van so we were able to make it to Starbucks.
Heidi was still in her Tinker Bell PJs and I was looking my finest
so Lee went in to get our order. When we got back to hotel all the excitement was over and scrapbooking resumed. Lee and Heidi relaxed and enjoyed their time away from family and they both scrapbooked but I became a scrapbooking machine and got 55 pages done including 6 mosaic pages. Lee got about 30 pages done and Heidi did 16 after she put the “stupid” project life away!
We were packed up Sunday morning and home Sunday evening after stopping at Country Cousin in Centralia for lunch and Bath and Body Works for some shopping. What an incredibly wonderful weekend spent with the greatest of friends!!
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