Panama Hotel

These are photos outside the hotel and of the tea room. More info below.

Our trip to the Panama Hotel

I know that several of you have read the book entitled "The Hotel at the Corner of Bitter and Sweet." A wonderful book that was written with much historical background. It has to do with the Japenese internment in 1941. As serious as that was and as serious as that sounds, it is a wonderful story. It is a novel, based on history. The story takes place in Seattle's International District and a lot of it around the Panama Hotel. We discovered that the hotel is still there. It is over 100 years old and you can actually stay there. It is kept in very nice condition. Next door is a tea and coffee shop. We stopped in and have a pot of tea and a goodie. Was fun and we felt like we were sitting in a piece of history. I guess we were. This picture is of the stairway to the main floor of the hotel, no elevators. =)

Kaylene's vist

As most of you know, Kaylene's baby sister, Madilene, was in the hospital for about 12 days. She is home and doing very well and we are very happy about that! Here are some photos of the time Kaylene spent with us while her parents were at the hospital. We did lots of important things like search for rocks, twigs and pine cones and of course playing with stickers. We were tired when she went home, but felt honored to have had her with us and we certainly enjoyed having her with us.

Dartmouth Winter Carnival Hanover, New Hampshire

In early February Dave went to Dartmouth's annual winter carnival with our son in law, Zach and Zach's dad, Bill. Zach is a Dartmouth graduate and attends the carnival every few years. It is quite an event, many things going on and lots of things for children to do. They enjoyed the ice sculptures (cupcake), hockey, and of course visiting several restaurants. Dave was completely taken by the library. If we lived anywhere nearby, he'd be over there all the time. One of the sillier, things from our aged point of view, was the polar bear swim. College students don their bathing suits and jump into a VERY COLD pond of water. They have an EMT nearby and they put ropes around their waists to pull them back in case of a problem of some kind. Ah youth!

Dad's trip to Dartmouth