Conner and I took a quick road trip to Seattle yesterday, and we had such a great time! The purpose of our trip was to get some driving hours for him and to also see my college roommate and her family. Conner did almost all of the driving except for about 1/2 hour on the way there and a 1/2 hour on the way back. He did fantastic - I can't believe that our 16 year-old just drove me through downtown Seattle and 150 miles on the interstate....yikes! He got to pump gas for the first time and was thrilled that I wanted to take a picture of him doing it :). We only had one close call out of the 7 hours that he drove, so not too bad. The close call was pretty scary for both of us. Two semis were broken down on the side of the freeway, so the semi driving next to us decided he wanted over into our lane just as Conner was starting to drive next to him. Conner started speeding up to get passed the semi so that the semi could come into our lane, but then the traffic in front of us started slowing down....thank God, the cars in front of us weren't slowing down too quickly or it could have been bad. Anyway, we survived with only a honk from the semi driver. It was great spending 7 hours in the car with Conner, just hanging out together. At church on Saturday we had a message about looking for God's goodness during the day, so a couple of times we just listed off the good things that we had seen on our trip. It was really cool. We had a great time in Seattle - Conner went bowling and to a hockey game with Reed, Cade, and Patrice. Katie and I went on a long walk around Greenlake, got pedicures (thanks, Katie!) and went for coffee. We came home for delicious French Dip sandwiches. Katie and I pretty much talked non stop for the 10 hours that we spent together. It was so good to spend time with her.
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