Election Day 2020

 

Sharon Shewmake also won!!

Sunny Weekend !

Halloween was sunny, and with Henry doing EduMUN, Mary Jo and John went up to Whidbey Island for a wonderful day. We took the ferry across to Clinton and walked on the beach near the house we rented in December 2012 (blog post here) and then walked along the beach by Ebey Landing, where John, Joseph, and Henry had hiked in July (blog post here).

View of Whidbey coming into the ferry dock

House we stayed at in December, 2012

View of the Ebey Bluff Landing hike

EduMUN 2020

Henry had a leadership role on the Secretariat for the EduMUN (Model UN) conference in late October. Given that we're in a Covid-dominated world, the conference was entirely online, so Henry did it from his bedroom. He still got dressed up (at least from the waist up).

Last Day Working in Varzea

 Way back in July, 2010, John moved with Amazon into a new office in South Lake Union, called "Varzea". It was one of less than ten buildings Amazon had in Seattle. Now, ten years later, Amazon has more than 50 buildings in Seattle, and said they would move out of Varzea. John went down to work from Varzea one last time in late October.

View from my original office on the 8th floor

The office has been reconfigured many times since 2010, but this is where I sat orginally

Thirty Years!

On 10/21/20, Mary Jo and John celebrated their thirtieth wedding anniversary!!

That evening, we went to the Metropolitan Grill, where we have celebrated our 5th, 20th, and 25th anniversary. 

And we spent the weekend that followed in sunny Scottsdale Arizona, including an upgrade on our rental car to a Mustang convertible!

In Scottsdale, we took a tour of Taliesen West, Frank Lloyd Wright's winter studio

Our hotel room was the balcony on the top left