My first Thanksgiving - holidays

1. Seattle

A first getting to know the American public transportation and therefore a long trip....

1: 6 AM: Getting to Indianapolis airport by car. (Valeska's friend picked gave us a ride)
2: flight to Chicago. 1 hour time-change. That's what I found at the airport: a family-bathroom!

3: flight to Seattle! 2 more hours time-change. most of the time it was cloudy, but suddenly we saw that:

Isn't this amazing? After hours of flying over endless plains, suddenly this chain of (rocky) mountains shows up - perfectly like on the map!
That must be already around Seattle:

Valeska's friend Jessica and her sister picked us up at the airport. 1 hour car-ride to ....
Downtown Seattle:

After sightseeing and eating in a Japanese restaurant, we went per car-ferry and another 1 hour car-drive to:


Jessica's parents' place! I have never seen a house like that!! It's on a island and huge and with every luxury you can imagine! But really beautiful because just made of wood and aother natural materials! She said they needed a house as big as this one because the family is so huge (as they are Mormon) and so they can have family meetings and parties...
that's an older family picture that was on the wall in the staircase: Jessica (on the left), her 4 siblings (Josef, Elise, Caleb and Hirom) and her parents, who still look like teenagers too: (and the reflections of the opposite windows)

That was before entering the house: balconies and terraces everywhere with view on the sea.


On the next morning in the little tower right above Jessica's room: (good to wake up because so chilly!!)


The view from the tower:


That's where I've slept: (Jessica's room) - Everything is built by the father and other family relatives themselves and that whole house is made of wood without using metal nails, but just wooden sticks as connections!)


A part of the "living room":


And last but not least: the Thanksgiving - table.... already pre-prepared for the huge family meeting and the typical "großes Fressen": (all of that is still the living room and you see the kitchen behind it)


Unfortunately we had to leave again at 8:30 AM on this morning (today), right after I could take these pictures.
Now I am in Vancouver! More about that as sson as more pictures are there... :)