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Thisbe Nissen: Tour Diary

Preliminaries - Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4 - Day 5 - Day 6 -
Day 7 - Day 8 - Day 9 - Day 10 - Day 11 -Day 12 - Day 13 - Day 14 - Day 15 -
Day 16 - Day 17 - Day 18 - Day 19 - Day 20 - Day 21 - Day 22 -
Day 23 - Day 24 - Day 25 - Day 26 - Day 27 - Day 28 - Day 29 - Home Diary - July 25 - July 26

Day 17: Iowa City, Seattle

Sarah brings us to the airport for the flight to Seattle, which all goes smoothly. What strickes us is how different the greens are: Iowa's green so lush and bright, Washington's such a dense, dark evergreen. Katie and Kimberly fetch us from the Sea-Tac airport and bring us home to their beautiful house, Bimini and Liz the Bernese Mountain dogs there to greet us. We lie in the hammock in the sun until dinner, which is Katie's most marvelous new Asian concoctions including lotus root salad, and cilantro spring rolls, and maki, and udon noodle soup. We can't even get to the two other dishes she's planned. Instead we eat Kimberly's Pavlova: meringue with dark chocolate, whipped cream and berries. I go to sleep at eight pm, full as a tick.