The day after Tracy’s birthday last year the container turned up, was loaded with boxes and set off on its journey to America. The day after Tracy’s birthday this year, we all jumped in the car at 9:15am and set off in the sunshine for a day on Whidbey Island. What a difference a year makes.
After a brief stop off in Mukilteo to get me a birthday present (a bit early but that’s ok!), we boarded the ferry to Clinton. Unfortunately there were no leaping orcas or swooping eagle but it was a lovely journey in the sunshine nonetheless.
After arriving on Whidbey we went across to our usual beach just outside Langley. Being early in the year it was nice and quiet there, so we spent some time on the beach, finding crabs, sand bugs and enjoying the stunning view. At this point Grampy hadn’t been in a shop for a while so we went into Langley and visited the shops. A few modest purchases followed including a shiny rock from Madagascar, a top, a blanket, some sunglasses and a few other things that I’ve no doubt I’ve forgotten which obviously made us all very hungry. Ravenous in fact in the case of Harry who always seems to have his trips to Whidbey ruined by the fact that he is permanently starving!
We went to our usual restaurant – Prima Bistro – and between us enjoyed, tomato and clove soup, crispy pigs ears, croque monsieur and madame, risotto, noodles with parmesan, cheese burgers and a rueben. After that little lot we weren’t starving any more!
After lunch we had a short stroll along the beach and then it was time to head back to the ferry with another lovely Whidbey trip complete. Let’s hope the weather stays like this all summer – happy days!
And all the photos are here.