For the second half of our trip out to the wedding, we headed up to Washington to spend a couple of days with my parents before going back to Utah. While there we got to play tennis, go bowling, celebrate Jarom's 29th birthday (yeah he's old), eat lots of pies (I made my first pecan pie), watch Brave in the best theater I've ever seen, and go to the Mima Mounds in Olympia. Jarom got to see the most sun he ever has while being in Washington, it was about 2-3 full days worth of sun!
The movie theater deserves further explanation. It was a normal sized theater, but only held maybe a third the amount of people as any other theater. The reason is because the seats are so ridiculously huge and amazing. Every seat is a full recliner that you can move all the way out if you want and lie down to watch the movie. There is room for your feet to go way out in front of you, your head to go way back, and still room for someone to walk past if they need to leave. I had to fight falling asleep during the previews because it was too comfortable. That was pretty nice.
Then the Mima Mounds are a weird occurrence that no one can agree on how they were made. There were some pretty funny theories posted about why they are there. Some "experts" say they were left after the glaciers receded, but nowhere else where ice was has that type of pattern left. Some say they thought they were ancient burial grounds or maybe treasures of some kind were buried, but after digging into them, they are nothing but dirt. Some even say there were gophers that just kept digging and digging and digging until eventually all this dirt piled up and stayed there. Yeah, I'm sure THAT'S the right one. Maybe we used to have GIANT Gophers that lived there!
Anyway, here are some picture of those. You might want to click on the picture to see it bigger to be able to see the hills easier. They're fairly big, but not too big.
The movie theater deserves further explanation. It was a normal sized theater, but only held maybe a third the amount of people as any other theater. The reason is because the seats are so ridiculously huge and amazing. Every seat is a full recliner that you can move all the way out if you want and lie down to watch the movie. There is room for your feet to go way out in front of you, your head to go way back, and still room for someone to walk past if they need to leave. I had to fight falling asleep during the previews because it was too comfortable. That was pretty nice.
Then the Mima Mounds are a weird occurrence that no one can agree on how they were made. There were some pretty funny theories posted about why they are there. Some "experts" say they were left after the glaciers receded, but nowhere else where ice was has that type of pattern left. Some say they thought they were ancient burial grounds or maybe treasures of some kind were buried, but after digging into them, they are nothing but dirt. Some even say there were gophers that just kept digging and digging and digging until eventually all this dirt piled up and stayed there. Yeah, I'm sure THAT'S the right one. Maybe we used to have GIANT Gophers that lived there!
Anyway, here are some picture of those. You might want to click on the picture to see it bigger to be able to see the hills easier. They're fairly big, but not too big.
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| Mom standing on a mound |
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