Monday, November 9, 2009

Bellingham

I Woke up early last week and turned on the news and saw that Doug's Middle Schools roof was on fire. How sad is that. It is a 100 year old building and the architecture on the building is really beautiful. I hope they can save it. We haven't been to Bellingham for a really long time and Doug and I use to love to go to Bellingham just for the fun of it. It is, or was a really cool town. I guess it still is. It has grown a lot sense we had been there. Saturday Nov.7th we had Doug's motorcycle gangs party to go to. They had a pot luck dinner, and looked at all the pictures from their trip. Any way the party was in Everett. So we decided to leave early and go to Bellingham first and then go to the party. ( the next 3 pictures I got off the web)




Bellingham is the place were Doug grew up. This is the view from the house he grew up in. This is lake Whatcom.

This is the house his family built and he has lots of good memories here. He was a little disappointed that the present owners did not keep up the yard. He walked around to the back and saw a dear drinking from the stream. Doug remembers pushing the lawnmower around and he could barley see over the handlebars.









This is the log cabin were he went to scouts







Geneva School. This is the grade school that he went to. It has a big open middle section with small little building surrounding it. There were about 81 students and 4 classrooms when he went here. It was a small school. I think 1-2 and 3-4 were combined. Now it is a privet school. The buildings are very old. It is a cute little school. Tallest building there. Principle's office.





Doug's 3rd grade class room.



I took a picture of the inside. Everything is in this picture. The inside of the classroom if you look hard, me, Doug, the school.




This use to be just grass on the upper field.



This was the 5th grade classroom were his teacher North American Storms taught. It is now a Kindergarten.







The gym is now a classroom.


entrance to the school


I thought this was cool hula hoops on the side of the building. I don't think they had this when Doug went to school here.





Watcom Middle school with the roof burned off.



This use to be a Pay and Save store were Doug's dad was the Manager. He walked in side it and said that it all looked the same they haven't remodeled it sense the 70's. The two way mirror was still there were he and his brothers would look for shop lifters.




I liked the architecture on this building it is across the street from the Right aid store. I took the picture out the window of the car because it was raining.




I thought my boys would like this sign because they say cool beans all the time.





The high school Doug went to before they moved to California and then to Bellevue were he finished school.









We were driving down to Fairhaven beach and stopped at the corner and there were 4 dear in someones front yard eating Berry's so I had to get a picture out of the car window since my camera was on my lap.







Cool house that I saw as we drove by. Pink... but still cool.






The sun came out for about 45 minutes. I was so excited. Great timing for the beach. It sure went down fast though.













There was a lady drumming on an Indian drum. We happened to strike up a conversation with her and she took our picture for us.



It was nice to have a little bit of sunshine.

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