I was 12 in 1962 when Seattle held the World's Fair. I remember going on the space needle and seeing the world below me. It was pretty amazing. I'm thinking we went on the monorail but I don't have any images in my mind about it so maybe I just saw it but never travelled ON it. Strange, most of those memories from my youth are not brought to mind often. You need people to talk about different things and that usually stimulates your memories. There isn't anyone around now from my years of 8-16 that I could dredge up stories except for my brothers who also are not around. When we do get together we usually talk about what's current and not about our past antics as kids. 

The reason all this space needle jargon came up was because I was watching a movie tonite called Love Happens with Jennifer Aniston. The setting was in Seattle. The space needle was prominent in many of the photos. I also recall the downtown Farmers Market from 2002 when I took some training in Seattle for Stephen Ministry with a friend of mine. We had taken the afternoon off and gone shopping and had wandered down the cobblestone road to the market and to the many shops along the shore. I vaguely remember the shops but I do remember eating in the open air market. It was in August so the weather was beautiful.

I know I have a picture somewhere of my brother and me taken at a monument in the Rogers Pass on our trip to Seattle. It is not on digital and I have yet to scan it so the only other photo I have is one of when I was 11 - the year before the Seattle Worlds Fair. I guess I didn't change that much in one year so I've included it. I'm in the rust colored sweater. My two brothers are right behind me.

The lady in the red sweater is my cousin but because of our age difference, I always thought she was my aunt. The two other girls are her daughters which makes them my second-cousins but I always thought they were my cousins . The little one in the blue passed away when she was 40+ from cancer. Who knew eh? Maybe it is a good thing we don't know what our future has in store for us. Some of us would simply quit, while others would want to accomplish so much more in the little time available to them. Which one would you be?

Ah memories, 
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