Things That I Learned on Vacation

• It's really hard to breathe at 9000 feet. Fiddling even got me out of breath. Dancing is almost entirely out of the question.
  
• Copper River salmon is one of the tastiest fishes known to mankind.
• The Olympic Peninsula is fantastically beautiful.
• Raglan sweaters are really, really low fuss. I must knit more of these.
• Seattle has an awesome bus system.
  
• Dale of Norway baby patterns are often just too cute to pass up.
• The Northwest Folklife festival is gigantic! On Sunday there were easily 500 dancers on the floor. The default dance was contra dance (when there wasn't, say, polka or tango music).
  
• Dancing at sea level after having danced at 9000 feet makes your feet do things you never thought possible.