An old pal, Captain Amy, organized a photo scavenger hunt for a group of friends. She kicked it off with a list of 24 words or themes to photograph yesterday, at 3 PM. We gathered this afternoon for the voting with our printed images. Everyone chipped in $10 for a grand prize.
Mr. T and I were a team – we won! My favorite picture is shown above, and it demonstrates the word Little. It’s my little piglet from Cochon Butcher — the “baby” in the king cake I carried across the country in February.
Today was our first day of sailing class. Here’s the view from where we had lunch.
In the evening, we had a big gathering (co-hosted at a friend’s place), for our friends in town on shore leave from Afghanistan.
Tomorrow, we start sailing classes. Tonight, Mr. T & I went to Evans Pool at Greenlake for our mandatory Float Test — 10 minutes treading water, fully dressed in long pants and long sleeves.
We celebrated our passing score over ice cream, with Celine and Ms. N.
The neighbor’s tree, always reminds me of a childhood song we used to sing in Primary.
I looked out the window and what did I see?
Popcorn popping on the apricot tree.
Spring has brought me such a nice surprise!
Popcorn popping right before my eyes.
Two of our very good friends are in town this week, for home leave after their first Afghanistan tour. We took them to a very Seattle place, the Latona Pub, where they could partake of bacon, seafood, and beer.
I spent some quality time at my favorite place, the library. Of course, I approve of this year’s Adult Summer Reading theme.
Tonight: dinner with two of my closest friends, at Greenlake.
A friend is one of chefs at the new Little Water Cantina in Eastlake. When Rocky suggested we get together to discuss our upcoming NYC visit, it seemed a great opportunity to pay our first visit since he knows her too.
We tried the salsa, guacamole, mochomos, rockfish tacos, and the chili-chocolate cookie sundae. We couldn’t get enough of the salsa, guac, or tacos. We’ll be back to take advantage of the deck. Bonus: tons of Rocky wisdom for our upcoming voyage to the East Coast!
Today was one of the best sunny Spring days yet. Even the newspaper held out great hope.
And then we did reach 70 degrees!
Mr. T & I met up with sprizee and suomynona for dinner at Revel.
You can view great Revel pictures of suomynona’s here. Our most recent meal is towards the end of the set.
“Finally, some sunshine!” Yes!
I had dinner at Facebook Seattle.
I visited a new building today. By luck, I discovered this is my friend’s workplace!
West Seattle loves its murals. This is behind the Shell next to the Met Market.
Visited Esquin with friends tonight. I’d not noticed the SoDo pink elephant before.
After a fine meeting with my fellow canners tonight, I stopped to enjoy the sunset along Alki. Big announcement soon on some exciting Summer plans.
These flowers greet me when I come and go everyday.
Just another Seattle Spring Monday, but this time with a different view from a new undisclosed location on the westside.
Ready for the sunshine: today, it was warm enough to wear a sundress!
Tonight, I went with 3 girlfriends to see David Sedaris speak at Benaroya. Loved it.
(I’m so far behind here, I’m just going to start again with May, and later, point you to the Czech, German, and North Carolina photos. This happens too often!)
A business meeting on the west side of the Vltava motivated me across town on a sleepy, partly cloudy morning. After attending to that, and lunch at the Cafe Savoy, Mr. T and I wandered the Mala Strana.
We soon found the Lennon wall, a constant work in progress.
Nearby, we found another remnant of Euro youth pop culture: the love locks.
A Prague visit would be incomplete without anything obviously surreal:
Soon, we needed to wrap our wanderings up, for the evening book launch party being held in conjunction with the opening art exhibition. We took the opposite of a shortcut to the apartment to make sure we paid homage to the local Gehry installation.
Seattle was robbed with that EMP blob.
We headed back to the Castle for the evening book launch party. The book’s publication was held in conjunction with the exhibition, and tonight featured speeches by descendants of the Futurists. Family stories were shared, and many family members from around the world met each other for the first time before and after the main presentations.
When the after-party finally ended, our gang of 6 made our way to Malostranska Beseda, for another typico Czech dinner. Mr. T ordered yet another pork leg, and the beer drinkers had their toast!
For brunch today, Mr. T and I went with our friend (the inspiration for #5 in this menu, a righteous dude himself) to Lunchbox Lab. It felt important to me to commemorate.
The Tearjerker: Kobe beef, pepperjack, onions, jalapeno, habanero mayo, and Satan’s Tears ketchup. Not pictured: sweet potato fries with rosemary salt, nor the wicked awesome Heath Toffee Chocolate Shake.
We ordered our burgers, splurged on the shakes and drinks, and dedicated our meal to the creative force behind LL, who passed away recently. For someone I did not know personally, and only met when he worked at his grill, I was (am) surprised at how taken aback I was by this premature death.
RIP, Scott.