Amanda had a day off today. I took the day off, too. After a leasurely morning, we went off to the Japanese Garden. Actually, Amanda freaked out about her current email situation first (too much, unorganized, hates client, etc) , so we dealt with that.
On the way, we noticed that someone scraped one of our bumpers at some point. At least it was the bumper (as opposed to whoever dented one of the doors).
The garden was nice. It looked like there was a school field trip going on; there were three largish clusters of people (mostly of elementary school age) wandering about. We were amazing that there were so many turtles in the pond… perhaps 15 or more. I only saw one male mallard, but there were two pairs of gadwalls there. They are dabblers like mallards but are much more uniform in color (grey/brown bodies with brown heads).
Amanda then went off to Group Health for an appointment. Her leg/back has been paining her. They didn’t know what was up but gave her a muscle relaxant to help her sleep.
We went off to the International District and had a early dinner at the Vegetarian Bistro. It was fun, as we had not eaten out in quite a while. The food was very good, we had veggie eggrolls, fried enoki mushrooms, veggie general tsao’s chicken, and stir fried mangoes and veggie prawns. Everything was very good, although the veggie prawns were a little weird. They were actually a bit tasteless, but they looked exactly like prawns.
We then took a walk to Uwajimaya, and got a few groceries and looked at other random items.
Amanda wanted to see the townhhouse, so we did a drive by. Those guys are really cranking on next set of eight townhouses, although it was not clear if any more progress was being done on ours. There was a worker still there at around 7pm washing off some painting equipment. He must have been painting the other two units in our group of four. I dunno if they will finish by the end of the month, but who knows.
At home I spaced out a bit with the piglet on my lap while Amanda talked on IM, caught up on some computer work (I think), and continued to look at real estate to confirm we got a reasonable deal. That is OK, I still do that, too.
I tried to get some exercise in, and did managed to do some lifting. I wimped out on running, though, as I was still very full from dinner.