I biked to Seattle U on Thursday to see how long it takes as I really should start biking there especially since it is still light outside (kinda) around 9pm when I am coming back. It was fun, but I forgot to bring my lock, so I could not really stop once I got there. I did meet Amanda for lunch; we just ate outside of one of the Harborview cafes. One of her coworkers (whom I guess was not in clinic that day) asked where we “dumped the kid!” and Amanda replied “Hey, we’re on a date!”
Amanda and I had went on another date on Saturday… dinner and a movie! I don’t exactly recall the last time we did so. It was a surprise to me (perhaps to Amanda as well?), so we were not prepared for dinner reservations somewhere, and a few restaurants I do want to do to eventually did not have any openings. We ended up taking the train downtown and had dinner at at Pintxo in Belltown; as their name suggests, they serve pintxos which are kinda like Basque tapas. Tasty!
After dinner, we went to the top of Pacific Place to check out a movie; Amanda’s mom had given us a couple of tickets that she had purchased at a discount from work. We were not too inspired by the movies. I was leaning towards Priest (in 3D!) but Amanda did not want to shell out another $1.50 new movie surchage plus another $4 3D surcharge. We ended up watching Thor which was also available in 3D but we saw the normal version. It was much better than I thought it would be; we were both entertained.
While all this was going on, the Kai was also on a dinner-and-a-movie date with his grandmother. They went to Red Robin and then saw Rio.
On Sunday, we retrieved the Kai when we all met up at St. Dames for bfast.
That afternoon, our sewer backed up and started spewing crap (literally) down the front slope of our house. I suppose we are fortunate that it is not backing up into the house; that’s happened to me before and is far less fun. It looks like it is coming up a now unused drainpipe where a gutter used to drain (though not anymore).
I did manage to get someone in to hopefully take care of it (i.e. hopefully it is just clogged as opposed to the sewer line needing repair). I am waiting for them now for an 11am-1pm appointment. I suppose as always they will show up at 1.