We exited the house quickly this morning to have bfast at Geraldine’s Counter right when it opened before it got packed (which it invariably does on the weekends). Our waiter was a guy I knew from my old gym that I have not gone to in ages… well, I can’t now since I cancelled the membership a while ago. Bfast was good. Amanda had her usual avocado and pepperjack omelette, I had a sweet corn, herb, and havarti scramble thing, and the Kai had a couple of pancakes. Or rather, he had a bit of pancake and various samples of our food. I also got a basket of fries because I was really really hungry for some reason, perhaps because I did not eat a lot the day before.
After lunch, we stopped back home for a bit. I finally met our new neighbor (who is renting our old neighbor’s place). She was bummed out because her friend’s truck had been broken into the night before… her first night in the place. “Welcome to the neighborhood!” She apparently works at Swedish doing some medical education something-or-other. I heard that part secondhand from Amanda as I was inside getting stuff when she was chatting with the neighbors.
We then headed off to West Seattle to hang out with the EP-KK Clan. We had not seem them in couple of months. Now that we both have kids it seems even harder to get together as everyone’s schedule is compressed dealing with the kiddies. And since Amanda works a lot of weekends and we have only one car (so that I can’t go anywhere) even the weekends are booked up. Unlike the AC-MC clan who live very close to us and can drop by for a quick visit, it is a bit more involved for us to get to each other’s homes. And of course Baby K is still practically a newborn.
But this weekend Amanda was not working, and it was good to see them (after a quick look at a house on Beacon Hill and getting briefly trapped in SODO trying to get on the West Seattle Bridge). They did seemed tired, KK more so. EP is probably more used to being outrageously tired as a doctor. They had to do a lot of house projects; they were in process of replacing their front steps as the old one had been getting too rotted out. And they had the outside painted, but in the process of painting they discovered they had a lot of rotting siding and whatnot. Ug. EP said next time they will get a new house.
Baby K at three months seemed rather agreeable.
We walked about the West Seattle Farmers Market,and then sat in Coffee to a Tea for a while, although I spent a lot of time watching the Kai in the kid’s play area the place had. At the market the Kai hiked around a tree in a big planted area and acted like he was on a grand adventure. He clearly would’ve hiked around for a long long time, but we had other things to do.
After leaving the coffee place we headed back to the market to actually get stuff. I got some asparagus and some tomato starts for our garden.
We bid farewell to the EP-KK clan and headed back home quickly as the Kai was overdue for a nap. We almost got nailed by a spinning metal thingamabob that had flown off an RV, but Amanda successfully executed various evasive maneuvers.
While the Kai was sleeping, I caught up on finances while Amanda spaced out playing games on my phone. Later I went to the P-Patch to prepare the plot for the tomatoes. I hope to get them in the ground in a couple of days if the weather cooperates. Amanda brought Lonan later after his nap.
Then if was off to University Village so that Amanda could look for a new shirt/blouse that would go with her suit as she is going to a conference in Vancouver on Tuesday. We met up with the AC-MC Clan there. Amanda, AC, and LC went off on the clothing hunt while MC, CC, Lonan, and I walked about and killed time… mainly at the playground and playing on the various sculptures in the area.
Amanda was denied in the clothing hunt, so we regrouped and had dinner at Blue C Sushi. We got there at the perfect time and scored a booth with no wait.
After dinner, there was more clothing hunting and more playground time, but Amanda was again denied. CC fell off a planter thing, but seemed none the worse for wear after an examination and lot of screaming.
LK wanted cupcakes because he is a decadent boy. Fortunately for us, the cupcake place was closed by the time we headed out. Since there was no cupcakes, we headed back to the AC-MC residence for ice cream. After dessert and a bath for the kiddies we headed back home.
Amanda took a shower while I put Lonan down for bed. She then did some administrative things and made some calls and then headed up to bed as she has a 6am-10pm shift tomorrow. I did some cleaning and cooked up a stir fry for LK’s lunch tomorrow. They are having chicken stir fry, and nowadays I try to match whatever meat thing they are serving. Lonan had been getting sad when he had something drastically different than the other kids on meat days.
Time for a bit more cleaning and then bed.
