This is just a documentary of our weekend. We had a lot of fun, it's just that it's probably only interesting in certain circles.
Stephen had a furlough day on Friday so we went for a hike on a trail outside of Issaquah with our friend Hillary and her kids Asha and Keiran, I was also watching Aiden so we had 5 kids under 5.
It had a trail through a swampy area that had parts of a children's story about animals in a swamp. The kids LOVED it.
Asha and Odessa were wearing the same shirt bought at the same thrift store!Saturday we went to the Seattle FolkLife Festival. The whole Seattle Center was full of street performers of various kinds. Punk "folk" bands, people playing a washboard, an old man playing a saw with a violin bow, a bagpiper in military goth get-up who rocked the crowds.
The theaters on campus were full of scheduled venue and of course we sought out the fiddling performance. Stephen loves fiddling, care of his roots being from Weiser Idaho and the National Oldtime Fiddlers Contest that is held in Weiser each year. The fiddling at Folklife was held in a cool dark theater crammed with older patrons who eyed our children warily. But both girls sat on our laps quietly, maybe they'll learn to appreciate fiddling like their dad. I loved the crowds and booths of artsy fartsy stuff. I get this strange rush of endorphins- weird, huh?Monday we went hiking in Discovery Park which is only a couple miles down the road from us here in Magnolia. This is one of the lowest tide times of the year and we got to the beaches just in time! We got to see a whole crop of starfish, sea cucumbers, sea anenomes, etc. We even found a moon snail shell and got "spit" on by lots of clams! They squirt water all the time, it's hilarious.
The tide came in while we were there and covered the tide pools we walked in and the sand bars we played in. For first-timers, we were lucky to hit it when we did.
Bye, bye sand bar
Discovery Park houses Fort Lawton and so we visited the the military cemetary there. Thank you Veterans, Happy Memorial Day.
4 comments:
Odessa's glasses are sweet! I want them. Great pictures from Discovery Park!
Nathan wanted to go to the cemetary on Monday, too, so we went. It was nice, but not worthy of a photo--you have a good one.
Wow...how fun! You have officially done way more than we have in this town, and we've lived here for 6 years. I want to go to that issaquah swamp place (but probably never wil...)
What beautiful pictures. You certainly make the most of where you live and see and do so much. I think that is great!
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