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19 Aug

First Bike Park Session

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Breakfast at Café Flora

Sennet’s school was off for teacher training day last Friday. Stacie had to work all day, so I took the day off to hang out with the kid. We first went to breakfast down the hill from our house at Café Flora (Sennet had scrambled eggs with cheese, and I had a wild mushroom scramble with herbs and Spanish Manchego cheese – good stuff).

Then I took Sennet over to Greenlake. They have a small area behind the ball fields with bike dirt jumps and a cement skate park. It was his first time riding either place. He had a blast riding up and down over the smaller dirt hills and then went around and around at the skate park. We spent about two hours total riding both places – I finally had to set the timer on my phone for 5 minutes to get him to leave. We’ll definitely be back. He loved it. Crazy to think he’s only 4 years and 55 days old.

Here’s a video of some of his runs:

13 Aug

Helicopter riding

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The scooters are called helicopters. Although Sennet would love to ride a real helicopter. Just another night hanging out with the neighbors and the kids playing. I’m not look forward to the days getting shorter and the grey, rainy winter….

10 Aug

volunteer park

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We went to a La Escuelita classmates birthday party today. Mena was there and there was a wading pool. It was fun.

04 Aug

Seafair 2013

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Patriots Jet Team

We walked down the hill from our house to Madrona Beach on Lake Washington to watch the Seafair Air Show. Usually it’s the US Navy Blue Angels, but due to the sequestration cuts they weren’t doing any shows this year. Seafair brought in the Patriots Jet Team, a civilian aerobatic formation team based in Byron, CA. They fly the Czech-built Aero L-39 Albatros planes, so they aren’t as fast, loud, or as powerful as the F/A-18 Hornets that the Blue Angels fly, but Sennet loved watching them nonetheless. Afterwards we picked wild blackberries along the lakeshore. Sennet proclaimed them “delicious!”

03 Aug

Dim Sum

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Dim sum /ˈdɪmˈsʌm/ refers to a style of Cantonese food prepared as small bite-sized or individual portions of food traditionally served in small steamer baskets or on small plates. Dim sum is also well known for the unique way it is served in some restaurants, whereby fully cooked and ready-to-serve dim sum dishes are carted around the restaurant for customers to choose their orders while seated at their tables.

Took Sennet to his first dim sum meal on Saturday morning. We had to go to Costco for groceries, and stopped at House of Hong in the Chinatown/International District afterwards. He liked it fairly well, and tried everything we ordered.
We got:
Chinese Broccoli w/Oyster Sauce
Lo Mein
Shrimp Dumplings (Steamed)
Vegetable Spring Rolls (fried)
Shrimp Toast
Steamed White Rice

He ate all his rice (of course), most of the lo mein noodles, two shrimp dumplings, and a bit of everything else. He didn’t care for the Chinese broccoli, but I thought it was great.

The food was pretty good, but I’ll try to find better dim sum at another restaurant next time.

29 Jul

Water Taxi

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Seattle has a water taxi service that runs from downtown across Elliot Bay to West Seattle and Vashon Island. On Sunday we met up with Mena and her parents and took the water taxi over to West Seattle (free for the kids, $4 for adults) and then walked north around the point to Alki Beach. The kiddos loved the boat, and loved digging in the sand for shells and rocks and running from the surf.

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