Our favourite park
We took the gang to our favourite park — sorry Angus, we didn't get to the bakery — to fly kites, admire the view and
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Wet day in Seattle
Crossing the 520 floating bridge on ST545 was depressing, mid span both sides of the lake were hidden by low cloud.
fortunately, the weather cleared quick smart,
but the kids weren't as cooperative when it came to grabbing a picture of all four of them!
Rule of thirds...
Rule of thirds? What rule of thirds ?
Expensive education? What expensive education?
Bucket & Spade
Note to self: before promising afternoon excursion with bucket and spade to build sand castles, ensure "beach" includes "sand".
Deception Pass
Our grand circular tour included Deception pass on the north end of Whidbey Island...
Granny I and Granny II
Two grannies came to visit, they had a great time even though many things were closed
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Tug tug
Inspired by the class B tug boat race...
... F made his own, with a little help from the center for wooden boats - thanks!
More on flickr .
Ships Ahoy
Checking out the action at Seattle Maritime Festival .
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Garden in May
Another year, another May, a different garden , but just as beau-de-ful.
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For Jekko
The deer came and visited us this morning
but they heard that Jekko had missed them, so they came back again this evening!
Start them young
All those late night conference calls on distributed applications with CORBA when H was 6 months old and not sleeping appear to have rubbed off, and not least because I discovered that CORBA was good for something…
Today email via sneaker-net; tomorrow kernel hacker?
Related link: bed time story for under five insomniacs .
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Litter bug advertising
It might only be second growth forest, but I'm sure this isn't the kind of advertising emerald city smoothie had in mind.
Four dry
Lake Washington is higher than usual ( check it out ) which meant the beach was under water and instead of playing around the rocks we had to balance on them.
Luckily we had no wet feet!
Flat chin
A last minute dive to stop H from scoring an equaliser resulted in a slight flattening of F's chin. It's alright, most people don't notice, especially in dim lighting.
