We have our 70th birthday party for Dad today, and given that I have only two work days until I fly out to the Twin Cities for the Co+nvergence conference, I thought it best to knock out a quick post now, covering Friday and Saturday.
Laney and I went to a movie on Friday, and we both liked it quite a lot:
Weapons. I really can't recommend it enough.
The showtime was at AMC Pacific Place at 4:10, and I left work at about 3:55 to ride my bike over there, even though I still have lots to get done at work. But whatever, it'll work out, it always does. That AMC has gotten unbelievably janky of late, with both escalators inside the theater out of order
and the elevator not working, necessitating people use the back stairwell to get to the second level for movies playing in the theaters up there. I arrived on Friday and saw the up escalator actually working for once, and thought:
They fixed everything! But, no: down-escalator is still down, as is the elevator. We still had to use the stairwell to get back down.
Oh well. At least the movie was worth it. Laney has been walking a lot earlier in the day lately and so never wants to walk back up the hill after movies, and I typically have my bike anyway, so as usual this time Laney went to catch the bus at the Convention Center, and I rode my bike the rest of the way home, where I then wrote my review.
That brings us to yesterday, when Laney and I did something for our weekend Happy Hour that we've talked about for months, and ages ago scheduled for this weekend: we took two connecting RapidRide buses out to Lincoln Park in West Seattle, down by the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal. She brought her two lawn chairs, and I carried one of them once I met at her building at noon. We then walked over to the Starbucks at the QFC on Pike and Broadway where Laney bought an Impossible Breakfast Sandwich to go (I need to try one of those one of these days), then headed over to Madison to catch the G line at 12:22. We transferred to the C line downtown, which took us straight to the Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal. We then walked a bit on the beach side of Lincoln Park, which I hadn't even realized was right next door to that ferry, and set up our chairs on the beach right near "
Bruun Idun," one of the "
Way of the Bird King"
Northwest Trolls by Danish "recycle art activist"
Thomas Dambo.
We both took a few photos of the troll before we sat on the beach not far from it, put sunscreen on, and ate, drank and chatted for the next few hours. I had made macaroni & cheese at Shobhit's suggestion, having it for dinner Friday and packing a container to eat at Lincoln Park with Laney; I otherwise brought a tumbler bottle full of Cherry Cola Zevia soda with three shots of rum in it.
I only later realized this was
my third visit to Lincoln Park—I had totally forgotten visiting there once with Gabriel and Kornelija briefly in 2012. I only took three photos that day, but still put them in their own photo album last night just so I could make a Lincoln Park collection with three separate photo albums in it. The
19 shots from yesterday were much more than I expected to take, and so they got their own album too. The first time was part of my "Seattle Parks Tour" of the
largest city parks in Seattle that I did in 2006—nineteen years ago!—when I learned that the 135 acres (0.21 square miles) of Lincoln Park made it the 10th largest park in Seattle. It's very pretty, both in its wooded interior (which I focused on in 2006, though it appears I did go briefly to the beach, contrary to what I thought I remembered); and the photos from yesterday are very much focused on the beach. I should also note that my 2006 visit was in April and the 2012 visit was in March, both of them wet or cold; yesterday was my first time visiting the park in the summer.
And it was quite lovely. Good to have sunblock handy, basically perfect temperature, great company as always. It was probably around 5:45 when we caught a bus back, so I was home roughly an hour later. Shobhit and I caught up on some Apple TV shows, and that basically catches you up on my weekend. Now I can get ready to head down to Olympia for Dad's birthday party! He actually turned 70 last Tuesday, but the party is today. I think a pretty huge number of people will be coming. There have been 19 RSVPs to the Facebook event, and most of those are just one person speaking for their whole family. I know that, according to Angel, there will be six or seven tables. In any case, I am looking forward to it.
[posted 10:05am]
