Month started out with mom baking some more tasty treats.
A tour of Jeffrey's new school he'll be attending next year.
Trying one of the walkable Mexican restaurants. Not particularly impressed.
Had an afternoon off so we stopped at a bike shop we pass all the time to look at it.
Not sure about the story here.
A bubble tea line for a place in the U district somehow wrapping around the block
twinsies
Getting a retirement ID
Mom took the minivan for some reason so I got to drive the BMW to Fort Lewis.
Down in Pioneer Square
Helping with work
Kids can vote now
One last look at the bathtub before it goes into storage
Very intense suburban dad basketball faces for photographer Huey
Nice day so I sat out front for probably 30 minutes.
A cat we saw when playing basketball, resisted any pets
There's a secret park just to our south that has no play equipment, just a Madrone tree and a nice view.
Someone had never had poutine and I could not allow that to continue
This is her "I'm next to an interesting car" pose.
Took the kids to cars and coffee at Madrona Park.
Some maniac imported a rare-even-in-Japan Toyota Century luxury car.
Somewhere in SODO
Valentines Day bowling and roller-disco event run by a local radio station
Oscar greeted the movers when our things showed up from Germany
Drop off a bag of Dick's for the sausage punching crew
Gave the Peruvian place down the street a try
Two kids and mom went to see Granny during her hip surgery recovery
Hiking with Annika doing an Issaquah tour
Issaquah doesn't really know what it wants to be but humorously enough, it has many denser neighborhoods than vast parts of Seattle proper.
You can see downtown Seattle and Bellevue from the park
Meanwhile in Charleston, fam converges
Bit of double armwrestling to prove superiority
Kids are gone so even more hiking, this time took a ferry to Vashon
We were joined this time by the delightful Whitney who was in town.
Here's a bike stuck in a tree you see on buzzfeed and other online rags.
The same bike in the 80s
Pizza stop post-hiking
Dinner at the Cuban/Venezuelan place down the street
Meanwhile in Charleston
Headed over to Grayland for some beach time. First of three times trips out to one of the docks for crabbing.
Quite a rough day at sea. Serious waves out a little ways.
Kids really will think it's a great idea to walk barefoot on the beach in 30 degree weather and some parents will let them.
Second trip to the crabbing spot, nothing big enough to keep, throwing a few smaller ones back in.
Taught this one how to have fun with fireworks many years ago, now he teaches my kids.
Let him try driving the antique
Third trip out, 7 or so large males between several traps. Good day crabbing!
He says "oh no, I am big enough to keep"
Family pic at the beach house
Meanwhile in Charleston, a little more grandkid therapy before its time to go
Friends showed up from Alaska, we gave them the customary greeting
Back to the Peruvian joint
At the Boeing museum, taking a propaganda break
Visited a friend's house downtown
A holdout near Pioneer Square
Drank scotch at a pub named after this guy
Just being extra-Alaskan
Laura had a conference down by the Space Needle so she rode the train and monorail to work
