Another weekend flew by; luckily, the good weather stayed with us. It feels like springtime. I love walking to M's office with the sun setting gloriously between the Sound and the Olympic Mountains, quite a breathtaking view accompanying me on my walk along the water front. Now it's almost half way into the week, I feel like recapturing our weekend activities in a laundry list format (when and what):
Friday evening after work: We tried a new downtown restaurant, Qube. The food was good; the price was a bit high; the service was fine; the ambiance was sleek and chic, also full of youthful and metrosexual energy.
On the way home after dinner, we checked out a couple of movies from Planet Hollywood, one of which was "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," the 1975 Oscar Award movie. Quite a movie! Awesome!
Saturday:
Saturday morning, M made omelet and we read Sunday newspapers together.
Lounging around, surfing around, cleaning up around the house, time just went by.
Late in the afternoon, as a spur-of-the-moment decision, we drove to Volunteer Park for a nice walk. While we were in the park, we stopped by the Green House and admired all the beautiful plants and flowers. Then we crossed over a fallen fence between the park and a cemetery. There, we zigzagged around tomb stones, and bet on in which year the oldest tome stone was erected or laid down here. The result? Roughly the late 19th century. The view from the hilltop that is part of the cemetery was stunning - what a nice piece of land to rest one's soul! We also stumbled upon Bruce Lee's tomb, right next to his son's. In fact, there are a fair number of Asians buried here.
Popped into Daiso just when a fire alarm went off, the whole Westlake Center was being evacuated and people were looking at each other in disbelief and confusion. I didn't see the source of smoke or fire. There was no panic, just shopping crowds filing out of the building obediently following a voice coming out of a speaker up in the ceiling. Instead of waiting around, I walked to BB&B and got a faucet-mounted water filter and we drove to M's brother's house for dinner.
We ate and hung out at their house and played with 3 babies. Babies are really popping up everywhere! We left around 10pm for another event, the 3rd Annual Weird Genius Science Fair, which happens to be in the newly renovated Youngstown Cultural Arts Center right in our neck of woods, West Seattle. Mostly young people - freaks, geeks and yuppies, people of all types - were there. There was the biggest baking soda volcano demonstration, artificial snow, the world viewed from insects' eyes (you actually were required to put on a pair of wings and some sort of headgear with contraptions that would allow you see the world in their way), thermal reactive TV screen etc. I'm not a science enthusiast, but it was fun watching them churning some fun out of science.
Sunday:
Late in the morning, I cooked a crustless Quiche with soy milk. It turned out well. A bit sweet - something that I didn't expect to taste - little wonder that I used VANILLA soymilk!
Afternoon-Evening: We spent the whole afternoon and evening working on a home improvement project - about 5 hours to transport rocks from our neighbour's front yard to our yard and align them along the sidewalk next to our front lawn so that the soil and plants won't overgrow onto the sidewalk. We thought it'd take us 2 hours. It turned out to be a much bigger project. Transporting those heavy and bulky rocks was the most time-consuming part; of course, arguing over which rocks goes in where was also exhausting:) But, we got it down without throwing shovels at each other. Alas.
We ended a productive weekend with the movie, La Petite Jerusalem.
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