It’s Memorial weekend and I’m actually almost writing this in real time…meaning it’s still technically the weekend and I’m actually already posting! Greg left for China on Friday so Fi and I have the 3 day weekend all to ourselves. This trip is only 8 days…which is relatively short for China trips. It’s funny when Greg is gone the old highly-social me comes back out and Fi and I seem to have plans from morning to night. When daddy is home we are much more likely to be found around the house.
Saturday morning Fi and I got up and took Zoe dog to the arboretum to meet Ellie and Jackson for a walk/hike/park date. It was supposed to be cold and rainy…and looked that way when we left the house….turns out the sun quickly burnt through the clouds and Fi and I were roasting in our long sleeves. We still had a great time playing on the slide and wandering through the beautiful park. Ellie and I have found that (during non-traffic times) the montlake area is a perfect place for us to meet and seems to be about half-way time wise between our houses. Lucky for us there is lot’s to do in that area.
After the arboretum we went home for a nap ( well…fi napped…I cleaned the bathroom, weeded the front a bit, took a shower, made us lunch and packed her bag for the next adventure. When Fi woke up we headed to Seattle to meet Tami and Jennifer (friends from work…well really friends…but i work with them too =) and we went off to the Folk Life Festival. On our way I handed Fi one of her favorite books in the car and she read it all the way to Tami’s house….it was so funny to look back at her and see her calmly reading her book while we drove:
Fiona thought it was pretty funny when we picked up Jen and Tami and quickly embraced the “girls” trip. Folk life was a ZOO. Obviously I am a different person then I was not long ago….or there really are just that many more crazy people out there. The crowd was packed into the Seattle Center. It was hard to find any music…which was a shame…We found a funny group of people dancing…great people watching….and caught the end of a fabulous African Band (fi had a chance to show off her dancing skills) but for the most part we hung out on a grass long in the “children’s” section….that had little going on so there were hardly any people there. We walked around the park once and J-Go…true to form…found us some free yogurt samples which I believe was the highlight to Fi’s trip. People were tripping on the stroller and giving dirty looks…I was trying really hard not to run into anyone. I was happy to leave. It made me wonder if it was really that bad or if I was just that much older/different. Anyway….we went to Georgetown where the crowds are small and the people are sweet. We ate dinner at Calamity Jane’s and had a wonderful time.
