Weekend recap
Friday
Friday, I signed an offer letter for a job with Quardev, working at Google. Whew. Happy about having money coming in again.
Friday afternoon, I celebrated by hanging out with awesome friends. Started off by having a couple of hands of Kung Fu Fighting with tenshinokuroi (<- unofficial award for "hardest handle to spell"), then headed over to Noodle Land with oldmangrumpus and gardenprophet. After dinner, syukton joined us for a couple of games of Survive! (happy to report that the new edition is great) and a quick game of Quirkle, which one of our cohort (whose name escapes me... "Jim?") picked up after enjoying it quite a bit.
The evening concluded at gardenprophet's apartment for a screening of Undead or Alive, a zombie western starring Chris Kattan. There were funny moments, but as a whole- the less said about this, the better. :)
Leaving from there was a little beastly, as it turned out that 520 was closed, but the signage was confusing (is the *exit* closed, or is the *bridge* closed- turned out to be the latter). I got home around 2am, got to bed around 3.
Saturday
Saturday, we celebrated gNat's third birthday at the Country Village in Bothell. I'd been looking for a place where the gNat could feed some animals, and this place came up on an LJ community looking for petting zoos.
The day started off pretty dreary and drizzly, so we started at the Village Bean coffee shop, which has several kid-sized tables, a lot of toys for kids to play with, and two magnet walls for fun. After doing cupcakes and such, we took the kids behind the coffee shop to the park, which has a funky merry-go-round (springy animals on a rotating platform), a big pirate ship to climb on and in, a barn to climb up on, etc. The kids had a BLAST.
The big attraction for kids is the trackless train (note: there is a picture at the top, scroll to the bottom for playground pictures and more train info), and I put the whole party on the train, which drove us around the complex, did donuts in the parking lot (kind of), and was tons of fun for waving at people.
We wrapped up the day by stopping in at Toys that Teach, which is just an awesome toy store. Dear wordknitter: If you happen to pick up the Playmobil Zulu Warrior for me, I'd be stupidly excited about it. :)
Things we didn't do, that I'd like to do at another time: Putt-putt golf (course is too soggy right now), feeding the chickens, feeding the ducks.
That evening, I went over to oldmangrumpus's place to watch Black Dynamite, which was a ton of fun, and actually pretty good to boot.
Sunday
Father's day! Breakfast took a while to get going, but we ended up at (surprise!) the Little Red Hen, where I enjoyed a Chicken-Fried Steak and excellent company. I played video games with miniBot while gNat had his gNap (miniBot loves the Lode Runner level editor), and then in the afternoon we did a big grocery shop at QFC.
Good times. :)
Friday, I signed an offer letter for a job with Quardev, working at Google. Whew. Happy about having money coming in again.
Friday afternoon, I celebrated by hanging out with awesome friends. Started off by having a couple of hands of Kung Fu Fighting with tenshinokuroi (<- unofficial award for "hardest handle to spell"), then headed over to Noodle Land with oldmangrumpus and gardenprophet. After dinner, syukton joined us for a couple of games of Survive! (happy to report that the new edition is great) and a quick game of Quirkle, which one of our cohort (whose name escapes me... "Jim?") picked up after enjoying it quite a bit.
The evening concluded at gardenprophet's apartment for a screening of Undead or Alive, a zombie western starring Chris Kattan. There were funny moments, but as a whole- the less said about this, the better. :)
Leaving from there was a little beastly, as it turned out that 520 was closed, but the signage was confusing (is the *exit* closed, or is the *bridge* closed- turned out to be the latter). I got home around 2am, got to bed around 3.
Saturday
Saturday, we celebrated gNat's third birthday at the Country Village in Bothell. I'd been looking for a place where the gNat could feed some animals, and this place came up on an LJ community looking for petting zoos.
The day started off pretty dreary and drizzly, so we started at the Village Bean coffee shop, which has several kid-sized tables, a lot of toys for kids to play with, and two magnet walls for fun. After doing cupcakes and such, we took the kids behind the coffee shop to the park, which has a funky merry-go-round (springy animals on a rotating platform), a big pirate ship to climb on and in, a barn to climb up on, etc. The kids had a BLAST.
The big attraction for kids is the trackless train (note: there is a picture at the top, scroll to the bottom for playground pictures and more train info), and I put the whole party on the train, which drove us around the complex, did donuts in the parking lot (kind of), and was tons of fun for waving at people.
We wrapped up the day by stopping in at Toys that Teach, which is just an awesome toy store. Dear wordknitter: If you happen to pick up the Playmobil Zulu Warrior for me, I'd be stupidly excited about it. :)
Things we didn't do, that I'd like to do at another time: Putt-putt golf (course is too soggy right now), feeding the chickens, feeding the ducks.
That evening, I went over to oldmangrumpus's place to watch Black Dynamite, which was a ton of fun, and actually pretty good to boot.
Sunday
Father's day! Breakfast took a while to get going, but we ended up at (surprise!) the Little Red Hen, where I enjoyed a Chicken-Fried Steak and excellent company. I played video games with miniBot while gNat had his gNap (miniBot loves the Lode Runner level editor), and then in the afternoon we did a big grocery shop at QFC.
Good times. :)