Beating the Heat

We're having a heat wave here in Seattle, with several days in the upper 80s/mid 90s, and Mama doesn't do so well with the heat now that she's a bona fide Pacific Northwesterner. So after Sofian got up from his nap, we headed to some air conditioning in the form of the Museum of Flight -- our first visit there. We've heard a lot of great things aboug it, especially from our pals Glenn and Lynn, whose boys have made it a favorite destination. We were hoping SoSo would take to it, and he certainly did, as the pics and vids below show.











After the museum, we headed down the the nearby Georgetown area of Seattle to our favorite pizza place, Stellar, which also offers some outside seating -- a favorite activity of Sofian's during the summer as he gets to watch a cavalcade of wheeled vehicles. (Mama and Papa also found a new favorite place -- Full Throttle Bottles, which sells loads of our favorite foreign and microbrew beers; we left with some Brother Thelonious -- Parie's new favorite -- and Laughing Buddha.)



And we ended the day with a nice cool bath.

 

Sofian at the Museum of Flight

and loving it.

Some of the new track

and we've got a lot more.

Puzzles at the library

construction-themed, of course

Checking out the new tracks

Scored a load of tracks and trains off of Craigslist this morning. I
think we'll have enough to tide us over for awhile.

Catching Up

Last night was a return of the old Sofian, where he was having some severe problems getting to sleep (brought on possibly/probably by his parents feeding him too much pizza at dinner) and I decided to drive the boy around to get him to sleep. Well, it wasn't a slam dunk. Usually, the car gets him to sleep pretty quickly, but last night it took 90 minutes. Got to see a lot of Seattle. And catch up on some podcasts. But he didn't get to sleep until very late (well after 11pm). And I've just gotten an update from the LemonDrop that he's refusing to take a nap today as well, so I might be headed home early to help with that.

Things are progressing in talks with two contractors about the upcoming addition to the house. Both are coming in with higher bids than we hoped (no surprise there), and Parie is going to take some time to try and sort out where we can try to save some money by cutting things out of the plans.

Here are some vids of the boy checking out his new ride-on recycling truck (the box calls it a garbage truck, but we like to think green around the LD):

 

On the merry-go-round at Ercolini Park