Mother's Birthday

For Mommy's birthday dinner, we had halibut, steak, corn, grilled veggies, caprese salad, and asparagus. Momma was so happy! I bought her a red skirt, that's really comfy, she says its her traveling skirt. Happy Birthday Momma!!

WOW, Mount Rainier, Greek delicous

I haven't posted for a while because I LOVE WOW, World of Warcraft. Its an online mmorpg, so much fun :D. We went to Mount Rainier, huge mountain, I climbed some rocks, but that was tiny compared to the whole thing. They gave us a hilarious paper that said,

If you see a black bear or mountain lion...

Close encounters with Black Bears

• Never feed a bear, either intentionally or by leaving food unsecured.
• Do not approach bear cubs.
• Back away slowly, do not run. Talk loudly

If Charged by a black bear

• Act aggressively, shouting, throwing rocks and sticks
• If the bear attacks and you do not have food, fight back aggressively.

close encounters with a Mountain lion

• Do not run or turn your back
• stand up tall, open your jacket, yell, throw things
• stand in a group
• Pick up and hold small children
• If attacked fight back. stay standing. hit as hard as possible especially in the head use a stick or rock as a weapon, THROW DIRT IN ITS EYES-

what?!? throw dirt in its eyes? really? like that will do much. Its a mountain lion for gods sakes! But it is better than Yellowstone's rules.

• lay on the ground
• fake death
• roll up in the fetal position
• suck your thumb
• put yourself on a giant white platter and cover yourself in gravy.

We went swimming at the coldest lake in the world, the water was from glaciers! If you stayed in too long you would DIE. Polar Bear club anybody? We had delicious Greek salad for dinner, oh how i love my mothers cooking.

Aquarium / Serious Pie

We went to the aquarium today, it was really cool, I wasn't as into it as my dad though. He loves fish. We saw soo many fish too. We saw Eel and sharks too. You could pet the sea urchins, that was freaky. There was an arch that you could walk through inside the arch, were jellyfish. That was really cool. We saw Harbor Seals, they were sooo cute! We also saw otters. One of the otters climbed up on a rock right in front of me and had explosive diarrhea. EW! I am scarred for life! There was the little pictures that you could put your head into. "How childish" I thought. I was over there in a second with my head in the frame yelling take a picture! We saw little tiny seahorses too. How cute. Afterwards we went to Serious Pie. Tyler Florence from food network told us to go there on The Best Thing I Ever Ate. We ordered 7 PIZZAS. By the end of this I couldn't move. We got buffalo mozzarella, San Marzano tomato pizza. Which was the winner out of the seven.

Revolving Sushi (Heaven?) / company picnic

We went to a sushi place (I cannot recall the name) with REVOLVING SUSHI! I thought I died and went to heaven. You could grab sushi right off the conveyor belt and eat it! Each dish was only 1-3 dollars! Today we went to Augusta's company picnic. The food was great, and we found out her company is going on vacation to Maui next year. Exciting right? They had Segway lessons there, I learned how to ride! Its really not that hard. Lean forward to go forward lean back to go back and there is a switch thingy to turn.

Guest Blogger: Mom

I will have to do the commentary on the Red Hook Brewery tour, Tristan would have liked to go on the tour but since he can not drink beer (legally) he stayed back to play World of Warcraft. Well after much arm twisting we got Ben to go on the Red Hook Brewery Tour in Woodinville, WA. (Just across the road from Chateau Ste. Michelle Winery - which I toured on a previous visit - delicious!) Lots of fun, the guide was hilarious and the history of the company interesting.

Augusta and I, not noted for our beer drinking capacities, would have a sip of the different samples (which included their Slim Chance light beer, SunRye Summer Ale, Red Hook EBS, Longhammer IPA, and Blackhook Porter)and then gave Ben the rest. He definitely enjoyed their liquid goodness! I think we agreed that the SunRye Summer Ale was the best! We also had the opportunity to see the bottling process - impressive. We enjoyed a nice dinner outdoors after the tour.

The Docks/Pike street 2nd trip

We went to the docks, so Dad could see some sweet fishing. It was pretty decently paved so I did some skating. We went onto the docks, It was pretty cool. You would need some heavy duty rods to fish there. Dad went up to a man fishing on the docks, he was pretty nice, his name is Gill. Me and Mom kept teasing Dad saying Gill was his best friend. It was pretty funny. Later on we went to Pike street for lunch, remember the best clam chowder ever that I posted about? This was better. It won the Rhode Island best chowder contest. It made my mouth water. It was fantastic!!

Pike Street

We went to Pike street today. Since it is the weekend, the place was flooded. It was seriously an ocean of people! I have never seen anything like it in my life! There were these gates right by were we entered, they were beautifully formed! It looked like metal vines and leafs and flowers all in a repeating design. We decided to go and get fish from Pike Place Fish co. because Gussa told us it was one of the fish places were they let you choose your fish and then they throw it to each other and say what the fish is called and if you want it filleted or on ice etc. There were lots of people playing music and stuff on the streets to earn money. There was one guy on the streets who was doing something pretty cool. He was hula hooping, while playing a guitar, and a harmonica, AND singing. Talent people, that's talent. I had clam chowder at Pike street too. It was the best clam chowder I have ever had. And I've had a lot of clam chowder in my life. After Pike Street, we went to a park. Gus, Patrick, Mom, and I, decided to go down 9 million stairs to the water. We just ending up walking two miles instead of going back up the stairs to the car.

Days 9-10

We went into Seattle and went past the first Starbucks EVER! That was exciting. I wanted to go there, but there was a line out the door. My dad has an interview! I bought a skateboard. I'm getting better and better. I am having so much fun that I'm having a hard time posting. I will post some pics of me skateboarding tomorrow.