Wednesday 23 December 2009

Wednesday 23 December 2009

Awake: 8:02am    Temp? sleep 7+17    mostly cloudy    overnight @ Seattle, WA.

For today's dinner, Kathy needs meat & other groceries...so that must be done sometime soon.

Nick had an annual physical about 11:00am in Queen Anne close enough that he could walk to. While Nick was doing that, Eriko & Jerry were driving across town to where she teaches a rhythm class to small children. After the rhythm class, Eriko & Jerry went to a play group with some of Eriko's friends & their children. Their schedule allows Nick to be free to roam with us during the afternoon.

Zack went to sleep late last night, woke up about 5:00am & took Nate to the airport. We figured he'll be sleeping a little later this morning & he did.

About 11:20am, Zack drove us to the toy store in Queen Anne: "Once Upon a Child" where we searched for certain gifts for Jerry & other members of the family. Nice store with a lot of things displayed from Europe, ....... & other countries. Katrina made a nice purchase for one of her friends, otherwise that was it.

When Nick finished his physical, he walked over & joined our group. Just across the street was yet another toy store; not much to choose from so we all got in Zack's Camry & headed south to Costco.

Nick introduced Zack to a shortcut path leading to Costco; very scenic & @  times...scary.  Zack introduced Nick to a new theory of driving a car with no fuel! As a matter of fact, we all became interested in seeing Zack's amazing demonstration; not scenic but also scary.

We were all in favor of having Zack fuel up 1^st when we arrived @ Costco...except Katrina. She had to go to the bathroom so she was let out pronto.

After a few hrs of perusing most of the things Costco had to offer, we checked out, paid our bill, & headed back north to main downtown Seattle. Zack the driver was following Nick's route for yet another toy store called: "Magic Mouse Toys" on 1^st Ave. Parking was a problem but the boys let us out & they moved the auto twice during the (40) some min we were in the store. This toy store had it all; I've never seen any toy store like it yet.

 We found what we wanted & headed back to lower Queen Anne where we picked up a few more things at that Safeway.

Zack dropped Katrina & Nick off @ his condo while Kathy & I went back to Zack's to put groceries away & get organized for dinner.  Nick & family & Katrina will be over for dinner later.

Dinner: pork tenderloin, braised apples& onions, broccoli & roasted garlic parmesan rosemary potatoes. The remainder of the evening was taken up by more video games on the big screen.

Lights out: 12:08am.