BREAKFAST FOR MOM

Yesterday morning Mimi said that she was going to make breakfast for us before we were to start our day. After my shower I heard Mimi call out to me to come down to breakfast. She had fixed us Lucky Charm cereal with milk and a glass of water. Bless her little heart. ;-)

THE RUCKER'S HOUSE

When the party was over at Chuck E. Cheese, Mimi went home with Blake, Zoe and the rest of the gang. She was absolutely in 7th heaven. On the other hand, it was time for this party animal to head over to another party at the Historical Rucker's House up in Everett. Picked up dad from his office on the way of course. Apparently the Rucker family is a Seattle pioneer family and have a mansion up on the hill overlooking the Puget Sound. Along with dad's arcitect company was the construction crew that is working on a new tower for the Providence Hospital up in Everett. They just finished with the design and were celebrating with a wine tasting party and appetizers that go along with the wine. I had to take a picture of the Larb Kai menu especially for Princess Teri. I hear that she makes a out of this world Larb Kai and I have never heard of it or tasted it before last night. It was really delicious and goes well with the Reisling. I think that I may have had 3 or 4 little servings. I should have taken a picture of the Larb Kai itself. Oh well I guess I had a brain fart. They put a biteful of Larb Kai on the spoons that you eat the Chinese soup with. Very clever. Starting soon along with a couple of other contractors, dad will be making the 120 mile round trip to work everyday. Poor guy. I guess that is part of the job though.

CHUCK E. CHEESE'S

At the end of this month, February 28th to be exact is Blake's 6th birthday. Since he and his family will be down in Southern California doing the Disneyland and Legoland thing, we celebrated his birthday yesterday at Chuck E. Cheese. All of the kids had a blast. You know they say that at least somewhere in the world there is someone who looks like you? Well imgine my surprise when I saw this little girl who was not part of our party but just happened to be there with her family. She looks so much like how our Mimi looked a couple of years ago that I just had to take a picture of her and Mimi together. She too is 6 years old.

DAYTIME ROAD TRIP

Since dad had some time today, I thought it would be a great idea if we went and had lunch with him at the Westlake shopping mall in downtown Seattle. Of course no trip to downtown Seattle is complete without a ride on the monorail for all of us train lovers. Mimi had my camera with her in the backseat on our way up to Seattle and unbeknownst to me she took a gazillion pictures of herself and the landscape. Thank goodness for digital cameras. I was able to erase a lot of them but unfortunately she ran my battery down too so now it is re-charging. I must also make mention that although it was quite cold outside, it was magnificently clear and gorgeous! On the way home we saw the snow capped Olympic mountains and the Cascades on the other. Then there was Mt. Baker on the left and Mt Rainier on the right. Another beautiful ending to a beautiful day.

GIRLS JUST WANNA HAVE FUN......

Tonight Ling Ling and her mom May came over for a visit. When the two of them get together it is like TNT. They were making such a ruckus upstairs that the house started to shake a little. I asked Mimi what they were doing to which she replied "we're just having some fun!"

AT THE PARK

Since both Mimi and Spencer are early risers, we were able to leave for the museum at 9:00 this morning without any problem. It was great because we kept beating the crowds. There was absolutely no traffic on the way there. Then when we got to the museum it was not crowded until it was time to leave. Michelle then drove us to Chinatown for dim sum at Ocean Seafood right across the street from Uwajimaya and we beat the lunch crowd. The food was pretty good too. We then had a little extra time before heading home so over to Uwajimaya it was. Mom did a little grocery shopping and Mimi and Spencer hung out at the bookstore which is Mimi's favorite place to go. We arrived home around 3:00 in the afternoon and it was much too gorgeous outside so of course we had to go over to the park. By this time Spencer had already gone home with his mom and Mimi played with Erin and Liam. Butch who had been cooped up all day came with us too. Tomorrow after her gymnastic class, we are planning to have lunch with dad. So I am thinking about parking at the Space Needle where the parking is only $7.00 and taking the monorail over to the shopping center for lunch in the food court. We'll see what happens but that is the plan for now.

MIMI'S CAFE

In the back of the museum there is a place dedicated to the Asian countries such as the Phillipines and Japan. Here Spencer and Mimi have their own sushi shop. There is also a replica of a small but typical Japanese home which kind of reminded me of my Aunt's home in Japan.