Thursday, April 16, 2015

48th birthday

I realized that I do not recall what I did last year for my birthday!  doh!

This year was a bit rushed since we were in Silverdale all weekend for Maddies wedding.

I went in to work as usual, had a meeting at 10.  The meeting got rescheduled for 11:30.  Half way through the meeting I saw a facebook post from Falafel Salam that their product was going fast!   I worried if I would get there in time for my birthday Falafel.   The meeting ended and I ran to my favorite food truck.  I made it!  I had my Falafel!  It was spectacular!

That evening, I had proposed going to Blue Moon burger for a blackbean burger.  But after eating the Falafel for lunch, I didn't really want a burger.   So, we skipped that part and went to El Chubacabra.

Mike was there, we had a fun time talking to Mike more than we ever have.    As it was time to leave, I asked Andrew for a birthday shot of Tequila.  He delivered!  It was a nice tequila.

We went home and ordered a pizza from Olympic Pizza since they were so kind as to send us a menu in the mail.   The pizza was ok.  Not great but it worked.

So that was my birthday.  I attempted to play Civ V but I lost a crucial member to barbarians so I just shut it off.

Bronwen got me a card from the WAC.  She really wanted to take me out to dinner, but I didnt want that.  I just wanted to stay local.

In the next week or so, we will go over to Grandma's for breakfast to celebrate my and moms birthday.

Monday, April 13, 2015

Maddies Wedding!

My niece Maddie married her fiance Mitch in a ceremony in Poulsbo.   It was a great event which started for me on Friday. 

Bronwen and I left after I got off work on Friday.  We went to the Silverdale Beach Hotel and checked in to our room.    We met up with Cap, Joyce, Ron and Kim shortly after we checked in.  Cap, B and I went over to Hojacks for a beer before dinner at the Yacht Club Broiler.

We arrived to join Dan, Tony,  Mike and my mom for  dinner.  It was a fun dinner, we all switched seats occaisionaly to chat with other members of the family.  After dinner, Cap and I ventered back out to Hopjacks for nightcap.

I didn't sleep at all even with a nightcap.  I left around 8 am Saturday and picked up Kelsey.  We went bacl to the hotel and met everyone for breakfast.   After Breakfast, Ron, Kim and Joyce went to Poulsbo to sightsee.  Bronwen had an errand to run so we stayed behind with Cap.  Cap had to run an errand so we walked Caps dog, Jack for a while.

We left for the wedding that afternoon.  Parked at the 12 trees business park, and waited for the late running, very busy shuttle to take us to the venue.

When we arrived, we were treated to the bar, already open, along with many games, pinball, shuffleboard, and foosball.

The wedding was outside under a tent.  The theme of the wedding was light and fun. Each read their vows, made by them.  Maddies vows was to buy a lot of shoes!   It was pretty humoour event.

The ceremony was short.  After the ceremony we all chatted and visited with those we don't see very often.
Dinner was served, bbq, no veg option.. I had potato salad!   We all wondered where the salad was?   Later we found uot, it was at Cristas house!  She had forgot it.   Oh well, that was really the only issue, and not a big one either.  Everything went really well, despite being cold.    Cake was a huge table covered in doughnuts!  Guests were encouraged to grab a custom wedding bag and take one home.

After the wedding we went back to the Hotel.  We were all ready for a snack, so B, Kelsey, Cap and I went back to Hopjacks for a late snack.

the next am, we had brunch at Cristas. 






Weekend with Kelsey

It's been a while since she came over for the night so I was thrilled when Kelsey asked me to take her to her horseback riding lesson then take her back to my house for the night.  I alreayd had friday off, so it was perfect timing.

We had a fun weekend. Bronwen and I already had Friday am plans to try Flapjacks restaurant in Burien again, so  having Kelsey along was even better.  

After breakfast, Bronwen had to go to Southcenter so we did our own thing.  We went to St Vincents for some thrift shoppig then we went to the Museum of Flight.   After that, we came home and walked down the beach to have dinner at the new Blue Moon burger place.

After dinner we stopped at Top Pot dougnuts for desssert that no one had room for!

Kelsey and I went to see Grandma on Saturday and then I took her home.  Great weekend.