Mother's Day 2018

I was patiently waiting to hear a plan for Mother' Day.  Usually Crista likes to just chill at her house but sometimes we take Mom out for Brunch.  This year, it's Maddies first Mother's Day, so who knows what is going to happen!

Mom calls me early in teh week, says no plans.  She seemed a bit bothered by it, so I quickly called Anthony's and made a reservation for four.  I assumed Crista would not want to go.

A few days later, Crista tells me the plan.  Snacks at her house,  11-12 am.  Well, my reservation is for 10 am. I change it but I can only move it to 10:30. Not sure how this is better.

Mom calls me, tells me Crista is upset.  So I said it's her Mothers day. We can cancel and just hang out at Cristas.   We decide to decide in the am.

We get to Cristas and have our snacks. I got to see Mavrik for  the second time.   Mom wanted to go to Anthony's so she and I and James went.

Oh and I brought her some of the smoked salmon jerky from Seattle fish guys

We had a nice, hot brunch with the sun shining on us.

One year anniversary!

We made it a whole year! :)

We had all kinds of great plans, going to Alki,  eating at Canliss.. we did neither.


We did go to Dim-sum on Saturday!  it was awesome as usual. We had a few beers at the bowling alley,  taking a break from our beer break.   We ate at The Chelan on Sunday.    Bought a whole bunch of yummy seafood from Seattle Fish Guys.

As for presents.   The First Anniversary is Paper.   Paper?

I read that clocks are a good gift, I had a few picked out on Amazon.   B got me a book!  Made of paper!  brilliant!

I came up with a good idea at the last minute.  We walked over  and took the bus up the hill to the California ave.  We went to the Poggie Tavern and played pull tabs!  Paper!  We lost $40 bucks.. :(..

On the way home, we stopped in the gas station and picked up an extra beer.  I decided to take anotehr change and bought some scratchers.  We won!  $10 ahead on scratchers at least...

Seaside Oregon

B has been working a lot, getting ready to change jobs.  We planned a getaway.

Back to Seaside!

This time I chose a different place, closer to the main drag. We stayed at the  Seaside Oceanfront Inn. The room was not very big, and kinda funky. We could hear the water running through the pipes.  Odd place.   The view was nice but no deck.  It wasn't too big a deal because it wasn't very warm.

We had some really bad Chinese food the first night but did have some better food on the second day.

We didn't do much except eat and drink and shop.  I ran into my old co worker,  Steve Zaro, at the outlet mall and then again that night in downtown Seaside.    We really liked our old place better and just were unable to recreate the great time we had last year...  still great to get away though!