My Travels: A Day in Kirkland, WA

Nice array of Starbuck mugs. I have been to all of these places.

Nathan took over the living room. Odd decorations above the fireplace. Apparently they are fishing rod cases.

The patio. I am sure that it will be too cold to enjoy it.

What a day today has been. Definitely different than what was planned. We were going to head over to Madeline and Roman's around 8 am-ish and then head off to the zoo. We were ready to head out at 8:30 am and went to go get our car, only to find out that the car fob to open the garage door also is needed to get into the garage. We had left the fob in the car since we would only need it to open the garage door (we thought). ARGH!!!! When we left the car last night if we would have used the elevator we would have realized that we needed the fob but we had used the stairs. George spent a lot of time on the phone trying to track down a way to get a fob or someone ... anyone who could let us into the garage. We even stood by the elevator looking pitiful but the one person going down said that it was against the rules. Finally, we decided just to walk over to M & R's. Once there we came up with a new plan. They had had a bad night with Ivan being sick. Everyone else was fine.

New plan: We bundled up and walked to the the Kirkland library

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A lot of sculptures around

Christmas "ornaments"

The Gossips

Kirkland has a very nice library

Madeline picked out some books for Ivan.

Then we walked on down to the lake. I think that it is called Lake Washington.

We passed an art gallery which had a showing of the Art of Dr Seuss. We went in.

That was fun.

Lake Washington

The ducks let me get pretty close.

I did not bring quite enough warm clothes or our morning outing, so I was glad to stop for lunch. We went to Homegrown for lunch. It is a place where you order at a computer and then they call out when the order is ready. It took us a while to figure that out. Saying, Bonjour, didn't seem to get the staff's attention. Though they did point us to the computer.

I had the ham, pear and brie sandwich and tomato bisque. That hit the spot.

On the way back to Madeline and Roman's place we stopped at a PCC Community Market (Puget's Consumer Coop). We bought some cashews so that we could make rosemary roasted cashews.

Once back the apartment, George finally got a fob response. The house cleaner would meet us at our apartment to get us into the garage so that we could get our fob. So we had a little time. We made the rosemary cashews. They were a hit. Then we played a few rounds of Swoop. Then we walked to our apartment to wait for the housecleaner.

At 3:30 we got a text from the housecleaner saying to meet her out front. She got a key fob and let George get into the elevator, so that he could go get the fob from our car. Actually that is not quite true, she went into one of her client's apartments and borrowed a fob. Whatever. At least it worked. Whew!!

We drove over to M & R's. I brought an extra layer this time because we were going to go to the Garden of Lights at the Botanical Gardens. We headed out for our 5:30 pm reservation.