Saturday, May 25, 2024

Portland Sips

The four of us drove down to Portland, Oregon for adventures. I wish I could say "it was not to collect 400 more stamps in our McMenamins passports" but I think we all know that was the case.








We drove down what looks to be interstate 6.



Ernie probably likes staying in Airbnbs more than any of us. There's a bunch of new things to break and new rooms to crawl around in.





Calculating all the messes he could make with the contents of these cabinets.











Portland has a good beer scene so I check out a liquor store to sample the goods. They were selling the elusive 40oz bottles of beer. Last month for my 40th birthday party I was looking everywhere for these but failed. I felt obligated to buy one despite its late appearance.





Some nerd Youtuber did a negative review of Galactic Starcruiser. The experience is obviously now dead so her criticisms are mostly moot but it was still interesting to see the hours long account of her time there and other peoples' reactions to it. I think since our voyage was the second to last it was full of insiders, so I did feel like of left out at times. It was nice to see that others had a similar experience. It also made me wonder if its ending, though tragic, spared it from getting worse in terms of insider entrenchment. When we were there it was obvious that many of the guests were somehow already best friends with the actors.

Thursday, May 23, 2024

An Ordinary Day

Nothing that out of the ordinary happened today. Ernie was being cute.














Sometimes we like to play with the toys at Target but sadly we can't take them home because we want the other kids to have a turn.









The Heroes of the Halcyon podcast is one of the last little whimpers of content available that relates to the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. It's a few of superfans yapping to other superfans.

Wednesday, May 22, 2024

Madness

We scored a couple of free tickets to see British ska band Madness at WaMu Theatre. I like their singles "Our House" and "House of Fun".


I think may have also been my first opportunity to check out the venue, which was fun.









Madness like to wear fez caps and other distinctive things on their noggins.













A nice feature of this venue is that there were Seattle dog technicians waiting for me right outside the door.

Tuesday, May 21, 2024

Urban Exploring

Closing the bathroom door is no longer the tamperproof security system it once was.




Monday, May 20, 2024

Best State Park Ever

A fun thing about having a baby is any junk should-be-trash object you have laying around is an amazing opportunity for exploration for them.





Lydia's gotten really good at single-handedly strapping Ern onto her own back.







We took a stroll around what I am going to proclaim best state park ever: St Edward State Park. Every time I'm at a park I ask passersby: "where's the bar in this joint?" They usually give me dirty looks but in this instance the answer is clear:



inside the abandoned Catholic seminary, of course!















They have a large playground too.







Some drinks were drank.





Ern still had enough energy to organize the kitchen.