Redmond Dining

We tried a new place for lunch today: Sages Restaurant in Redmond. It was fine.

Ernie was doing a lot of flirting with people at a nearby table.

Nearby Redmond Library was having a story time.

I'm not used to having normal people for landlords. We told them we were having an issue with standing water in one the tubs and they responded by... completely redoing both showers.

Edible and Inedible Fishes

Tickets to area attractions like the Seattle Aquarium are often pretty expensive, especially compared to the free or nearly free stuff back in St. Louis. So we often go for the year long membership option and beat the hell out of it before switching to the next thing.

For lunch we went to what is one of my favorite places in Seattle: Ba Bar University Village. I feel a bit guilty because I always order the same couple of things at this point but I just have the perfect order dialed in, ok? I got the Lemongrass Rockfish this time. It comes with a side of side tomato tamarind soup. Perfection.

Chonky man

We took Ern to a baby furniture store and he was being so cute sitting on the various chairs that we narrowly avoided buying one.

Can't Stop the Feeling

Justin Timberlake came to town pretty close to Lydia's birthday so that was a done deal.

There was some intro DJ stuff for a while as we waited for the show to begin. I think watching a sign language interpreter do "Baby Got Back" was worth the price of admission alone.

This show went pretty hard. There was a lot of giant JT heads in different stages of... maybe like authoritarianism? Like if Big Brother from 1984 could sing and dance.

This giant video cube thing was a costar of the show.

There was nothing it couldn't do.

At one point it tried to drown JT.

We were on the far end of Climate Pledge BUT this multitalented phenom had a little secondary stage that was right up in our face. 

Then the video cube decided that Justin was an angry god emperor. I don't know what we did to anger him but he brought sexy back very aggressively at this point.

Lastly the video cube transformed into a flying carpet and whisked JT back to Olympus.

Normally this would be the end of my expert coverage of this event. But there's a bit of a prologue on this one. About a month and a half later JT got pulled over for alleged drunk driving. Some reporting on the incident:

"We're also told that the cop who pulled Timberlake over "was so young that he didn't even know" who the 10-time Grammy winner was.

"He didn't recognize him or his name," our insider says.

A second source adds, "Justin said under his breath, 'This is going to ruin the tour.' The cop replied, 'What tour?' Justin said, 'The world tour.''"

So of course anytime anything bad happened to either of us the next couple of weeks we would exclaim "this is going to ruin the tour".

Chandrila to Kirkland

I got my hands on one of the tie-in books that relate to the Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser experience we did at Disney World.

They did a really good job of capturing some of the magic of the real hotel. The elevator/shuttle ride from the ground to the ship was very well done in the real life version.

This I thought was cool because they tied in several adventures that Star Wars characters had on the ship. This in particular was especially cool. There's a lightsaber battle and they scratch the wall while they're fighting. At the real hotel, then, there was a big scratch on the wall from the fight. Disney did a really good job placing the location within the Star Wars universe and gave some extra depth and lore to hardcore people in the know.

I may have already mentioned but I was similarly excited by the book The Princess and the Scoundrel because there they mention Han scratching his and Leia's initials on a pipe in the engineering room and you could see that on the real ship as well. There were fun easter eggs waiting for the nerds which I appreciated.