Driver's Ed

Ernie's Uncle Sam was still in town visiting us.

I don't remember what the deal was with this hat. It was no one's birthday.

We showed Sam one of our favorites: Tot Lot Park. Unfortunately we experienced a serious car accident.

The height of baby luxury is being read to while riding in a stroller.

We had some chowder and fried fish at Ivar's for dinner.

Sam experience the joy of trying to brush the teeth of a wiggly worm man.

It was a good day.

Dumplings and Tell-Tale Hearts

Brother Sam was in town so we took him to one of our favorites: Din Tai Fung!

They expanded into a new spot and it looks pretty baller.

I've always hated nigori sake but I think this was the moment I finally decided to memorize the name so that I would never accidentally order it or have to drink it ever again. It's milky, sweet, has rice solids in it... it feels like someone gave up midway through the process of making a non-crap sake and just bottled it to trick me.

We took a break on the way to the car to check out the arcade.

Later we handed off Ern and headed to the Edgar Allan Poe Speakeasy event at the Egyptian Theatre in Seattle.

The deal was they handed you a cocktail then did a live rendition of a Poe story. It was fun.

My favorite was "The Masque of the Red Death." Spooky.

 

Vampire Weekend on a Work Day

Ern did some important feather exploration at school. It's good to know the possible weaknesses of birds. You never know when one might strike.

Lydia and I visited the historic Climate Pledge Arena for the Seattle installment of the Vampire Weekend "Only God Was Above Us" Tour.  

Vampire Weekend is now officially the only musical act that I've seen live twice. What an honor.

Apparently now I'm an old person because the last time I saw them was in 2010! My friend Seago introduced me to them. What a guy.

At the end of the show instead of doing a normal encore they took audience requests for just random songs. Not random Vampire Weekend songs. Literally any random ass song someone could come up with. I've never seen anything like it. Understandably they didn't really know a lot of these songs and did a not great job. I understand that they are probably trying to mix things up but I was a little disappointed they skipped some of their own stuff that I was hoping for. I'm a big fan of "Giving Up the Gun" for example. I'll get over it somehow. It was a great show otherwise. Dare I go for three times?