Eventful Saturday

This morning Karen and I woke up super early to attend the free Rick Steve seminar on Italy.  It was basically a sight-seeing slideshow, although she did offer some practical tips such as how to bypass the 2 hour lines at the Uffizi gallery.  Basically you calling ahead and reserve the ticket, and then just wave at all the silly people waiting in the insane line and walk straight up to the will-call.  There was quite a bit of good info in the seminar, although most of it can be found in Rick Steve’s Europe Through The Backdoor.  At the end, the man himself, who just returned from Italy, showed up and answered some questions.

After that we went to the Mac Store to buy Karen a new battery.  Karen has a Powerbook, and its battery life is exactly 5 minutes.  No more.  No less.  Yeah… a new battery is warranted.  Unfortunately Apple won’t sell them because it’s an older model, and Mac Store is sold out!  Okay, okay… internet here we come.  Selection at the expense of instant graification…

Being a hot day, we dropped by Starbucks for a Frappuchino before heading over to the Happyfish BBQ.  I didn’t realize the Starbucks cups are smaller than ever!  And I was complaining when they did their first downsizing.  At this rate, soon the Tall will be the size of a shot glass!

Now, can anyone tell me where this is?

You may be tempted to say Hawaii, but it’s actually Lincoln Park in West Seattle, where the Happyfish BBQ is!  Anyway, I don’t have a story today, but I’ll let the pictures speak for themselves.  Let’s start with Johnny handing Ben a piece of … whatever.

Some people were definitely experiencing some football action…

While others were playing the bouncy rock game…

Amazingly, Karen actually bounced 4 times, as we can sort of witness in this next picture. Yes that’s four, not three, although the last two are sort of compressed…

Of course, that’s after 53,847 attempts, but it’s still reason to celebrate.

Even Allen and Justine joined us, along with Madeline whose head was gripped like a basketball by Allen.  First he cradles her like a football, and now basketball.  What’s next?  I hope not soccer!

While we were at it, we took a few other shots…

And of course, Angela was nice enough to offer to take one for Karen and I…

Here’s a picture I had a harder time getting cooperation for, but we managed to pull it off.

After that, we decided to try finding some interesting pictures take, including balancing on a log…

Or a rock…

Then we looked for … creative shots…

So that’s pretty much the Happyfish BBQ.  Okay, so there were more people at the BBQ, but this is a blog, not a picture gallery!  Keeping things interesting is the key, so only pictures that fit with my blog entry make it here.  Okay, time to check for sunburns and go to sleep!