Santas Doing Too Much

Today we took Big Ern to the Seattle Aquarium to see Diving Santa.

He was understandably a bit weirded out. Ernie doesn't meet a lot of underwater people.

We had a little lunch at Premier Meat Pies nearby on the pier.

At Zoe's place we did a little prepartying and got our Santa suits on for Seattle SantaCon. Miriam helped me get these boot cover things over my shoes. So nice of her.

It was a lot of fun bar crawling around Pioneer Square. I had a sack full of candy canes and I had a good time passing them out to strangers.

My relationship with Xtadium is funny because I have never, nor likely will ever, enter this club dressed like a normal person.

Sometimes with these bar crawls I wonder what the value add is, like could I just go to the same bars without paying to be officially part of the thing. This one at least had a photographer that got a few good shots of us.

Totem Lake Reindeer

Ern watched a Christmas classic today... one of the Home Alones?

I'm at the twilight of any scrap of remaining Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser content and getting pretty desperate.

LEGO STAR WARS: Summer Vacation isn't usually the sort of thing I would watch but it had some scenes aboard the Starcruiser so I had to check it out. The atrium area looked fairly faithful to the real one.

Sadly there were no droid bartenders in the Sublight Lounge when I was there.

Somewhere along the line I developed the habit where when I’m about to read Ernie a book I read the title then instead of the actual author I will say “by Ernie J Wernie”. Today he said “Wernie” at the same time as I did. It was fun.

Tolls are pretty serious in this fancy pants metro area.

Totem Lake had some Christmas events. Today it was a reindeer viewing.

 

Above Snowflake Lane

Tonight we watched the Snowflake Lane Christmas parade from a different vantage point. I think it was through Forum Social House but they provide hot cocoa and you get to watch the festivities from their balcony. I thought it was a hit. One of the girls in Ernie's daycare class happened to be there too so that was fun for him to hang out with her a little.

 

Kissabels

I wrapped up my first Wenatchee business trip today.

It's funny you can be doing a normal thing like driving your car to work but everything seems much more profound with a giant mountain range staring down at you. 

I'm very impressed by these Kissabel apples with the red flesh.

I had one last lunch with my boss then headed back over the mountains.

I brought some Kissabels home for my kissable family.

One advantage of coming home after being gone a few days is we could then catch up on our Italian cookie Advent calendar.