Bellevue Sunset

One of my favorite parts of Ernie's daycare is that it's a place for him to make a huge mess that isn't my house.

I would estimate that we go to 7 playgrounds on average a day.

Bellevue Downtown Park treated us to a ravaging sunset today.

We had a nice dinner at Hokkaido Ramen Santouka Bellevue.

We're big edamame fans.

Ern likes a good airplane ride on the way to his lil bed.

Candy Bugs and Ukrainian Hugs

We did some coloring of Schnucks characters. It's funny I don't know how many times if ever Ernie has even been to Schnucks.

We checked out the NW Ukrainian International Festival at Bellevue Downtown Park. I was surprised what a huge number of people showed up. It's by far the biggest event I've ever seen there.

I bought some lemonade from a kid saving up to buy an ebike.

We like to pop in to Fran's Chocolates for free samples but this time I fell right into their trap.

They were doing a Coraline movie tie in! For a movie that came out in 2009!

There's a scene where they eat bugs and I bought an extremely expensive box of chocolates made to look like said bugs. I'm not proud of what I've done.

I scored free tickets to Dane Cook at the Paramount Theatre. It's what I do.

Hokkaido Hunger

Lydia likes to have Ernie help her cook which is fun and cute. It does freak me out a little bit when he's close to hot things on the stove, though.

I have fond memories of feeding the ducks stale bread but I feel like the current story is that you aren't supposed to do that anymore. Sad.

We're so spoiled out here. "At Indigo Cow, we are proud to introduce the tasty and time-honored tradition of Hokkaido dairy to Seattle with the first ice cream shop in America to make soft-serve ice cream with milk from Hokkaido."

We're also spoiled for Ramen joints. I think St. Louis had like two and they were bad.

This time we tried out Hokkaido Ramen Santouka Bellevue. It was good but it's going to be hard for anyone to tear me away from my beloved Kizuki Ramen & Izakaya.

Ramen then Some Horsin Around

We packed this Sunday full of all kinds of diversions.

Today for lunch we popped over to the Bellevue branch of Hokkaido Ramen Santouka.

Ernie was having a time just playing with the menu.

The food at this restaurant is good and they have very bitable tables.

Bellevue Downtown Park

Nana’s Green Tea

I've been wanting Ernie to try this horse and potatoes baby food we picked up in Italy. I tried it with him. It was not great.

Pairing that with some Dom Pérignon really added the giddyup that the meal needed.