Reinforcements Have Arrived

Aunt Zoe and Grandma Linda came to visit baby Ernie.

But what they found instead was a one week old big boy.

Zoe made some cool greeting cards and stickers with Ern's chubby cheeks on them.

We decided Ernie needed some sea breeze so we took him out to West Seattle to visit Alki Beach Park. Wikipedia says that it "was the first public salt-water bathing beach on the west coast of the United States."

Ernie was only a week old and already was asking to go to his second bar. The guy is a machine.

The Good Society Brewery & Public House had some fun bottled beer that I needed to make my own.

Pizza boys! There was some sort of cool kid parent group there having a meeting and so there were kids everywhere. Maybe I can still be cool after all.

We stopped at Marination Ma Kai for some Hawaiian soul food. I went with the loco moco because I'm a real one.

West Seattle and Mt. Rainier's Return

Poor poor West Seattle. It's on a little peninsula right across from big kid Seattle but the bridge has been out since we got here.

We finally made the journey for a very important reason: a city wide garage sale.

We stopped at a well regarded Mexican food truck called Taqueria la Fondita in White Center, WA on the way back.

Most of the parts of the Seattle area that I commonly traverse have a dearth of Mexican food so this was nice.

I think we must be crazy people because after some garage sales and a nice Mexican lunch we said to ourselves "let's drive to Mt. Rainier and go hiking". Why the heck not.

We have been here once before but there was so much snow on the mountain that we couldn't really get around in order to do anything because all of the roads were blocked.

The break down of dead trees in Washington's parks fascinates me.

This fungus looked like a delicious dinner roll.