What a lovely social weekend.
Jun. 13th, 2011 07:57 amThis weekend I was busy busy busy!
Friday night, and I took in the latest Pirates movie. Enjoyed it a fair bit even though it didn't do well, or so I read, in the eyes of the critics. Penelope Cruz as an addition never hurts too much. I'm kinda fond of that gorgeous diminutive Spaniard. :-)
Saturday morning, I got the opportunity to walk my first labyrinth.![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
solcita and I trekked to the one at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Mercer Island. I don't know much about them in terms of how to describe it meaningfully, but what I did like about it was the fact that the neighborhood is fairly quiet, and it made the experience really nice. I'll have to walk a few more to come up with a meaningful opinion, but I enjoyed the opportunity to slow everything down and focus.
The rest of the morning was spent out at the Ballard Locks. I had never been, and S was happy to join me for the tour. It is interesting to me to take in some of the local history. Part of me is still accustomed to taking New Mexico history for granted, and I forget how much of the local history I still don't know. How much things have changed. How things were founded and such. We also spent a lot of time drooling on the sailboats that locked back and forth and day dreaming about spending time on one at sea.
We lunched at Cafe Mox, which, for those of you who don't yet know it, is a small cafe next to what I think is one of the coolest card/table game stores around called Card Kingdom! Lots and lots and lots of games and neat stuff, and the cafe has really good food.
After shuttling S home, I spent some down time reading at Cafe Vita on the Hill in anticipation of Horizon Oasis' last gnostic mass at their old space. C was deaconing. That was nice too, and we spent a lot of time socializing afterwards which is something I've really needed. We packed up a few last things and prepped the mass equipment for the move.
Amid all this,peacerebel was taking in the new dueling piano bar in Bellevue Square with her family. I hear it is very cool and I'll have to drag her back there soon!
Sunday, C and I headed over to the temple again to help with the move. We managed to get things shuffled fairly quickly, and broke for lunch at a place nearby to the new place called Loredos. Interesting place. Seems to cater to a young crowd, if the music playing was any indication. We walked into what must have been a 80's-90's hip-hop revival which later mutated other places. I was amused. Food was pretty good, though for as slow as they were that day, our dishes did take a long time to come out. When they serve you large bowls of chips for the salsa as appetizers before the meals arrive, and you start to make it to the bottom of the bowl, that's usually a bad sign. EH... We'll see how it goes.
After lunch, and pretty much spent, we headed home and relaxed for the remainder of the evening. Caught about the first hour of the Tony awards and kinda gave up after that. Not sure if it was just fuzzy brain, or just exhaustion from the weekend, but I decided to spend more time reading and getting to bed relatively early.
Overall, very productive out and about, and got to see people I don't get to see very often. Body is sore, soul is happy. :-)
Friday night, and I took in the latest Pirates movie. Enjoyed it a fair bit even though it didn't do well, or so I read, in the eyes of the critics. Penelope Cruz as an addition never hurts too much. I'm kinda fond of that gorgeous diminutive Spaniard. :-)
Saturday morning, I got the opportunity to walk my first labyrinth.
solcita and I trekked to the one at Emmanuel Episcopal Church on Mercer Island. I don't know much about them in terms of how to describe it meaningfully, but what I did like about it was the fact that the neighborhood is fairly quiet, and it made the experience really nice. I'll have to walk a few more to come up with a meaningful opinion, but I enjoyed the opportunity to slow everything down and focus. The rest of the morning was spent out at the Ballard Locks. I had never been, and S was happy to join me for the tour. It is interesting to me to take in some of the local history. Part of me is still accustomed to taking New Mexico history for granted, and I forget how much of the local history I still don't know. How much things have changed. How things were founded and such. We also spent a lot of time drooling on the sailboats that locked back and forth and day dreaming about spending time on one at sea.
We lunched at Cafe Mox, which, for those of you who don't yet know it, is a small cafe next to what I think is one of the coolest card/table game stores around called Card Kingdom! Lots and lots and lots of games and neat stuff, and the cafe has really good food.
After shuttling S home, I spent some down time reading at Cafe Vita on the Hill in anticipation of Horizon Oasis' last gnostic mass at their old space. C was deaconing. That was nice too, and we spent a lot of time socializing afterwards which is something I've really needed. We packed up a few last things and prepped the mass equipment for the move.
Amid all this,
peacerebel was taking in the new dueling piano bar in Bellevue Square with her family. I hear it is very cool and I'll have to drag her back there soon!Sunday, C and I headed over to the temple again to help with the move. We managed to get things shuffled fairly quickly, and broke for lunch at a place nearby to the new place called Loredos. Interesting place. Seems to cater to a young crowd, if the music playing was any indication. We walked into what must have been a 80's-90's hip-hop revival which later mutated other places. I was amused. Food was pretty good, though for as slow as they were that day, our dishes did take a long time to come out. When they serve you large bowls of chips for the salsa as appetizers before the meals arrive, and you start to make it to the bottom of the bowl, that's usually a bad sign. EH... We'll see how it goes.
After lunch, and pretty much spent, we headed home and relaxed for the remainder of the evening. Caught about the first hour of the Tony awards and kinda gave up after that. Not sure if it was just fuzzy brain, or just exhaustion from the weekend, but I decided to spend more time reading and getting to bed relatively early.
Overall, very productive out and about, and got to see people I don't get to see very often. Body is sore, soul is happy. :-)