Other Fall Happenings.

The October weather has continued to be absolutely beautiful. I babysat in Seattle the other morning and it was so pretty driving out as the sun was coming up. I do love being so close to Mount Rainier out here and I so enjoy watching how different it looks depending on the light and the time of day. I wish I had a good enough camera to catch the way the moonlight shines off of it on clear nights.

I have recently discovered this fun little market in Maple Valley though, unfortunately, I'm a little late as they'll be closing for the season this coming Sunday. Their prices are so good though and the apples I got there were super tasty! And only 59cents a pound. How's that for a good deal?

We finally bought the Zombie game -- Last Night on Earth. We were planning to spend the day in Seattle last Thursday playing board games at Blue Highway before a dinner reservation that wasn't until 6:30, but when we got to Blue Highway, they had the game playing area closed. They were getting ready for the auction they had that weekend and had board games covering all of the tables. We decided to go drink hot chocolate at Pete's and play cards but that only lasted about an hour. Then we caved and we had to go back and buy the game for ourselves and take it to a coffee shop. What a sneaky way to get business!

We finished the day with dinner at the Pink Door. It's always fun to try new restaurants and particularly fun to go on a date that's worthy of some dressier clothes. How bad is it that this purple outfit I wore is a "new" outfit and has never been worn but it's been hanging in my closet since two Christmases ago? Pretty bad.

Thursdays that Steven works seem to be my "friend days", or at least that's the trend so far. Yesterday I drove into Seattle and enjoyed coffee with Lena over a game of Ticket to Ride at Blue Highway and then met up with Hilde and her housemates for dinner followed by the Ingrid Michaelson concert at the Showbox SoDo. Lucky for me, Lena and Kira were also on their way to the concert so I got to meet up with them there as well.

After finding a FREE parking spot we noticed that they still hadn't opened the doors to the concert yet and there was a huge line outside to get in... so we made a quick stop in Krispy Kremes instead of standing in the cold. Yum! And yes, it's true, the only reason I chose that particular doughnut was because of how it was decorated.

One of my favorite moments of the evening was as we were walking into the Showbox. There was a guy walking up and down the line telling everyone to have their bags out and open to be checked before we walked in. He was telling us to make sure that we didn't have any food with us "...no banana chips, no chocolate bars, it's not coming in here!" I started laughing because I knew Lena had had banana chips in her purse when I was hanging out with her earlier and she must have been the reason he made that reference. Then I got up there and held my gigantic hand bag open and moved my scarf out of the way so the security man could check it out. The guy was poking around with his flashlight and then just stopped with this super confused look on his face... and pulled out a can of Progresso soup. This I found particularly hysterical but probably mostly because I was rather embarrassed about it. I explained that I had taken it to babysitting to eat for dinner but had just forgotten about it and left it in my purse and that he could have it if he wanted it. He slowly dropped it back into my bag and said "Please don't eat that in there." and I walked in still giggling.

The Guggenheim Grotto opened for Ingrid, they're from Dublin, which means they have cool accents. They're pretty talented too :)

I just love Hilde :)

Ingrid was very entertaining. She's funny and silly and witty her music is quite fantastic. She puts on a really great show and I hope to see her in concert again. Though next time I'll make a point of learning more of her songs first. I always like concerts better when I can sing along.

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And in case you happened to notice, yes, I did get a haircut yesterday. (Before picture below). I really liked it the length that it was but it's so fun to have short hair again and I think it's quite cute. But I'm already planning to grow it out again :)