artsy fartsy

What a day we had yesterday! After I returned home from the Women's conference after my shift in the nursery helping with crafts, Clyde wanted to take the family down town for a nice exploration of our Emerald City. We parked on the lovely Elm street and just walked. (Clyde also wanted some artsy fartsy photos for our collection. Since I didn't know about the photos, I didn't know to charge up our camera battery. Thank goodness for the photo taking ability on Clyde's cell.) We saw so many antique shops with some cool things, the tall buildings, some awesomely awesome downtown apartments and some hippie shops that Maylee would love. We kept walking to a square and saw some buddy's from church and didn't realize that there was an Hispanic Festival going on. I knew that the Highland Games were in town, but that wasn't supposed to start until 4pm. While @ the festival, the Wardlings ran through the fountain, pet a llama/alpaca, went inside a teepee, ate some banana italian ice, listened to some fancy music, and had a blast. On our way back to the van, we saw a yarn shop. I just had to go into it. The yarn is nicely, outrageously expensive, but it turned into a lesson on how to spin yarn. The shopkeepers gave each of the Wardlings a turn spinning some yarn. Fun! We parked by the perfect climbing tree, a magnolia. We just had to get in a climb before leaving down town. We were running late for a birthday party that Miss L was invited to, so we couldn't climb as much as we had wanted to. Miss L got to her party on time, we ate lunch at Moe's (thanks to 2 coupons) and then we saw Wolverine! No joke... X-Men's Wolverine. We circled the parking lot and asked if we could get a pix because nobody would believe that we saw Wolverine without photographic proof. We hit Costco, hit up some samples and then got Miss L. There she was up for her go cart race. So we watched her drive around the track. On the way home we stopped in @ REI, to check out some gear for the upcoming Pioneer trek that we are a Ma and Pa. We saw some friends there too.
Once we were home, we were beat. We had such the fun day exploring, seeing friends, going to a festival and meeting Wolverine! Most importantly is was spending the day together.