Last Saturday we spent the day bumming around Seattle. We went downtown for an IMAX movie about Egyptian pyramids. And we went on a cool roller-coaster ride. Then there was a neighborhood event that was pretty fun with sno-cones and kids’ games. We were kind of bored so we kept looking for things to do.

Last Monday was Labor Day. Elisa and I went down to Tacoma to see the Point Defiance zoo. Tara went with us and Elisa’s grandma Sophie too. The snow fox was one of the really cool looking animals but we only got a picture of its behind. Elisa also got a picture of me next to a retreating whale. National Geographic we are not. Elisa and I have a dahlia garden in the back, and there is a really big rose and dahlia garden down there. Dahlias are big flowers and kind of otherworldly looking. I think they look like fireworks. We got some good pictures from that. (The dahlias don’t move as fast as the whales).

Elisa spent most of Thursday at the temple. It was the stake fill-the-temple day. I don’t have that kind of stamina, by the way.

On Thursday evening we went to a park in Bellevue and ended up people-watching for awhile. Bellevue is entertaining. There was a club of tons of little ugly dogs that all get together every night at the same time. It’s like a support group for yappy dog owners. We also watched a group of kids lose a balloon in a tree, and then lots of people walking over to help them get it down with shoes, coats, Frisbees, etc. Sometimes we are really easy to entertain.

Last night when I was going to bed, Elisa turned to me in her sleep and said, “That’s a really good idea.” I said, “You have really good ideas too, honey…. What idea?” She said, “Sleeeeeep!”