weekend

Today we walked to Fremont to take a tour of the Fremont Brewery and try one of their hyper-seasonal fresh hopped beers. We stopped at Milstead & Co. afterward, then the Fremont Vintage Mall which contained wonderful treasures as always.
Lastly, Margot gets free reign of the downstairs bedroom/other rooms and the office most of the time now thanks to the cat gate we put up. We found her sleeping like that in the office the other day. I'm very happy she's a hilarious sleeper, that is a nice bonus in a cat.

November so far

Some photos from November so far.

Fremont Solstice Fair

In June we wandered over to catch the end of the Fremont Solstice Fair, which includes a locally famous parade that most famously includes naked, body-painted bicyclists, among other things. The parade starts in Fremont and ends in Gas Works Park. We walked to the park to witness the remainder of some partying, dancing, brass band playing, etc. We then walked home during a really nice sunset. Since we missed the actual parade, we only saw one naked bicyclist. No photo available.





At the "Art Car" show.



At Gas Works Park.





There is a brass band that played their way down the hill and onto a raft, then out into the lake, in the right side of the image.





Solstice Parade float graveyard.





Sunset over the ship canal, as seen from the Fremont Bridge.



Dustin doing the "Wes Anderson point."

along the ship canal

Pictures from along the ship canal near Fremont, including interesting boats, signs, and a sleeping duck. The weather has become progressively clearer lately, so you can finally see Mt. Rainier again. It's peeking out in the last photo above.

walking to the Fremont Brewery

Last Sunday we walked across the Fremont Bridge and east a little ways to the Fremont Brewery, an excellent local brewery we really like. The path winds down and under the Aurora Bridge, a high arch bridge built to allow huge ships through the ship canal without having to raise up like the Fremont and Ballard bridges. As we traveled along the canal we saw a purple houseboat, and a pretty great mural done by a 5th grade class several years ago showing all kinds of animals riding bikes around Seattle (including a fish).

Gas Works Park

This Sunday the weather was really beautiful if still a little chilly. We checked out the Fremont Sunday Market as is our standard weekly habit, and then wandered to the Fremont Brewery to try a few more of their beers. After that we headed to Gas Works Park, a public park on the site of the former Seattle Gas Light Company gasification plant that's located on the north shore of Lake Union. It contains remnants of the sole remaining coal gasification plant in the US. The plant itself operated from 1906 to 1956, then was purchased by the city in 1962 and opened as a public park in 1975. The park's designer, Richard Haag, won the "American Society of Landscape Architects Presidents Award of Design Excellence" for the project. Check out an aerial view of the park here.
The last image is of the Fremont Bridge, our handy portal into Fremont from Queen Anne.

Birthday

A few pictures from today --
The weather was cold and rainy (a bummer after last weekend's sunny 65 degree days), so the Fremont Sunday Market was pretty empty when we went. We wandered there briefly before walking over to the Fremont Brewery, which for some reason we haven't yet visited. We had a flight of 10 of their beers, most of which were excellent. I have no idea why this didn't occur to us before, I think we were under the impression they didn't have a pub area or something...
For an early dinner we went to Toulouse Petit, an awesome Cajun-influenced place with a very ornate interior (lots of paneled glass, tile work, intricate wood inlay on the tables, etc.). Currently relaxing at home watching The Twilight Zone. Overall a good day to turn 29.