Le weekend

Finally, there were two days of summer that could be described as warm and they fell on Saturday and Sunday. Great fun! Although it seems to have made both the kids more tired than usual. We took the bike trailer to a lovely neighborhood music festival. The kids enjoyed snow cones but stayed in the shade most of the time (true seattleites).

Ryan and Jack built a suspension bridge out of the IKEA train set parts during Sonia's nap.

Jack is honing his photography skills but is still not quite getting the idea of the view finder.

I got to go on a run and see this cool view of a rower going through the Montlake cut (not sure if you can see the rower but it was early in the morning and so quiet I could hear his oars going in and out of the water)

Finally, I found out the identity of that weird ball in the sound. From my professional photographer friend's blog:

It’s the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Sea-Based X-band Radar vessel (SBX for short), designed to identify and track missiles in flight. Built by Boeing in Texas and dedicated in 2005, it’s one of a kind and huge: 240 feet wide, 390 feet long and 280 feet high when measured from its keel to the top of the radar dome. Resting on a semi-submersible oil drilling platform, it has two hulls and is capable of self-propulsion.

This is her photo (from Urban Glimpses)