For Christmas, the girls received Amtrak tickets to Seattle. We went up and had two nights visiting with Anson and Alder, and what a blast we had!
Inspired by another Christmas gift (the book Atlas Obscura, which sprang whole from the forehead of the website of the same name), we visited the Fremont Troll. We took the bus to get there, getting off at the Troll Avenue stop.
We also did a lot of hanging out at the apartment. Anson and Alder put together a treasure hunt for the girls (and the treasure was a jar of coins with a few bills at the bottom, found in their mailbox after the girls had found the key to the mailbox). Anson and Alder also gave the girls a microphone and a small amplifier, which we all had a lot of fun singing into. (In fact, after we got back to Portland, pretty much the first thing we did was go to Aaron and Wendy's for a New Year's Eve party -- and we took the mic and amp, and it was awesome!)
What a great time we had. Thanks, Anson and Alder!
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| Anson and Alder's apartment is a bit cave-like, which is why Anson has a headlamp handy in order to read a simple book. |
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| Suzanne is getting DOWN! |
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| Alder has been captured by the children. She is lucky to have survived. |
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| Elizabeth used these statues to explain to me the life cycle of the frog. |
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| We gonna rock down to/Troll Avenue. |
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| Suzanne on the shoulder of the troll, with Barb below. Climbing on the troll seemed super sketchy, and it's amazing that many kids don't fall from its shoulders or head to be killed or at least severely disabled. |
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| This clown statue commemorates a local TV show host . |
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| Barb's on TV! If you look through this TV from Barb's side you see the two clowns and that's the way Seattle has memorialized these two very influential kid show clowns. I really like that. |
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| That's Anson in the blue hat. |
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| Fremont is the cool Seattle neighborhood in which we hung out. |
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| The Crew. |
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