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Monday, June 16, 2008

Urban Demonstration Garden

Our letterboxing experience today took us to the Lake Hills Master Gardeners Urban Demonstration Garden. I love this place. Here is their list of upcoming workshops.

Miles found the cow in the children's garden.

SIFF Movies to Watch

Movies to watch:
SIFF Golden Space Needles Awards
Some Guy's SIFF Top Ten List

A whole new world opened up for us today - letterboxing! We've been waiting, on a nice day, to get out with Crystal and boys for a letterboxing tutorial/adventure. This was a lot of fun and i highly recommend it for anyone with kids! Upon finding the second box, Mina screamed with a huge burst of enthusiasm and excitement. At dinner, she told me that she wants to go letterboxing tomorrow, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. She's already decided that for her sixth birthday party we'll have a letterboxing event in the backyard/neighbourhood. So yeah, she liked it. Miles is catching on rather quickly.

The stamp that Mina picked out to use as "our stamp" in these logbooks just happens to be the Book of Kells stamp that we used on the back of our wedding celebration invites. Our matching wedding bands are Celtic and have the Book of Kells pattern engraved on them. Interestingly, when we were still living in Waterloo, Canada , we had ordered the stamp set from a stamping company based out of Seattle.

Letterboxing links: Letterboxing.org and AtlasQuest.com

I can already see that this will be a fun addition to our summer. I just checked with AtlastQuest and there are 274 letterboxes within 25 miles of my house.

KEXP Father's Day Dance Party 2008

Keeping up with another Father's Day tradition, we joined the diapered crowd at Neumos for the KEXP Father's Day Dance Party. John in the Morning was there with his son, Arlie, as well as tons of other indie music fans. There was some great crafts, breakdancing demos, cupcakes, facepainting and of course, dancing! Here is a link to the KEXP blog and their photos links. See if you can find us looking down on the dancers from the balcony. We are standing with friends Heidi, Rob and boys. As the blog photos show, the KEXP party is a blast for everyone.