Our love affair with summer in Seattle continues… Â Shane and I started our Saturday with morning runs (mine being a leisurely 3-mile jog around Jefferson Park, his being a 10-mile trek to Mercer Island and back), and then spread out a blanket at the park around the corner from us to catch the Blue Angels air show that happens as part of SeaFair every year. Â I love this event – it’s loud, and it causes traffic, and it blocks our access to the lake for a couple of days, but the feeling of ‘wow!’ you get when you see those four planes fly right over your head in perfect formation is pretty spectacular. Â As you get older, it seems that there are fewer things that really make you ‘ooh and ahh’ anymore, but these pilots never fail induce that childlike wonder in me. Â And…that was really the extent of the day’s excitement – I passed the rest of the afternoon reading/dozing on the back patio. Â And catching up on a few Grey’s Anatomy re-runs (seriously, how crazy was the end of season 6!?). Â Good stuff.
After spending much of today indoors at a volunteer event, I was itching to get out and sun-soak this evening. Â Shane suggested Lincoln Park in West Seattle – since we live so close to Lake Washington, I often forget about all the great places to walk along the shores of the Puget Sound, and look what I’ve been missing out on!
It was a perfect evening for a sunset stroll. Â We walked, we chatted, we sat on a log and watched the fishermen throw their final casts of the day, and we wondered, is there anywhere more ideal than Seattle in the summer?
