Of Cake and Cars

IDLE TIME: For most of today, I was elbow deep in cake batter (for a special project for a former co-worker of Ken's). Mercifully, Ken was here, and helped a LOT every step of the way. Between the two of us, we cranked out six half sheet cake layers from scratch (which is the equivalent of three full sheet cakes if you think about it). All of this coming out of my lil ol' Hotpoint Hallmark oven circa 1965-ish, one half sheet pan at a time.

Thankfully, the kids were mostly good about amusing themselves. They read and played video games and there was lots of LEGO action.

Though I was tempted to stay home and power through the baking, a little before 4 p.m. I decided I really needed to get them out of the house and take them to yoga. And so, we hopped in the car and an HOUR later we were at yoga.(CJ took this photo of Bee. Before shooting it, he told her, "Say, 'Car!' "

Not sure what the trouble was but from Interbay to SODO we were stop and go - but mostly stop. Of course, that's when the sun chose to come out, too, and my car no longer has air conditioning. Good times. :/

We got to yoga five minutes late, but better late than never. The kids enjoyed their class (tell me THIS doesn't look awesome) ...

... and I got a short walk in, which gave me a chance to admire flowers that are finally blooming all over Seattle. FLOATING OVERHEAD: While I was baking cake today, far above the Earth, a pair of NASA astronauts were going for a space stroll. Per a NASA press release, "Expedition 28 Flight Engineers Mike Fossum and Ron Garan completed a six-hour, 31-minute spacewalk at 3:53 p.m. EDT Tuesday, retrieving a failed pump module for return to Earth, installing two experiments and repairing a new base for the station’s robotic arm."

Atlantis is so photogenic. Check out this shot, taken by the ISS crew. Image: NASA
You can see the Raffaello multi-purpose logistics module, packed with supplies and spare parts, at the rear of the cargo bay.