Big Bang

                            
TICKET TO RIDE:  As we were out in Ballard/ Greenwood doing some pre-trip errand running this afternoon, the kids talked us into going to Chuck's today, a beer an ice cream parlor. It doesn't take much arm twisting to get us to go there. ;)

One of the primary reasons they and we love it is because we always play board games there. Today's challenge was Ticket to Ride, a super fun game where you're trying to build railroad empires/lines.

About 15 minutes into the game, we could see that Christain was up to no good (for us), and we tried to block him, but it was already too little, too late. We're looking forward to a rematch.

BACK TO SCHOOL:  Seattle Public Schools were back in session today. That didn't affect us. ;)   However, we did 'report' to class with the University of Tokyo!

Months ago, we signed up for a 4-week long class called "From the Big Bang to Dark Energy" through Coursera. A couple of days ago when I saw that half of it overlapped our trip to NYC and London, I told the kids I thought we should drop out.  CJ was AGHAST and pleaded for me to reconsider. Of course I yielded to his higher wisdom.  :)

So, we watched the first five lectures of Week 1 today. We already love our professor Hitoshi Murayama and we're going to find a way to make it work, despite our travels. After all, what's more important than the origin of life, the universe and everything?

I'd like to invite each and every one of you to join it with us! :)

ROOT, ROOT ROOT:  As regular readers know, yesterday we ventured up to the Everett AquaSox game. It was big fun, and one of the ways they involved the crowd was by inviting kids to come down on to the field to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the 7th inning stretch.

Christian took the kids down and CJ and Annabelle did their part to help rouse the crowd. Here's them singing "and it's one, two three strikes you're out."