Fun Sunday

TACOMA FUN: Sunday morning we headed down south to Tacoma to go to a radio station's birthday party. Yes, seriously.

CJ has become, um, what's a friendlier word for 'obsessed' with 102.9, an alternative rock radio station out of Tacoma?

I guess it's not a bad thing. In fact, I rather love all the music. It's '90s grunge galore, and the music I grew up with along with CJ's older brother's, Rick and Ken.So, I love that music and we were happy to indulge CJ's wishes.

The party was at 7 Seas Brewing in Tacoma. They have a cool, expansive space. 7 Seas has an interesting history. Their circuitous path led them to brewing in the old Heidelberg brewing space, iconic if you're a Pac NWer of a certain age. 

Since CJ was the impetus for attending, we'll let him tell you all about it. ...

 Yesterday, my family headed down south to Tacoma, to go to 7 Seas Brewing. We went to attend the 1st birthday celebration of Alt 102.9, a radio station from Tacoma (though licensed to Centralia) specializing in the last millennium's alternative rock. The 7 Seas Brewing building was a very nice and clean venue, and there was a "spinning table", where you could try to spin a wheel to win a prize. While my family spun it 4 times (to no success), we did get some promotional stickers. emblazoned with Alt 102.9's logo. Lastly, there was pizza from "The Rock", a series of restaurants with very good wood-fired pizza.
http://alt1029.iheart.com/calendar/february-26-2017/alt-1029-birthday-bash-545945/http://www.therockwfk.com/

WE ARE DORKS: Since we were down in Tacoma, we knew we had to go to our #1 draw in that town: Dorky's Arcade.

I'll let Annabelle tell you a bit more about that visit.

Dorky’s is an arcade in downtown Tacoma and one of our favorite spots to stop when we’re in town. The arcade is a bit small, but it has classics like Burgertime and Frogger, favorites like Dance Dance Revolution, and some games I’ve never seen before! One of those games was Killer Queen, which is somewhat like Joust, but with teams of 5. Each team has one “Queen” and you can win 3 ways: Either kill the other team’s queen 3 times, bring enough berries home to your hive, or ride the slow snail to your side of the screen. It was really fun, but it seems like it would be more fun with more players. They also had a giant version of Pac-man, which was neat because it was also competitive. There were 2 players on screen at once, but other than that it was essentially normal Pac-man on a huge screen made of individual lights. It was super fun at Dorky’s and I love visiting when we can!

CJ had the high score (so far) of the day on Sunday on the table version of Donkey Kong.

The arcade also has a few pinball machines. This one was my favorite.

And we loved this old school slot action hockey game.