In honor of the one year anniversary of our vacation to Paris, Sunny and I ate a picnic on Greenlake. We loved eating picnics in Paris so a picnic was a perfect way to celebrate our vacation. Although there is no way I could top the city where I proposed to my wife, we always have a place in our heart for picnics. I’ve included a few picnic photos from Paris below. Bon appetite!

Sunny and I helped Sunny’s sister Jessica paint the kitchen in her new apartment. The color looks good, but we really had to struggle to reach every corner on every wall. Jessica’s new apartment is beautiful and the cats are settling in nicely.

Sunny and I visited the Seattle Art Museum for free! The SAM offers free tickets to the museum on the first Thursday of each month. We love wandering through the new exhibits. This time the newest exhibit was a gallery of paintings from American artists. We are looking forward to the next exhibit! In this photo I am monkeying around with a sculpture of a monkey.

Sunny received two tickets to the Seattle Symphony as a gift from her boss. The Ebene Quartet performs the Beethoven String Quartet, a wonderful performance!

Sunny and I ate dinner on Alkai Beach. The weather was terrific, but cold, and the food at a small Greek Restaurant was delicious.

Sunny and I celebrated Andre’s birthday at Andre and Carrie’s house with a huge BBQ! On the grill was some of the best pork I’d ever had, two whole chickens, and spicy Cajun spice rubbed salmon. And Jessica is pregnant! The party was fun, and I now have some great drinking stories to blackmail Sunny with.

Sunny and I drove to Bellingham to relax for a day on the road. Later that day, Sunny and I looked at appliances at Home Depot for our future home. Lunch was at Bob’s Burger and Brew, where Sunny ate a salad and I ate an outstanding hamburger. Later that night was Andre’s BBQ!

We ate at Red Mill for Mom’s birthday – really, Mom requested this restaurant for dinner! A burger at Red Mill is absolutely fantastic! They have this great sauce that they slather on the burger. And when you add bacon you get perfection. The whole family was there! We had cupcakes for dessert.

I can’t believe it snowed again! We had about three inches in six hours this morning. This weather is impossible to predict, and it is cold! I hope spring comes soon. I want to go to the beach…

I took these two photos in the Seattle Public Library. The building is architecturally cool – a steel and glass pseudo-pyramid among the tall skyscrapers of the Seattle center.