UPDATE 1: The first review is in for Brendan Healy's new play Suffering, INC: We loved it!
The second (glowing) review is from a more unbiased source:
The Seattlest
UPDATE 2: The link to the Singapore Postcards is here!
Summer arrived late in Seattle, but when it finally got here, it was as glorious as ever. To add to spectacular
weather, we enjoyed several guests from far way .... and as Confucius liked to say,"Is that not a joy?"
Deception Falls at Stevens Pass
Our French friends didn't complain at all as we put them through the full Seattle Experience: Mariners game, Costco, zoo, whale watching, pedicures, Leavenworth and Vancouver, beer night, pizza party and burger joints. Here they are, still going strong at Deception Falls in the Cascade Mountains.
News & Notes
The Mariner's game was not just any game. The M's played the high-flying Boston Red Sox. But with the magic that brought with them, Ichiro hit a home run immediately and the Mariners won! (If you follow baseball, you know that after this game, Boston crashed and burned.)
Oh yes! And did we mention that they saw two pods of killer whales rendezvous on their whale watching trip?
One of the advantages to living in Seattle is that we are on the path to and from Alaska. We scored this year when Ginny and Gary Tierney came through and hung out with us for a few days after their cruise to the North. It's hard to believe the babies the four of us played with back in Guilford, CT, are now grown with busy lives of their own, but we parents haven't changed a bit!
Ginny and Gary
The Sea-based X band Radar (SBX), a mid-Pacific ballistic missile tracking system, was in Seattle for maintenance this summer. It looks like a gigantic pregnant spider, but it actually has only six legs. In August, while the neighborhood kids enjoyed the sun and sand, three navy tug boats towed it out of Puget Sound and back into the central Pacific.
For those of you who have been wondering, our visitor Alan Fekete DID make it home to Sydney in time for the birth of his and Shirley's second daughter Ruth! It was great to catch up with Alan on all of the news that doesn't make it to their blog.
We finished the summer with a glorious Labor Day on Lopez Island with Shelley and Ken Burr. The boat ride alone to and from Lopez past Mt. Baker was spectacular.
Brendan Healy's latest play Suffering, Inc. is opening October 27th. It's a day in a modern office using dialog from plays by Anton Chekhov. See you there!
Oh, and by the way, L finished the fifth edition of his Fluency with Information Technology book!