Visiting Dignitaries

According to the text message I received just now, my Mom is safely back home in Florida, after spending 4 days here in the Pacific Northwest.

Many shenanigans did occur – including (but not limited to) jaunts that featured Volunteer Park and its tower, Lake View Cemetery, the Underground Tour, the Space Needle, the mall (long story), Ballard (where we shopped, lunched, and visited Kat on her boat), Snoqualmie falls, the Bainbridge ferry (so she could actually be out on the water), and I'm sure I'm forgetting something.

Anyway. Nice to have her, of course – and here's my favorite picture from the visit, with us rocking out on the ferry Blues-Brothers-style. It turns out we share a taste for big-ass sunglasses.

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