Olympia Farmers Market

My mom and Don came home from their extended stays in Italy and Croatia, and to celebrate a belated Mother's Day, we went to Budd Bay Cafe for a Sunday brunch. It's always so yummy and luckily the morning sickness hadn't kicked in so badly yet that I couldn't enjoy it!

Andi pretending to concentrate really hard on coloring, but really checking out all the people in the place when she thought they weren't looking:

After brunch, we headed over the Olympia Farmer's market, one of my favorite places to people watch. I guess here I'm watching some of my favorite people, heh.



I wish the Gig Harbor Farmer's Market was a little more like this. . .



As soon as I turned the camera on Arlie, she started posing. The funny thing is she doesn't really do anything obvious, but my mom saw it too. It's just a different posture or something. Hilarious.



Gig Harbor Street Scramble 2012

We participated in Gig Harbor's street scramble for the first time this year. The largest in North America, you're given a topographical map with numbered points on it. Each point is given a point value, along with a corresponding clue and question to verify you actually visited it. You could either go for 90 minutes or 3 hours. Because we're insane, we decided on the 3 hour version. At least it was a beautiful day for it:

Andrew and Arlie consult the map to make sure we were going the right way. After we climbed 80+ stairs. Carrying strollers. (We were.)

You know Gig Harbor is hilly, but you probably don't realize how hilly until your wife is wheezing up hill #20 behind you vowing to add some cardio to her workout repertoire.

Just for reference, we started this whole shebang at sea level.

After being a little sad that we didn't hit more points, we headed back to Skansie park with 1 minute 2 seconds to spare. Arlie made a rocket and both her and Andi had fun making it fly while we waited for them to tally the results.

To our surprise, we won 2nd place! Yay Team JA3!

All I can think when I see this photo is that Andi marches to the beat of her own drummer. Which is absolutely true and brilliantly captured here:

Yay some more! Totally worth the 2 broken strollers and aching feet!