On the Evening of the First Day

After exploring Seattle, we took the water taxi across Elliott Bay to West Seattle, where cousin Christie Skoorsmith met us at the landing and drove us to her lovely home. Christian had made dinner (with his dad as his sous chef), and had decorated the table and chairs on the deck with a beautiful deep red tablecloth, and gold chair covers. So elegant for outdoor dining! We met their lovely baby Eva, Christian's mom and dad (who were visiting from Arizona), and saw cousin Marie and daughter Grace, Aunt Lois and Uncle Ron, and Marie's friend Eric, who Grace called Barry for most of the evening. Christy, Christian, Marie, Grace, Eva, and Ben at various times played a bean bag toss using Christian's Monkey Wrench Game board. Who knew it was so easy to abolish poverty, provide universal health care, organize a union, achieve true democracy, and elect a pro-labor candidate!

It was a wonderful evening, and so nice to connect with family. The highlight of the evening was when Christian serenaded us on his bag pipes, accompanied by Eric on the drum.

Marie drove us back to Seattle, after a stop to give us a tour of her lovely little West Seattle home, and we caught a late ferry back to Bainbridge Island.