We had a busy weekend, too many parties and festivals to attend. I’m pretty wiped out!
It was a gorgeous Saturday when we headed to Everett for Ali’s Dad’s 80th birthday party. Her family is a trip, some really fun stories abound there. LOL We hung out with them along with Saysha & Joe. Ali’s brother Dennis had made some pulled pork and it was pretty darn good. After a couple of hours of numerous belly laughs, great company and big hugs to Dad Gilmore, we were off to our next soiree in Edmunds.
It was the 3rd Annual Rosewood Manor Pig Roast—I had missed the other 2, but we made it to this one. And it was fabulous. They had buried the pig in the ground Hawaiian style and it was so tender the meat just fell off the pig. It was YUMMY! Along with the pig they also had a bluegrass band. Turns out there are quite a few southern transplants in Seattle, and thank god they brought the pig pickin tradition with them. Robert thought it was funny that he could find such a thing here in Washington stated. =) Everybody watched as they dug the pig up and dished it all out. I ate so much I felt like I was going to pop. The band was great, playing all kinds of things—Guns & Roses and Michael Jackson played in a bluegrass fashion is quite entertaining! And if you didn’t think you had had enough pig, Robert got the bright idea to go get stuff to make s’mores. Everybody was whacking of branches from the bushes to roast marshmallows! LOL I had one bite, nothing else was fitting in my tummy!
Sunday it rained in the morning and was pretty gray and misty the rest of the day, but we headed over to the International District for the Chinatown Summer Festival. There wasn’t too much out there, there was probably more yesterday—looked like it anyway. We wandered a bit and then went to a Chinese/Cambodian noodle place for lunch. Then I took Robert over to the Uwajimaya market. He’s really enjoying all of the grocery options around here! And Linda – you know how I love to wander through the Asian markets. =)
Some pictures below of the weekend – my tummy will never be the same. Definitely need to hit the gym between Roberts cooking and all of our outings—because I am not going to by a bigger size pants, especially since I just gave them all away a few months back!
- Saysha
- 3 Amigas
- Robert & Joe
- Here comes the pig
- S’mores
- Naomi and Dad
- That pig was good wasn’t it?
- Its smokin!
- Spare Rib and the Blue Grass Sauce
- YUM!
- Travis in charge
- Was that thunder?
- The crowd looks on
- International District
- LUNCH!
- One day I’ll be this good! LOL
- Festival streets






























I’m beginning to think that I must always have boxes surrounding me, or I won’t feel at home. Will I be getting ready to move again 6 weeks after I open the last box again?? Man I hope not.
One thing we did get this weekend was a new bed. We are sleeping on my 6-year old blowup mattress and I think I have finally gotten the last out of the $100 I spent on it. It has a slow leak and has become the most uncomfortable thing to sleep on. So I had mentioned that maybe we would want to look at buying a bed, because I wasn’t going to make it til Thursday waiting for a good nights sleep. So after pricing mattresses at Macy’s, Robert wheeled and dealed us a fabulous discount on a new mattress, to be delivered on Monday. So then we went back out to Ikea and bought a $500 platform bed that Robert had the fun of putting together all day on Sunday.

We blew up the mattress, went to Whole Foods across the street to pick up a little something for dinner, ate dinner, had a shower, and then went to bed. We were ready not to have to go anywhere for tomorrow.
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