I love Mom and Mothers Day

Abby titled this post and Emma added,

No! and Dad!

Today, however, belonged to The Mommy.
We woke up, made breakfast, served it in bed per tradition, and immediately prepared to do a walk with a picnic down by the lake. The destination was a ‘Castle Turret’ near Interstate 90.
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About two and a half hours later we were ready to go.

As we arrived two fundamental issues were quickly discovered with my well laid plans.
They weren’t bugs, problems, nor really even features per se…just issues that could not be deferred; there was no workaround.

Software geeks in the audience will understand and just about everybody reading this is related (by marriage or blood) to a software geek and may therefore implore upon said geek for an explanation if you care enough. It isn’t critical to the story…more like a funny little inconsequential aside Easter Egg.

Anyway, back to our day.
Two issues

1. Because I have only ever viewed this castle from my bike I didn’t pay close attention to where it was…and where it was certainly felt a lot closer on a bike than where it turned out to be on foot.
2. Lake Washington Boulevard is closed every Sunday in the Spring and Summer to bicycle and pedestrian traffic only.

Number two isn’t a true problem unless you intend on supplementing bicycle recon with a drive by.
As a result we ended up walking 1.1 miles each way, in princess dresses, mismatched shoes, with picnic fixins, blankets and all just to see the castle turret.

But…along the way we sure had a heckuva good time and took a heckuva lot of pictures.

We got back very tired, some of us already sleeping, and all took a nice nap.
It was a good day.

P.S. Did I mention that we took one hundred and sixteen photos in about 3 hours…I may have to look into a better way to show these off if this trend continues.