Cloudy Saturday Morning...

...but according to my trusty weather app, the sun will break through starting around 3 p.m., just in time for Peter and Claire's wedding.

The kids are sleeping in here in our rental unit. I'm drinking coffee, sorting photos, and soon will read the New York Times and Washington Post online. a daily ritual.

Here are some photos of the place where we're staying:

Beach BBQ

Aidan and Zaira

Julia and Zaira: How to shoot.

Claire and Laila.

Peter

Sand castle crew

Builders

Julia and Laila

Three sisters: Julia, Sarah Daisy, and Laila

Partiers

Oliver and Dylan, Zaira

On a beautiful evening here in Seattle, a large number of the guests for Peter and Claire's wedding tomorrow gathered at a lovely beach park not far from here. The kids and grandkids and Peter's high school friends and Claire's relatives and friends partied for hours on the edge of Puget Sound.

Aidan, Dylan, Julia and Zaira spent some exceptionally active time on the beach building a sand castle and covering one another (the little ones) with sand.

Tomorrow are the big events -- the wedding and the reception!

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Touring U-W

I took my first Uber and Lyft rides today -- the traffic in Seattle is too heavy and confusing, even with GPS, to hazard. Julia is applying to the University of Washington, so we signed up for a tour. Zaira came with us.

It's a beautiful place I've visited before but this was their first time. A highlight is the Graduate Library, an enormous hall with a enormous ceiling and stained-glass windows all around. The campus also is green and shady and huge.

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Sleeping in Seattle

Aidan, Zaira, Dylan, Julia and I flew up here this afternoon, drove to our rental unit, which we love, in the northern end of the city, ate at a nearby Mexican restaurant, bought some groceries at a nearby store, and settled in for the night.

We were wowed by Mt. Ranier and the Space Needle, the pro sports stadiums, and the architecture of the city generally. It's beautiful summer weather right now and Seattle is green.

The kids really like the unit I rented via VRBO, an Airbnb-type service. It is clean and has the amenities we need. It is in a busy residential-commercial neighborhood and apparently not far from the wedding venue.

Tomorrow, Julia and I will visit the Unversity of Washington.

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Circle of Poison

Laila and Sarah came into the city Friday night to meet me at the Roxie, where the new documentary Circle of Poison aired as the main feature of an environmental film festival.

It is a great film, IMHO, funded via Kickstarter. They traveled all over the world, visiting places where pesticides have harmed people and the land they work on. They also documented how some communities are turning away from poisons to grow food and returning to sustainable agriculture, which is how we grew our food throughout history -- until the end of World War 2.

It was great to attend the event with two of my daughters!

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Luca is 8!

His cousins and sisters, parents, auntie, grandma, and friends celebrated today!

Happy Birthdays!

Celebrating Laila and Loic's 40th birthdays!

Big family news -- after their wedding in early August, Peter and Claire are moving to the Bay Area! Peter has been awarded a fellowship with an organization in Palo Alto that helps academics like him find jobs in the private sector, probably in the high tech industry. Claire can transfer from Google in Venice to Mountainview or San Francisco.

We are thrilled!

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