I had a long day. Alarm went of at 3:50 and I left at 4:05. Got to the Amtrak station in Wenatchee and found street parking for the day, then waited. My 5:35 train was running late and didn’t show up until 6. On the train I finished season 4 of The 100 and finished reading the Eleven Prague Corpses book from Paul. The train had made it from Chicago to Wenatchee only 30 minutes behind schedule, but then we got stuck somewhere around Leavenworth waiting for a freight train. We lost another 90 minutes and were now two hours late. I’d been out of cell phone coverage while we were being delayed, but once back in range Peter and I decided I’d get off at Everett. He and the kids and Stephanie picked me up at the Everett station a little before 11, and we got to Breysse’s cabin about 11:40. Along the way Micah, Peter, and I discussed The 100, as I had just finished season 4 and was caught up.
Jen and Stacey had beaten us up there by a bit. We had a good book group meeting, not really talking about the books until after 1, as Chris was supposed to be showing up from his AP training. When we decided we’d waited long enough we started discussing the books.
By four we were ready to get going, and people were packing up to go. And that’s when Chris got there. He had been delayed by traffic and other things. Stacey left, but the rest of us sat back down and sort of had a second meeting, although we also talked about things at MTHS and the Edmonds District. Chris and Peter went down for a swim and I talked to Breysse for fifteen minutes or so and then we all left around 5:15.
We drove back to Peter’s house and dropped off Stephanie and the kids. We grabbed the third wheel for the bike, Peter packed, and we hit the road. Stopped for gas, then drove to Leavcnworth. Along the way discussed the band East West and who sang “Marseilles”. And all our usual politics and writing stuff.
In Leavenworth we parked and looked for somewhere to eat. Found the Bavarian Bistro and Bar and had a nice table by an open second floor window. We each got the sausage plates. Quite good. Got on the road from there about 9:15. We drove into Wenatchee where I got my car then led him to Chelan. I had Ben really tired leaving the cabin, so White had done all the driving. I picked up dinner to compensate. But by Wenatchee I was feeling good, and the adrenaline from having to lead him to Chelan and knowing he didn’t have a cell phone so I couldn’t lose him helped keep me focus. We got to the house just after 11.
While I was gone August slept until 8. He sat with grampa out on the porch, and they sent me photos of him sticking out his tongue. Carly took him for a walk and they got popcorn from Bear Foods and ate it in the park. Back at the house he helped gramma vacuum for a long time. And he asked about the silver fan, and why it has a switch and not a button. They talked about the thing that makes it rotate, and they tilted it, and he put things in front of the fan to see if they’d blow. Cotton balls were interesting, and then he got them wet to see what would happen when they blew. As Carly said, cotton balls were big today, as he also experimented with them in the bath, pouring water on them and putting them in the bath to see them expand.
Out in the kitchen sink, he poured things in a pan to experiment with color, and they did a science experiment where you soak an egg in cola, then brush it off with a tooth brush, which takes off the brown color. He wanted to add water to the cola, then that turned into an investigation of whether it was making the cola lighter or darker. He wanted to use other things, so they used some left over soy sauce, then some barbecue sauce, and Carly made tea and they used that and discussed whether their mixture was getting lighter or darker.
For dinner they had Kraft macaroni and cheese and some sort of sausage. He really liked the mac and cheese, saying “I like this. This is good.”
There’s also evidence that they played with Legos, as part of a water park that they made, with a water slide and other things, was still together.
He fell asleep about 8:40. He resisted going to sleep until Carly used the reverse psychology on him and told him he couldn’t go to sleep. That’s worked quite well on him for awhile now.