Memorial Day was the last day of the Northwest Folklife Festival, so after breakfast we drove into downtown Seattle, parking around the corner from the apartment building where older son used to live. We walked around the Space Needle in Seattle Center to the many stages and vendors set up for the festival. We brought sandwiches in case of long lines at the food trucks, but we ended up taking them back with us because we found beignets and many other goodies from around the world; we ate while watching Irish dance, shopped for tie-dye and art cards, and watched the Brittany Collins Band's full set on the Artist At Play Stage.
In the late afternoon we walked back through Belltown to the van, and drove back to Redmond in weather that had become warmer and sunnier throughout the day. We could see the mountain over Lake Washington as we drove out of the city. We ate the sandwiches we didn't finish at lunchtime for dinner along with macaroni and potato salad we had left over from the barbecue with our kids on Sunday, then we watched the unpleasant beginning of the Mariners-Yankees game (they ended up losing 10-4) before putting on Foundation, which seemed to us more entertaining than the books though neither of us remembers the books all that well.
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