Greetings from Redmond Town Center

Paul and I had a lovely afternoon in Redmond Town Center, where we ate lunch at Kitanda and went to the Redmond Arts Festival, which is held in conjunction with the Redmond Derby Days carnival, craft market, and parade. We looked at lots of jewelry and painting and pottery and tried to keep cool, then we came home and walked on the dock, where lots of geese and a few herons were hiding in the wetlands from the heat.

 

But the big news of the afternoon was that Adam and Haley announced their engagement! He asked her yesterday at Mount Rainier National Park, she said yes, and there was much celebrating by everyone in both our families. I spent a lot of the evening chatting with people on Facebook who wanted to know the details of how they met, since Hildy and I have been friends for more than 50 years, though Solveig was the one who set them up. 

We watched the 2010 Robin Hood (Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Oscar Isaac, William Hurt) after a small dinner -- still full from lunch -- because something I'd read in the past few days got me in the mood for it, and now we're watching this week's Orphan Black: Echoes, which is taking an awfully long time to get to its point, whether that's an ethical one or a dramatic one, let alone how it connects to the original beyond a couple of characters.