Seattle Police Action, Weather & Food

Thursday we rode a circuit of Mercer Island.  It's an island (duh) in Lake Washington, populated by expensive homes.  The closer one is to the water, the more it costs.  I saw nothing noteworthy on the ride, so there are no photos.  After the ride we went into downtown Seattle, thinking I could quickly nip into Sally Beauty and then we'd head back before rush hour.  No, no nipping for us.  There was an enormous police action going on in the vicinity of the Federal Courthouse.  The entire block was cordoned off.

We had the Sheriff's office, and Seattle PD.  They're looking fairly relaxed.

Thee was an SUV with a massive amount of equipment.  That appears to be a pull out tray of some sort underneath the rear door.

More street blockage, both to cars and pedestrians.  So, you would think, with this much police presence, that there would have been news coverage, right?  Nothing.  Nada.  Zip.  We checked print, TV and web news and there has been zero coverage of the event.  It was interesting to watch.

We headed home through Pioneer Square so we could avoid the traffic.  It's so weird when a person's home town becomes a tourist destination.  To us, its just Seattle, but we are now a subject of much interest.  The cruise ships have been one factor, certainly.  It was starting even before the ships came.   It's good for the merchants.

Mt. Rainier was trying to be out on the way home, but there was too much haze.  Cliff Mass says it's due to smoke from Asia.

Yesterday morning we were treated to thunderstorms, rain with big drops and hail.  Rain here is categorized by drop size.  Inuits have 20 words for snow, we have at least 10 for rain.  This is the radar during the morning.  See the big red splotch sort of mid radar?  That's where we are.  It's not usual for this to happen.  We're supposed to be in our annual 30 day dry period.

This is also taken from the Cliff Mass weather blog.  It's a really cool lighting picture.

And now for the food section.  Read the text underneath "Good Friends".  Twigs?  Toasted twigs.  I have long suspected Kashi was using twigs.

Last night's dinner came from the Gemini Fish market, and it was good.  We got a tub of crab meat because we do not like picking these guys.  Too much anatomy!

 So, that has been the last half of this week.