I really like spending time one-on-one with Carter and Claire. Family time is great, but the kids compete for attention and with them 5 years apart in age it can be hard for them to find common ground.
Yesterday Claire and I went out on a little father daughter date. First up, we attended Lullaby Moon in Magnuson Park. Amazing. There are so many things that happen in Seattle that we just don’t find out about until it is so late. I found out about this through a link on the Seattle Flickr page. Lullaby Moon is a sort of outdoor interactive theater event and it felt custom made for Claire. Claire wore a white and gold princess gown the grandma Dot gave her a year or so ago. I lost count of the number of people who came up and told her how beautiful she looked. We got to go on a Carriage ride in a massive down bed while a mooner told us bedtime stories. Beautiful.
Claire got hungry before the event was over, so we went to her favorite restaurant for dinner. Blue C Sushi. She loves some conveyor belt sushi. After we filled up on Sushi and Candy (from the boutique candy store next door) we went off to see some B-Boys battle at The Takeover. Claire was not as into the Hip-Hop break dancing competition, and it was getting late so I took a few photos and we left. In the 15 minutes we were at this event I saw some pretty amazing dancing.
Overall it was a great father / daughter date night.
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Carter and I went to the Penny Arcade Expo for the 3rd year in a row this weekend. Super fun as always. We spent a ton of time in the Wizards Of The Coast RPGA area doing “Dungeon Delves”. Yeah, playing D&D. I think we ended up putting in about 13 – 15 hours playing Dungeons and Dragons. The WOTC area was run great, the people working their are super nice. The main organizer, who seemed to work from ~9:30 am to about Midnight even remembered Carter and I from last year… I wish I could remember her name, sorry…
We spent so much time in D&D land we really didn’t see too many panels, we hit the final round of the Omegathon… 6000 people cheering on 2 guys playing Skee-Ball was something that might seem weird anywhere else, at PAX? Pretty normal. We saw a development panel on independent game design as well.
Expo floor highlights; Left 4 Dead 2, Arcane Legions (a warhammer type turn based game, we bought the starter set), Scribblenauts (DS game).
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RT @tofuguns I have to drag my son away from this shelf in our local comic shop – http://alturl.com/yfny
