it was a beautiful day yesterday so I arranged an impromptu day trip to Whidbey Island with my parents. Malcolm had some stomach virus where he couldn't hold down any food on Friday afternoon/evening so unfortunately he couldn't go and Susan stayed home with him.
Too bad. It was lovely, warm and sunny the whole day, and we had a nice look around. We visited Joe's Island Music, our friends Rob and Rachel's music shop, and had lunch with Rob (and checked out a mini-guitar as a possible birthday gift for Malcolm in June).
Whidbey is beautiful: still largely bucolic and rural despite some yuppification with long beaches, dramatic cliffs and incredible vistas from virtually anywhere on the island, looking over the water west towards the Olympics or east towards Mount Baker and Everett
We checked out South Whidbey State Park and had a nice walk along the bluff at Fort Casey (above) where the kids were flying kites and exploring the never-used WWII battlements and tunnels -- what a great place for kids. Christopher's in Coupeville for dinner was a disappointment but I can't really complain... those Penn Cove mussels are so good you'd really have to screw up to make an unattractive meal of them. Still, I'd rather have taken a bucket and gathered the mussels ourselves from the plentiful ones on the beach and cooked them up at home.
The m&p are considering buying some land up there and building a retirement home. My 70-something dad likes to say he has "one house left in him" (he build a house mostly by himself when we were kids back in the 1970's... every weekend for three years!) so I hope they go through with it. Between our friends, my parents and the lovely scenery and beaches we'd have no excuse to not just shoot up there on the weekends. Plus Malcolm would benefit from time spent tramping around in the woods or foraging on the beaches.
Snaps are here.
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