A spare of the moment trip to see some beautiful colors on a cool crisp fall day.
Today is Daniel's last day of volunteering at the UW Speech & Hearing Lab infant study and Andy wanted to come too so we had a little outing on the west side of lake Washington. After the study we tried out this Tofu House in the U-district for Andy's first Korean dinning experience for lunch near our parking lot (good food bad service). Andy loved all the side dishes that come with Korean meals, particularly the fish cake and green onion pancake.
I suggested walking around UW afterwards and Andy said no so we started driving back. Just before getting on 520, I mentioned the arboretum in Chinese and Andy thought it sounded funny and so we went there instead. Andy was excited about the many forks on the trails and the many things we saw. It was a fun discovery of giant pine cones, big branches (he shouted out "oh this one looks like a ..." for each branch he picked up), squirrel, and lots of mushrooms which Andy insisted me taking a picture of each so I could ask Ann about what kind they were. See pictures in the album below.
It occurred to me that the sightseeing was analogous to life in some ways: having many forks on the road and sometimes it doesn't matter which path you take but how you walk it. Keep a child like open and imaginative mind and notice things on the path, and it'd be a fun journey. I must have been in my philosophical mood at the time :-)
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