Thomas (the tank engine)

My dad arrived today. He's in town until next Thursday. So, that's cool. I'll have a killer post to put up after this weekend. We're going up to Victoria on the ferry from Anacortes, so I'll have great pictures - evn if it's raining. But I don't think it will be.

But we went out to dinner tonight and I realized how much I miss him. I roll my eyes sometimes when he insists on calling everyday to see how I am. But I knew this was because of his recent hospital stay and his inability to do anything but hang out. And now that he's been to the LA convention and he's up here to do some business, he feels better. We're alike that way. I cannot sit around and do nothing. My mind is always going and it sucks to be unable to do the things you want to do. Or are thinking about doing.

So, tonight we had fantastic pasta at Mamma Melina's in the U-district. It's a small little place on Roosevelt Ave NE, underneath the Green Gables Theater, which is a super cool cinema - now showing "Who killed the electric car?" or something similarly titled. I could barely finish my Penne Siciliano, which was penne in tomato sauce with eggplants and melted mozzarella cheese. Crazy good.

And tomorrow night, we'll be going out with Kim, Vic and Kim's mother. Kim could be called notoriously talkative and lively, so I think it'll be a great evening. Especially if her mother is the same. It'll be good for Dad to meet some of the people I've met up here.

He had a great Dad moment when he saw the house I'm living in. It's not that it's in a bad neighborhood, but it's right off the freeway in the middle of university aged students, so it's not the prettiest looking community. But it is safe and the people are great. But he said, as we were walking to dinner, "You haven't had any problems with robbery?" "No, dad. No problems with robbery." "OK, good. I mean, there are six of you in the house. Safety in numbers." Honestly, it was the cutest thing my dad could have ever said to me at that point.

More to come....

A picture of me with my cute, new haircut.

Dish about more dad time and yummy dinners.

Pictures of Victoria.