Posted by Adrienne on July 28, 2010 under Photos | 
Lake Washington, just east of downtown Seattle, is a popular place to go boating and canoeing. When we went canoeing last summer, we snapped this picture:
The highway 520 floating bridge crosses Lake Washington between the Arboretum and the University of Washington campus. The UW shell house is a great place to rent a canoe, and it’s easy to paddle under the 520 bridge to the Arboretum. I liked how the sunlight on the water caused the reflection on the underside of the highway.
If you’re in Seattle on a sunny day and want something to do, go over to the UW campus and check it out!
Posted by Adrienne on July 27, 2010 under Soccer, Sounders |
It felt like so long since we saw a Sounders win at Qwest Field in league play that Sunday’s win over the Colorado Rapids was a huge relief and an exciting three hours. We had a great evening with few clouds and warm temperatures (a little *too* warm after jumping and supporting for 90 minutes, but not as hot as other games we’ve attended). That, combined with the Sounders better form and a little luck gave us one of the best matches so far this year.
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Posted by Adrienne on July 21, 2010 under Photos |
We didn’t plan to spend more than a day in Detroit, because we had heard and read all about how the city was decaying and we weren’t sure what there was to do. But when we found out about Belle Isle Park, and when we saw the beautiful weather that day, we kind of wished that we had a little more time in the Motor City:
Belle Isle is an island that is one big city park for the people of Detroit. It can be reached by the bridge that is in the foreground of the photo. There are lots of playgrounds, beaches for swimming, a golf course and many other amenities. It looked like a great place to spend a day, but we only had an afternoon. It would be great fun to go back sometime soon!
Posted by Adrienne on July 19, 2010 under Books |
My most recent books for the Book Count were the 5 books in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. I’ve read the first four before, but I wanted to have the story fresh in my mind as I read the last volume. My thoughts on the series as a whole and my review of the final book in the series are after the jump.
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Posted by Adrienne on July 16, 2010 under Books |
Yay! I’m half way to my goal of 100 books!
Incarceron by Catherine Fisher
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
It was an excellent idea. A cure for society’s ills and the makings of an entirely new society. What could possibly go wrong? Just imagine: a place to put all of the criminals and the evildoers where they cannot get at everyone else – yes, a prison, but what a prison! – and govern them with a computer programmed to fill their needs and allow them to build a new society, a utopia! Incarceron would be the perfect civilization, the pinnacle of human achievement!
It’s never that easy, of course. Despite the philosophers and scholars who volunteered to enter the prison at its beginnings, and the ability of the computer to provide everything the inmates needed, Incarceron became a living hell, a mechanical cage that brought out the worst of everyone in it. Finn is no different than the others – he does what he has to survive, including stealing and killing – but he does have glimpses in his mind of Outside and the mysterious tattooed eagle on his wrist. No enters or exits Incarceron…but if that’s true, how can Finn remember the birthday cake?
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