March Wrap-Up Part 1
Pictures to go along with the story.
Phew, now that was a busy but fun month. To start off with, I joined the BMWCCA PSR for their Car Control Clinic over at Bremerton Raceway. This was a day-long program where forty participant cars broke up into four groups, and rotated four stations with their instructors, learning the handling and braking limits of their cars. After we were done rotating the stations, we set up two autocross courses on the track and just went at it for three hours. I’m going to follow up with more details on this event because I think its not only a lot of fun but a great learning experience as well.
Then I followed that up with a bevy of outings for my birthday including a night out with the guys, lunch with my team at work, lunch with the guys at work, and probably two more lunches or dinners I’m missing here somewhere. In the process, I was able to coin a couple of terms: the Lighthouse, which is a move I may describe later; and the nickname Texas Ranger for someone who shall remain nameless. We had a lot of fun with those though.
The next weekend my dad and brother came up to visit. I hadn’t seen them since the holidays so I was definitely glad to have them up here. We hung out and they finally got to see my place in person. Ara drove up with me on the move but I didn’t have my own place while he was here. We lucked out on the weather while they were here; it was mostly sunny and hit 67 on Monday. It was so warm, I was about ready to declare it the beginning of summer. On Sunday we hit up Salty’s on Alki for their out-of-this-world seafood brunch. Salty’s is on the water across from downtown Seattle so it has a fantastic view of the city, which you can see in the photos linked at the bottom of this post. The food is not too shabby either; we had so much seafood and dessert that we didn’t really eat another meal all that day. That was a first.
Not satisfied with two weekends of fun in a row, I headed out the following Thursday night to good old Los Angeles…
I’ll finish the story in another post. Its already the middle of April and this thing has been sitting here unfinished in my dock for days.