Holy man holes

So we had one of those nearly once-in-a-lifetime weekends. Alone, sort of. The kids were gone to see their other parents and we were free to do whatever we wanted.

Saturday we both did a little work in the morning and then took the afternoon to go do something we wanted to do together.

It was free museum day, so we downloaded the coupon and headed for the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma. (I know, we are so WILD.)  We had a great time there. Neither of us had ever been, and it really was interesting. The traveling exhibit is D.B. Cooper.  I knew the name and basic story, but the exhibit kind of brought it all to life for us.

We stayed there for quite a long time, it was closing time when we left, and we still hadn't seen everything. I'll definitely be using it for homeschooling.

We parked in the pay lot as close to the entry as possible, or so we thought. Turns out the entry was around the building, but no big deal. It was kind of rainy, but not real bad. Yet.

As we came out it was raining pretty hard.

You might say, "Hey, you're in Washington, the Pacific Northwest. What do you expect?" And you would be right, except that it was a downpour! And I mean violent downpour. The security guard inside allowed people to go out the back door to avoid walking around the building to the parking lot.

We made a run for it to the car, which we were so thankful was parked only three parking spaces from that door we came out, and we were pretty wet.

When Chuck made the turn to go onto Pacific Avenue in downtown Tacoma, a river was rolling down the street. A Hummer was driving toward us in the other lane, and the water was spraying up onto the hood.

We drove further and were about to make a left turn onto 15th, and a man hole was spouting water like a fountain. And it was like that all through downtown.

This is a view of the manhole on Pacific Avenue from our
back window. 

Once we made a couple of stops for some errands the rain let up a bit and we made our way to Anthony's restaurant for dinner.

I chose the Alaskan Langcod with huckleberry sauce. Soooooo good. I even got a dessert, because it's huckleberry time and it only comes once a year. I got the huckleberry cheescake. I love going there this time of year because they always have huckleberries on the menu. I have to do extra walking and double time on the Yoga and Pilates this week, but it was worth it.