Maltby & Mini Cooper

Saturday, September 29, 2007 - The Hunt family fly solo again for the first time in over a month. That's right, we are currently without any house guests. It actually felt a little weird at first. The night my dad went home, I actually forgot he had gone at one point & started to look for him for a second.
Dad was here for a month. He arrived with Mom, but she left after 10 days. He stayed to help us with some home projects. We had bamboo floors put in, and it's awesome. Vincent can really be free to crawl all over the place now. He also built us a small addition off our backdoor. We call it the "cat house." It's basically a storage space & where the litter box now lives.
Yesterday was also my first Saturday of not working, since I stopped working. After having Vincent, I went back to work for one day a week back in the spring. It was pretty good, but we were finding that we weren't getting much family time, with just the one weekend day together. So, for now, I'm 100% stay-at-home again.
To kick off our family time together, we rented a Mini Cooper from Flexcar for a few hours. Yeah, pretty cool, huh? We walked down to the Flexcar "pod" on Broadway with Vincent in the stroller. Turns out, it was a convertible. But, the weather sucked, so we didn't put the top down. Since it was a convertible, I don't think it had a trunk. We barely fit the stroller, car seat & all three of us in there. We drove back home, dropped off the stroller & were on our way to...The Eastside. We just wanted to go for a little drive.
We drove up to a small town near Snohomish called Maltby & had brunch at the Maltby Cafe. I guess it's in the basement of the old schoolhouse gymnasium. It was packed in there. The portions were huge. That plastic container David is carrying was their cinnamon roll. Yes, just one roll. We're actually still eating it. From Maltby, we drove down the 203, or was it the 202? Maybe we drove on both...Well, it took us through Duvall, then Carnation, and to Fall City, where we began to make our way back towards Seattle. It rained while we were out, but it was still nice to get out for a little drive.
As fun as the Mini Cooper was for a few hours, I don't think it's the right, um, fit for us (not that we were in the market for one). So cute, so sleek, so small.