We decided to do a low-impact meal and did an eleven o’clock dinner at the Snoqualmie Casino buffet.  I really enjoy these kinds of things. I love grazing with so many choices.  I ended up sampling turkey, dressing, ham, scalloped potatoes, green beans, carrots, mac and cheese, crab legs and even a little slice of pizza.

We spent a very enjoyable afternoon at the Seattle Kennel Club dog show today.  I just had to see a bunch of brittanys together.  They are just such beautiful animals. These are two of the seventeen competitors.   Trisha had the most fun watching the agility competition.

Trisha and I decided to broaden our cultural horizons: tonight we attended a performance of Don Quichotte at the Seattle Opera.  I can’t say the singing appealed to me but the staging was just terrific. We particularly enjoyed the real donkey and horse used by Don Quijote and Sancho Panza.

Cirque du Soleil made another stop at Redmond’s Marymoor Park and we braved a heavy rainstorm to watch Kooza. Although this was the sixth Cirque show for us we were still amazed and delighted. The show featured the standard kinds of acts: tightrope, contortionists, tumbling, balancing on chairs, and the like. However, the difficulty of the tricks and perfect execution make the traditional acts thrilling, even frightening in a few cases. I admire professional athletes but these artists perform at another level of skill. It’s all the more remarkable to think that they do these things eight to nine times a week.