Husky Basketball with Auntie Michele

It may have taken several attempts but we FINALLY made it to a UW basketball game as a family with our dear friend Michele. She is a season tickets holder and has wanted to make this happen for a while now, but we have been... well, a little busy!!

Lucky us, the game we were able to attend was a fun game on a great (partly sunny) winter day in Seattle. We packed up Janie in the Bjorn with some ear plugs under her hat and it ended up working better than we had expected.

Of course our first stop was visiting the Husky statue outside of Hec Ed. We always talk about it when we drive past the stadium, so it was neat for Clara to see it up close.

Family Shot

The game was a little closer than we expected, but the Huskies still came out victorious, of course it didn't hurt that they had little Miss Clara cheering them on! She LOVED watching the cheerleaders and mimicked many of their moves. Too bad she was not quite as impressed with some of the basketball moves, because if she keeps growing at her current rate, and inherits a little of Daddy's agility, she might make a good ball player.


After the game, we decided to take Clara to see some of the UW campus. It had been a few years since we had been there so it was fun to see some of the changes. Since Mommy & Daddy met during our undergrad years at UW, it holds many fum memories for us. Right after entering Red Square, Clara calls out, "Oh look, it's an obelisque!" Whoa!! What!?! At first we were not sure what she said and got her to repeat, it even more clearly the second time. Sure enough, that is exactly right, Broken Obelisk statue was right there. It took us a minute, but we traced this monument knowledge back to a special book we purchased for her at the Louvre this summer, Paris - Hide and Seek. For a while it is a favorite bedtime activity of Clara and Kevin's.

We also had to tell Clara about Suzzallo, let her see the fountain and its ducks and found the columns from the original UW campus.

Crazy University of Washington Girls

What a fun day for us all!