Hello Muddah hello Fadduh

As we're here in Seattle for a week we enrolled Ruby in holiday camp so she can play with some people her own age for a change. Ruby's program is a daily camp which runs out of the primary school just near where we're staying although there are plenty of overnight camps too. She attended her first day yesterday and loved it, made some friends and couldn't wait to return this morning. Ruby and her new friend Leila made a karaoke clip in the mock recording studio, baked some pretty unpalatable bread, played on the 'slip n slide' and played bingo.

Oscar went to visit the University of Washington to see if it had changed much since he ran here years ago. I declined the opportunity to look at another athletics track and stayed local, visiting the local coffee shop. This part of Seattle reminds me of Brunswick full of fixie riding, beard growing, kale eating hipsters, although the ones here look a lot fitter, maybe it's the riding and walking. Speaking of walking, at the bottom of the street we're staying in is a set of stairs marked on maps as a fitness and recreation area. People come to walk or run the stairs, all ages and paces, one elderly woman told me she does one circuit up and down every day and has done so for decades. This confirms for me the blatantly obvious key to physical health - you just have to move! Oscar and I decided to do a stair workout (when in Rome), it was great but feeling a little sore today. This is the same set of stairs Ruby ascends to get to holiday camp, all 372 steps!