Whaddup peoples! Thought id get one more in before the new year since christmas is now over (thank the Lord).  Been busy workin, doin volunteer work, and doin christmas shoppin for er body's stuff.  i was to start workin in my daughters kindergarten class but somethin happened earlier in the month to her teacher's daughter that landed her in the hospital for most of the month and as a result the hot teacher is now on FMLA for the rest of the year.  As a result the status of that volunteering is unknown till the beginning of the school again when i can ask the new teacher.  Still work the school store and thats still fun.

 

We ended up stayin at the Sheraton Hotel the weekend of the 15th for a Breakfast w/Santa event they have thats sponsored by a charity.  We were up on the 24th flr wit a great view of 6th av downtown. That saturday we left to go down to Family Fun Center in Tukwila and have a lil fun there.  Kids had a blast playin all the games in the bldg, even my mom got down on some machine where you put a coin in and it cascades down to the bottom like plinko and when it hits the bottom this slide machine pushes it towards others and you "hope" they slide off the cliff resulting in a stack of tickets! well she fed and fed and fed and fed that machine hahhahahaah ended up wit 1814 tickets though!  when all was said and done there were a lil over 4k tickets to divvy out btwn 4 outta 5 grandkids.  they picked out their ripoff toys and we pushed on.  Wifey and my mom back to auburn to get dress clothes for the pics the next day and me my dad and the kids back up to seattle.  We get up there and traffic is HORRIBLE off seneca and 6th av.  Theres cops everywhere directing traffic cause its that holiday scramble.  Well on our way out i had seen the Louis Vuitton store and we were a block away from it so i told my dad i was hoppin out.  Well of course 4 of the kids wanted to come wit me suddenly so now i have the brat pack in tow.  We (legally) cross the street and make our way down to the store while my dad is still in traffic.  Before gettin in the store i advise'em straight up dont touch NOTHIN. Look around the store lookin for somethin hot for my wifey and i see very nice stuff but the cheapest purse they had was $500 for the brwn/gold pattern and $800 for the colored! i was like sheesh dont you have a clearanced section?? lol  even hankerchiefs were $159!  Well i got the info i needed (which was that she wasnt gettin one THAT weekend! Big daddy gotta go work some OT first!) We go out the door and head back up the street and my dad had made it maybe 5 carlinks up the street! so we were like coo lets go get back in! but he had cleared the intersection and although traffic was stopped it was more feasible to jump in vs use the crosswalk then weave into the 2nd lane (out of 3 lanes) to get in the truck.  I peep the scene all safe to j-walk so i tell the kids hurry up run and lets get in the truck. no sooner do we cross lane 1 at the truck i hear this loud authoritive HEY!!!! HEY WHAT DO YOU THINK YOURE DOIN??!!! I turn and it this short heavyset black woman in a uniform barkin at me.  Kids are already in the SUV and im door ajar in psngr seat.  "THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS TAKE THE KIDS BY THE HAND IF YOU GONNA J-WALK! GOT THE KIDS ALL RUNNIN OUT IN THE STREETS!"  i gave her a look like i was about to light into er, you do NOT know me. but on the baseball style hat she was wearin was the freakin shield... Seattle PD.  ugh.  tensions immediately subsided there was nothin i could do to her but let this round go.  Im carryin a weapon in the camera bag 1/2 around my neck and all i need is for this cop to give me further problems then try to claim i was gettin figitey. I say "aight then sorry" as im closin the door still seein her mutterin some ish as shes goin back to her depressing job of waving cars in/out of parking garages to further snarl traffic. We FINALLY get back to the hotel and we're all hungry so we hoof it down the street a few blocks to McDonalds, get some food and hoof it back.  Seein a beggar on the streets (looked legit not your clean shaven nice shoes wearin ones in south king county off freeways) i gave him what i could find in my planner and continued on wit the caravan of kids.  Back in the hotel we partook of the fruits of our walk, watched some ultimate fighting, cops, the rerun fight of the last floyd mayweather fight then when the wives finally returned headed back to our room.  Next day for the santa breakfast they served an awesome catered chef style breakfast they performed a nutcraker ballet rendition took some pics and we bounced!