Mom is in town

My mother is in town for a few days, basically to visit us (though she has taken a hotel room a few blocks away, rather than sleeping on our couch). There's been plenty of conversation, and today she came with us to the farmer's market (lots of berries), and after lunch we went to the Seattle Aquarium. That was fun: they have multiple touch pools (sea cucumbers were softer than I expected), an octopus that was clinging to the glass tank so what we saw was a broad, flat mass of suckers, and a nice jellyfish exhibit that you can walk under/through. Also seals and sea otters and birds.

I made fresh whipped cream after supper, to have with some of the strawberries; cattitude watched me, since he'd never whipped cream before. That was after a dinner of baked salmon and cherry tomatoes (fresh from the market) and pasta with fresh-grated parmesan cheese, which Mom decided to try, and liked: she'd only had the powdered-in-cans type before.

We haven't settled on plans for the next couple of days; the point of this visit is to see me and Cattitude, not Seattle, so sitting around my apartment drinking tea is entirely valid.