The floating bakery

We’ve been talking about creating a floating bakery on Lake Union.

“Maybe we can build it on top of two canoes,” Simone suggests.

“We’d like to it move about Lake Union and Lake Washington, ” the girls explain, “and we’ll need a place to display the baked goods, so people know what things we have.”

The background to this is that we spent a great deal of time on paddle boards last summer, and we would have loved a spot to get a glass of lemonade and a crêpe.  The girls started with the idea of a “lemonade stand,” but then we all had big “aha” moments and started to imagine how fun it would be if it could be a restaurant, a performance space, a place for kids to make art.  You name it, and yes, let’s do that too.

A pop-up “curated” art exhibit and…

“Now and then, friends could paddle over with supplies,” said Simone.  “Or maybe we should tie up to a dock so that we could serve both water folks and land folks.”

“Hmmm.” Simone is thinking. “An awning is necessary,” she says. “At least over the cash register and the muffins.”

“Could we simplify it?  Maybe a Mekong Riverboat?” I ask.

“Not so much.”  Says Simone. “You see, Mama, we really need a kitchen and a place for other boats to dock-up so they can put their order in at our little window.”

Not that we need to go crazy with the design…but “Mom, maybe we need to think a little bigger.”

Do come by the floating bakery…when we get it figured out.