Today we went to eat donuts at Mighty-O Donuts that I mentioned we had last weekend at the Folklife Festival. Their donuts are cake-like, which I think I prefer over the other kind of donut. I got the French Toast and Cinnamon Sugar and Troy got the Topless Chocolate (basically a devil's food donut without any icing) and a regular glazed. I especially liked my French Toast donut. We'll have to go back again and get some different flavors next time.

After that, we decided to go see some short films that are playing at the Seattle International Film Festival, which runs from May 21 to June 14. SIFF is the largest film festival in the US. This year there are over "268 features and 124 shorts from 62 countries over 25 days, with 31 World Premieres, 45 North American Premieres, and 13 US Premieres." So we walked to the SIFF Cinema in the Seattle Center to see "The World of Possibilities", which is a series of 8 unrelated short films. Here is a summary of the package according to the SIFF website:

The challenges of life around the globe are illuminated with fascinating portraits of people and places in pursuit of personal goals.

We were asked to rate each short film and somehow our ratings affect which ones eventually get nominated for the Academy Awards. Most of the short films were under 15 minutes long and were very interesting. We especially liked one called Andong, a story about a young Filipino boy who's obsessed with watching tv and begs his mother to give him 20 pesos in order to buy a lottery ticket, for which the prize is a color tv. The story follows the boy's attempts to find money and his troubles with his younger brother. It's a really cute movie.

A few of the other short films were unimpressive, and one had pretty bad dialogue, but overall it was very entertaining and I'm glad we were able to see some independent movies during the SIFF. On the way home, we stopped by QFC to buy a few groceries, including filet mignon steaks, potatoes, and asparagus for lunch tomorrow.

After dinner, we went rollerblading at Alki beach, which was really nice. The weather was great all day, with highs in the 70s, but it was especially nice once it started to cool off around 7, which is when we went rollerblading. It was pretty cool seeing the beautiful Seattle skyline while rollerblading too. I'm looking forward to eating our nice steak lunch tomorrow.