Our weekend in Seattle was excellent.
At the last minute, someone from couchsurfing came through for us and we had somewhere to stay in the University District. We both left work early Friday only to miss the bus, get stuck at a drawbridge, then miss our train to Seattle. After $80 and a phone call to Amtrak we were booked on the next one. With the time we had to kill we ate at Vegetarian House which, I think we’ve concluded, will be our last time there. (Good food, but mysterious stomach pains!)
Our host made us feel welcome and the pull out couch was perfect. For my first experience couchsurfing I was really happy. (We probably saved like $200 in hotel costs!) She lived near bus lines and neat places to eat near The University of Washington. One of these places included the Wayward Cafe where we had breakfast Saturday morning. Perfect blend of vegan, healthy food and grunge.
The rest of Saturday was comprised of heading downtown, walking through the Pike Place Market, seeing the Space Needle (but not going inside, of course… too many families in line), getting tipsy on the lawn west of the Space Needle with a six pack bought from a Kwik E Mart (one of 11 dressed up 7-11’s to promote The Simpsons movie), taking a nap in the Kobe Terrace Park, trespassing and theft, eating at Vegetarian Bistro and then listening to some disappointing dnb at a club in Capitol Hill (I don’t understand… their mp3s are pretty good…).
Sunday we took our host to brunch at Flowers (omg, so good) and then we went back downtown to see the Experience Music Project and the Science Fiction Museum.
We probably got back to Portland around 9pm, which left enough time for pizza and beer in NW before getting a bus home.
PS - Kittens are still killing us.
So yo. I swear I have too much to write and never enough time.
Yesterday on our day off the BG and I rode our motorcycles to Mt Hood and saw the Timberline Lodge. It was MUCH warmer than the last time we went. (Like… 50 degrees warmer.) On the road up Mt Hood to the lodge there were all these little butterflies everywhere. I hit probably eight of them and yellow guts were everywhere on my gear and helmet. Nice.
We also spent *zero* time planning for our upcoming trip to Seattle this weekend. We leave tomorrow, have nowhere to stay and little idea of what we’ll be doing. But we’ll figure it out! I could care less if we slept under a bridge, as long as we’re together. :)
Other things that are going on include me having a major revisit from heart palpitations. I was getting them a few years go, intermittently, but two Wednesdays ago I started having them non-stop, which is beginning to concern me. I went to the doctor Monday and (of course) had none while I was there. But I’ll be using the Holter monitor for 24 hours (I did this before but nothing really came of it) to see if there’s something wrong.
Really. Annoying.
Geico is ready to settle the claim with me and has decided to give me $750 for my pain and suffering.
We’re planning on seeing the Ashes to Ashes B-boy competition with some friends on the 21st, then partying with said friends the following weekend as well. :D
My dad is going to cancel his trip the weekend the BG and I will be visiting, which is awesome. (Though I feel bad that he has to do that… just a little, hehe.)
The kittens are getting bigger, but not enough to not be slowly killing us all, still.
No http://frekur.com/blog/2007/06/13/stress/Hot Fuzz.
Jay lives in the room next to me but I feel like we keep missing each other. Earlier, he was questioning what the latest on the motorcycle situation was and mentioned that he hadn’t talked to me in a week. (But we livvvvvvvveeeeeeeeee together!) Sheesh.
I <3 the Flying Jay.
Too exhausted from everything else going on, tonight I viewed kittens and some One Tree Hill episodes. (Shit, people, the finale was tonight!)
(I don’t know how the hell Jay can sleep when all this cuteness is going on underneath his bed.)
