For those of you who have never been to Seattle, I highly recommend it. Kathryn and I were the ultimate tourists starting bright and early Saturday morning and not stopping until she dropped me off on Monday morning at the airport. I'd like to say that we saw Seattle from land, air and sea.
On land, we walked everywhere! Starting from her cute little apartment (which I'm quite jealous of) all the way downtown to where they have the most Victorian buildings in a square of about 20 blocks. We also saw everything in between. We went to the fish market where they let me hold a crab!!
We drank tea at the original starbucks, and I was even talked into buying jam from some cute vendor guy. We ate the world's best mac and cheese, saw a statue of a Russian dictator, saw a troll under a bridge and ate Pho!
Needless to say that when we finally fell into bed at night it didn't take long for us to pass out! And I got to see the U of Washington campus which is absolutely beautiful and while I will always love Purdue, it would have been nice to have amazingly huge buildings of beautiful architecture and a football statium looking out over a lake. We also did one of those bus/boat tours when the bus actually drives right into the water and turns into a boat!!
That was when I decided I wanted to live in a floating house on Lake Union. Our driver was a little quirky but that just made it all the more interesting!
Now, we didn't actually fly over Seattle to see it by air (well, I guess I did to get there but that's beside the point) but we did go the top of Smith Tower which is a really tall building downtown that actually has a caged in deck on the 35th floor that you can walk out onto. We happened to choose the windiest day ever to do this so it did feel like we were flying! And I'm pretty sure if we had a fear of heights before that adventure, we conquered it that day! And we found out that people actually live in the point of the Smith tower and that's when I decided to live there (notice a trend?)!!
Other random things: we met a guy who was trying to find himself by getting people's e-mail addresses to send them a website link that didn't exist yet. If you just read that sentence and said "huh?" then you're pretty much in the same boat G-spach and I were in. We just smiled and backed out of the cheese shop he found us in (but not before I gave him my old purdue e-mail address b/c who am I to judge someone's way of finding themselves?). We also are pretty sure we saw some ballet dancers and what could only be there bodyguard. We followed them around for awhile…on purpose or on accident we're pretty sure we're on the bodyguard's hit list.The theme of the weekend though I'd have to say was car trouble!! It all started when Kathryn picked me up at the airport and in the 30 seconds it took me to get into her car, a cop knocked on the window to tell her that the tags on her car had expired. Well it was her roommates car and I can only describe the inside of it as Colleen, Goody and my room senior year at it's worst multiplied by 50. So Kathryn kindly thanked him for the information and tried to end the conversation right there but unfortunately he wanted to see licence and registration and all that other stuff. Thankfully the seattle police were on an off night and since they were taking to long, he let us off with a warning.
Later in the weekend, we rented a flex car (which is actually a great concept where you can rent cars that are parked around the city for a few hours or days at a time). Unfortunately, there was a slight mix up and we ended up at the wrong car. Then when we got that sorted out, we did out adventure and came back to find that someone was parked in the spot we're supposed to leave the car in! So we let them a "friendly reminder" as the flex car company calls it which pretty much says "listen up bitchass, we're towing your car b/c you were such an idiot. Maybe you'll know better in the future."
When I got back to Detroit on Monday night I got to my car and got in only to find that the driver's side door wouldn't latch shut. Now, I live 2 hours from the Detroit airport and as strong as I like to think my arms are, they aren't strong enough to hold the door closed while steering with my other arm for that long. So I drove to the closest decent sized town looking for someplace open 24 hours. I finally found a walgreens and of couse they were closed but a lady outside of it had an elastic thing in her truck that she gave to me and came to help me fix my car. Of course as soon as that happened, the door decided to latch making me look like a huge idiot or possibly some person who was actually hoping to rob a walgreens while carryng around her laptop that she was too afraid to leave in the car. Ugh, what a night!!
But now I'm back in Midland and enjoying a few nights in my own bed until Friday when I pack up and leave for Houston! I figure if Dow gives me 5 free flights to Texas a year, I might as well use them when it's bitter cold in Michigan and I know Nat loves visitors!!
Happy Valentine's Day to everyone!! I love you all!!
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