Sea-Tac!

First of all...did you know that SeaTac is an actual CITY? It's not just the name of an airport. That was my "eureka" moment of the vacay.

Yes! I was in Seattle last weekend...visiting my BFFFFFFFFFFsssss. I'm so glad I have friends that live in such a nifty city. Seattle is one of my favorites. In fact, I tried to convince Tim to apply to several grad schools in the Northwest; to no avail.

Michelle, Maddie, Amanda, Emme, Annie, and myself tromped all around the city. We squeezed so many activities in such a small amount of time, that I can't even remember all of them. Thankfully, Maddie has already documented our activities in writing. Also thankfully, I have no qualms about straight up plagiarizing both our activities list, as well as the following pictures which came from Maddie's camera. :)

Toulouse Petite late night happy hour straight from the airport • Wild Mountain Cafe for brunch • Green Lake walk • Pike Place Market for tea and donuts • Espresso, often • Ballard Ave. shops • Bastille for pre-dinner cocktails • Tarasco for beer and pool while waiting for dinner • Delancey for wood-fire pizza and wine • maybe back to Tarasco for karaoke, where we made K. Perry proud • Molly Moon's for a couple of pints (of ice cream) • lots of Nyquil • Emmer & Rye for brunch • Gas Works Park • University Village for Starbucks and shopping • take-out Thai food and Step Up 3 • Portage Bay Cafe for brunch • Golden Gardens • ...and back to Sea-Tac for a sad goodbye...

Gasworks Park

It was exceedingly windy here. Thankfully we were at times distracted by a group of men and women all clad in short red dresses and skirts. We thought it might perhaps be a Valentines celebration; but it was quite the contrary. From what I understand, the group is Seattle's own Hash House Harriers; a drinking/running club. Should you care to learn more--or for those living in Seattle--should you care the join : here's more info.

In front of the Public Market, although our kind photographer missed the sign slightly...

Maddie. She drinks espresso now. Which is awesome.

Steve was delicious

Oh how I love this commercial. There's an even shorter version on TV which is even better.

Early Spring?

Punxsutawney Phil predicted an early spring this year. I'm here to say that he got it wrong. As I sit here in my kitchen, I'm watching inches of snow hit the ground. The ground that is already covered with inches of snow from the last storm; which ended yesterday. Blanche was caked under about 2 inches of ice. Sheer ice that made my knuckles bleed when my frostbitten hands slipped off the ice-scraper and skidded up and down my windshield. Not Cool.

I'm also here to say that if Phil keeps predicting the weather wrong, I'm siding with PETA and their quest to change Punxsutawney Phil into an animatronic groundhog.

Phil

Phil Again

Just kidding. Phil is so cute! And apparently, immortal. He is given a dose of "groundhog punch" every summer which is meant to extend his life for seven years. I want to know what's in the punch, patent that ish, and then save lives!