Yesterday was hot. Feels like winter has lasted seven months here. But yesterday I walked around all day and well into the evening in a sleeveless shirt. Stood on the deck of the ferry with no hat, scarf, or gloves. It was glorious!
And unlike as with a sunny day in SF, there was no massive bank of freezing fog rolling in at 5:00 to spoil it all.
We headed to Seattle for lunch with ludickid and kudaspeaks at Blue Moon Burgers, which is in South Lake Union. After eating we walked to this park-like thing on the lake, which was actually kind of sad and gritty, but we did see a whole bunch of turtles, a few large beautiful ships, and I bought a kickass ruby-red 22 oz Nalgene water bottle that has the logo for the Center for Wooden Boats on the side. YES!!
After that there was more iced coffee to drink at Uptown Espresso, and then Brian and I went off to buy him some cargo pants. We met up with the gang again at Kuda’s deluxe apartment in the sky, which is situated on First Hill just east of I-5. They have a rather spectacular view, especially from the roof, where we glimpsed a distant peek at part of the upper deck at Safeco, while simultaneously watching the game live on the communal flatscreen TV. Woo!
Dinner was fancy baloney sandwiches (no really, they were fabulous), homemade brownies, croissants with key lime marmalade, and diet coke. Oh and one sip of small-batch gin.
It was a lovely Saturday. Today is overcast again, but it’s okay, still nursing that cold and hope to be closer to 100% by tomorrow.
Hey! It was great to see you guys; I’m glad you came out. It’s been too long.
I think I caught your cold. Which is my own fault for making you drink that gin.
I am long past the point of contagion, so surely you didn’t catch MY cold!
I hope it’s just a traveling bug because this cold sux.
It was great to see you too and next time you be sure to come out to our neck of the (literal) woods.
I think I kinda sorta almost semi-caught your cold, only I don’t know for sure because the guy who hosted my crash-pad (and the big EMP rockcrit nerd party) also had some crud happening. Not that it matters, because any cold-related malaise on my part has been completely overshadowed by the hellish stinging pain in the right side of my entire head thanks to a particularly bad toothache. (This is also not your fault.)
Blue Moon is such a great burger joint. The guys at my office complain about how long the walk is down there from where we work, but I think it’s worth it.
Your dinner sounds lovely, by the way!