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I was the UGLIEST GIRL in Wenatchee, Washington
Well, I guess I should have EXPECTED to get delayed? 8:15am flight is now "maybe" departing at 10am. Goddamnit I forgot how much I hate this part of the Seattle->SF thing.
Anyway, so Sunday started off with lunch at Ivar's, and then we took the bus downtown. I stopped off in the Mariners team store (where there were, as always, Japanese tourists) and got an Iwakuma #18 t-shirt. Thought about getting a Munerin one too but they only had it in XL and XXL and that won't fly anymore, plus I still feel silly for not getting one from when he was with the Hawks.
Then we went to see Damn Yankees at the 5th Avenue Theater. Bizarrely I just realized this marks the 10th anniversary of last time I saw it (the May 2002 production at the Walnut Street Theater in Philly), but I guess I've gotten a little more jaded about musicals since then, since my opinion this time around was basically that this show starts off strong and then really just kinda falls on its face. The scenes with the baseball players are great and I thought they did a good job with all the dancing numbers, but just as before I just find the entire goody-two-shoes plotline with Joe and his wife to be unbelievable. (I even commented to Carl after the show how a lot of the storylines have not changed significantly since the 1950's -- Washington DC even has a team again AND lots of people would still sell their soul to defeat the Yankees -- but the one storyline that is truly no longer believable IMO is that a hot young 22-year-old rookie baseball player would be faithful to his 45-year-old wife, especially when confronted with someone like Lola.)
Whatever, their sets were FANTASTIC, I was really impressed by how they handled a lot of the "special effects" in this musical too. And they added a few little Seattle baseball shoutouts, like Gloria doing an Ichiro imitation and then when Applegate is introducing Joe to the team during his tryout and Joe is hitting homeruns left and right, he yells "GET OUT THE RYE AND MUSTARD, IT'S GONNA BE A GRAND SALAMI!"
Afterwards I took a bus out to Redmond so I could help my team apply for the Wartron game, except, I literally arrived JUST as they finished their final puzzle. Oops. I feel bad, but I had bought these tickets to Damn Yankees back at Thanksgiving, before I'd even moved to San Francisco or heard about Wartron. So... yeah. But the team managed to get into the 12th slot out of 20, so that was good. I hear the application process was pretty hellish for a lot of teams because the site kept going down. Christine is leading this one, not me, though we called the team Lavacatipu (because Christine and Jon and Greg played their last two events as "Lava Hoedown" and the other half of the team is me and Lahut and Mike from Liboncatipu)
So instead I hung out to help talk about logistics and stuff instead, and share puzzle hunt stories and whatnot.
Eventually I took the bus back to Ballard, met up with Carl at Cupcake Royale, and came home.
Of course, we woke up at like 5:30 so I could get to the airport for this stupid 8:15 flight which is now never ever going to depart. SO tired. I wonder if I could somehow nap here and not miss my flight.
Anyway, so Sunday started off with lunch at Ivar's, and then we took the bus downtown. I stopped off in the Mariners team store (where there were, as always, Japanese tourists) and got an Iwakuma #18 t-shirt. Thought about getting a Munerin one too but they only had it in XL and XXL and that won't fly anymore, plus I still feel silly for not getting one from when he was with the Hawks.
Then we went to see Damn Yankees at the 5th Avenue Theater. Bizarrely I just realized this marks the 10th anniversary of last time I saw it (the May 2002 production at the Walnut Street Theater in Philly), but I guess I've gotten a little more jaded about musicals since then, since my opinion this time around was basically that this show starts off strong and then really just kinda falls on its face. The scenes with the baseball players are great and I thought they did a good job with all the dancing numbers, but just as before I just find the entire goody-two-shoes plotline with Joe and his wife to be unbelievable. (I even commented to Carl after the show how a lot of the storylines have not changed significantly since the 1950's -- Washington DC even has a team again AND lots of people would still sell their soul to defeat the Yankees -- but the one storyline that is truly no longer believable IMO is that a hot young 22-year-old rookie baseball player would be faithful to his 45-year-old wife, especially when confronted with someone like Lola.)
Whatever, their sets were FANTASTIC, I was really impressed by how they handled a lot of the "special effects" in this musical too. And they added a few little Seattle baseball shoutouts, like Gloria doing an Ichiro imitation and then when Applegate is introducing Joe to the team during his tryout and Joe is hitting homeruns left and right, he yells "GET OUT THE RYE AND MUSTARD, IT'S GONNA BE A GRAND SALAMI!"
Afterwards I took a bus out to Redmond so I could help my team apply for the Wartron game, except, I literally arrived JUST as they finished their final puzzle. Oops. I feel bad, but I had bought these tickets to Damn Yankees back at Thanksgiving, before I'd even moved to San Francisco or heard about Wartron. So... yeah. But the team managed to get into the 12th slot out of 20, so that was good. I hear the application process was pretty hellish for a lot of teams because the site kept going down. Christine is leading this one, not me, though we called the team Lavacatipu (because Christine and Jon and Greg played their last two events as "Lava Hoedown" and the other half of the team is me and Lahut and Mike from Liboncatipu)
So instead I hung out to help talk about logistics and stuff instead, and share puzzle hunt stories and whatnot.
Eventually I took the bus back to Ballard, met up with Carl at Cupcake Royale, and came home.
Of course, we woke up at like 5:30 so I could get to the airport for this stupid 8:15 flight which is now never ever going to depart. SO tired. I wonder if I could somehow nap here and not miss my flight.
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