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More weekend stuff, whee
Today, I picked up my mom and stepdad nd sort of intended to go to Safeco for the stadium tour, except I'd forgotten one tiny detail... well, more like I'd forgotten 50,000 tiny details, which was approximately the number of people in the stadium area for the Seahawks game. Oops.
So we went down to the Museum of Flight and hung out there for most of the day. It was pretty cool and I think they both enjoyed it since they've worked in airplane inventory and supply jobs before. We got to walk through the original Air Force One and one of the Concorde planes and saw some cool WWII exhibits and some seaplanes and whatnot. There's a spectacular view of Mt. Rainier from the mock air traffic control tower in the museum, too.
Afterwards, I showed them Fremont. We went around the Fremont Sunday Market, and the topiary art by the canal, and saw the Rocket, and the Fremont Bridge go up, and the Center of the Universe sign, and we looked and listened to the Oktoberfest for a bit, and then I drove up the hill to the Troll, which had the requisite little kids climbing all over it and trying to stick themselves up its nose.
By that point it was about dinnertime, so we went over to Chinook's, where we met up with![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
eub (if somehow you are playing the home game and don't know this already, he's my ex-fiance), since my parents wanted to see him while they were in town. He was a little late due to drawbridge issues. We had a nice dinner and for once Chinook's actually got my request for "rare tuna steak" right. I think I'm finally getting oversaturated on seafood. Also, we ran into katybeth and pauldf and their friend Liz, who I think I met at a party a bazillion years ago. Everyone came over and chatted with my parents for a bit, so that was nice. Also, huckleberry ice cream is really awesome.
We stood outside talking for a while, as my mom and stepdad had to tell Eli all the details of the log cabin they're having built. It was chilly, and Eli was patient.
After that, I dropped the parent-people off at their hotel and came home, where I worked on my entry into the latest round of the Poetry Deathmatch, but honestly, Terza Rima is a tough form on such short notice, and I'm burned out after the whole weekend. After four hours I gave up and submitted what I had. I need to reset my brain and go to work tomorrow. And choir. Hopefully.
Also, I finally realized why I love the music from Chicago -- all the female vocals are in MY VOICE RANGE. There's never been anything else where I could just sing along to pretty much every single female vocal number without straining at all. That just rocks.
So we went down to the Museum of Flight and hung out there for most of the day. It was pretty cool and I think they both enjoyed it since they've worked in airplane inventory and supply jobs before. We got to walk through the original Air Force One and one of the Concorde planes and saw some cool WWII exhibits and some seaplanes and whatnot. There's a spectacular view of Mt. Rainier from the mock air traffic control tower in the museum, too.
Afterwards, I showed them Fremont. We went around the Fremont Sunday Market, and the topiary art by the canal, and saw the Rocket, and the Fremont Bridge go up, and the Center of the Universe sign, and we looked and listened to the Oktoberfest for a bit, and then I drove up the hill to the Troll, which had the requisite little kids climbing all over it and trying to stick themselves up its nose.
By that point it was about dinnertime, so we went over to Chinook's, where we met up with
eub (if somehow you are playing the home game and don't know this already, he's my ex-fiance), since my parents wanted to see him while they were in town. He was a little late due to drawbridge issues. We had a nice dinner and for once Chinook's actually got my request for "rare tuna steak" right. I think I'm finally getting oversaturated on seafood. Also, we ran into katybeth and pauldf and their friend Liz, who I think I met at a party a bazillion years ago. Everyone came over and chatted with my parents for a bit, so that was nice. Also, huckleberry ice cream is really awesome.We stood outside talking for a while, as my mom and stepdad had to tell Eli all the details of the log cabin they're having built. It was chilly, and Eli was patient.
After that, I dropped the parent-people off at their hotel and came home, where I worked on my entry into the latest round of the Poetry Deathmatch, but honestly, Terza Rima is a tough form on such short notice, and I'm burned out after the whole weekend. After four hours I gave up and submitted what I had. I need to reset my brain and go to work tomorrow. And choir. Hopefully.
Also, I finally realized why I love the music from Chicago -- all the female vocals are in MY VOICE RANGE. There's never been anything else where I could just sing along to pretty much every single female vocal number without straining at all. That just rocks.
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It's a creative contest being run tangent to an MMORPG called Puzzle Pirates, which I used to play too much. I think I'm probably eliminated this round, though.