Birthday Weekend
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evila_elfOkay, since I am sitting here with nothing to do, I guess I will give a small update about what I did last weekend.
June 25th is mine and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
michelleann68 (and daasgrrl)'s birthday. I always go up to Seattle to visit with Michelle for the weekend close to the 25th.
I picked her up in Olympia on Friday at her work...almost missed a turn because there was construction!!...and she drove us to Seattle. She was going to be participating in the Rock 'N Roll half Marathon the next day, so we stopped off to get her racing packet and poke around at the Expo (yay, free stuff). We were thinking about going to a movie after, but there wasn't any time.
We went to a concert, Glitter and be Gay, by the Seattle Men and Women's chorus.
Wasn't near as entertaining as the Christmas concert last year, but they had two parts that totally made it worth it. First, they performed Sweeney Todd inFive Six Minutes. It was hilarious! Wish there was a vid online of it!
The other part was...uugh, I can't remember her name, but she did this Opera-like number that was very annoying at first, but so over the top that I actually started to enjoy it after awhile. Maybe Michelle can help out if she sees this?
Plan to see the Men's Winter concert in December :D
Next day, Saturday, Michelle had to get up super early, like 4am, to get ready for the race. I was going to meet her around the finish. She gave me all these options to get there, but I preferred to walk (easiest instructions: Walk down to first, take a left and keep walking). Took me 45 minutes (well, closer to an hour, since I found a bench and read for about 10 minutes. I left early because I couldn't focus on doing anything else. I am one of those fashionably early people lol).
Found a tree and a patch of relatively clean pavement to camp at until I got the call from her giving me her location, then I wandered to the finish line and found a non-crowded spot by the 13 mile marker (half marathon was 13.1 miles). Paparazzi'ed a pic of her by the mile marker :D
After that, we went to get my car, back by her apartment (we took public transportation, this time) and went to Alki Beach, wheregin200168 was at. Michelle chilled out on a log and the sun came out for the first time that day while Gin showed me around the beach and I tried not to slip and kill myself. Tons of jellyfish that missed the tide as well as little pools of fish by the rocks. We joined Michelle for a few minutes on the log, just enough for me to get a little sunburn (sigh) and then went for lunch at Spuds (YAY homemade french fries :D).
Then we went to The Yellow Leaf to get some cupcakes for a movie party that evening. (I think I just fell in love with their Cinnamon Roll cupcake! They have over 100 flavors and make like 17 different ones a day. If you are in Seattle, check them out!)
Gin came over and also Michelle's carpool friend later that day to watch The Trotski (trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtU7ERJ3cTw). It was so much funnier than I thought it was going to be. Really enjoyed it. I want to show it to Mom (any excuse to see it again), but I think she would find the subject not as interesting and there was a fair bit of swearing. Hmmm...
Sunday was the Pride Parade. Going to post that, as well as a ton of pictures, in another post shortly. *goes to look for digital camera*
June 25th is mine and
michelleann68 (and daasgrrl)'s birthday. I always go up to Seattle to visit with Michelle for the weekend close to the 25th.I picked her up in Olympia on Friday at her work...almost missed a turn because there was construction!!...and she drove us to Seattle. She was going to be participating in the Rock 'N Roll half Marathon the next day, so we stopped off to get her racing packet and poke around at the Expo (yay, free stuff). We were thinking about going to a movie after, but there wasn't any time.
We went to a concert, Glitter and be Gay, by the Seattle Men and Women's chorus.
Wasn't near as entertaining as the Christmas concert last year, but they had two parts that totally made it worth it. First, they performed Sweeney Todd in
The other part was...uugh, I can't remember her name, but she did this Opera-like number that was very annoying at first, but so over the top that I actually started to enjoy it after awhile. Maybe Michelle can help out if she sees this?
Plan to see the Men's Winter concert in December :D
Next day, Saturday, Michelle had to get up super early, like 4am, to get ready for the race. I was going to meet her around the finish. She gave me all these options to get there, but I preferred to walk (easiest instructions: Walk down to first, take a left and keep walking). Took me 45 minutes (well, closer to an hour, since I found a bench and read for about 10 minutes. I left early because I couldn't focus on doing anything else. I am one of those fashionably early people lol).
Found a tree and a patch of relatively clean pavement to camp at until I got the call from her giving me her location, then I wandered to the finish line and found a non-crowded spot by the 13 mile marker (half marathon was 13.1 miles). Paparazzi'ed a pic of her by the mile marker :D
After that, we went to get my car, back by her apartment (we took public transportation, this time) and went to Alki Beach, where
gin200168 was at. Michelle chilled out on a log and the sun came out for the first time that day while Gin showed me around the beach and I tried not to slip and kill myself. Tons of jellyfish that missed the tide as well as little pools of fish by the rocks. We joined Michelle for a few minutes on the log, just enough for me to get a little sunburn (sigh) and then went for lunch at Spuds (YAY homemade french fries :D).Then we went to The Yellow Leaf to get some cupcakes for a movie party that evening. (I think I just fell in love with their Cinnamon Roll cupcake! They have over 100 flavors and make like 17 different ones a day. If you are in Seattle, check them out!)
Gin came over and also Michelle's carpool friend later that day to watch The Trotski (trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtU7ERJ3cTw). It was so much funnier than I thought it was going to be. Really enjoyed it. I want to show it to Mom (any excuse to see it again), but I think she would find the subject not as interesting and there was a fair bit of swearing. Hmmm...
Sunday was the Pride Parade. Going to post that, as well as a ton of pictures, in another post shortly. *goes to look for digital camera*
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Date: 2010-07-08 03:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-08 03:53 am (UTC)So far, the only place you can get the movie is from Amazon on demand..so that not work. I'll let you know if I can track down a different way to watch :) I really want to see it again, but don't want to spend 6 bucks just to rent it for 3 days.