Hiya!
Remember how we left off last Sunday (i.e. more than a week ago)? Well here’s what been going on… Monday morning I caught a bus North, out towards Bothell. Here I met up with Spencer, a friend I met in London just before leaving, who is friends with my English cousin’s American girlfriend… We hung out some and caught up and then drove to the Snoqualmie Falls, this epic waterfall right in the middle of the pines. So beautiful and so much mist! It’s about the height or taller than the Niagara Falls only not the width. We took some time to wander the gift shop and marvel at the ability of such places to sell completely unrelated objects including a very suggestive deer/lollipop combination. That night I was introduced to a Dairy Queen blizzard, the pre-cursor to the McFlurry and sooo much better!
Tuesday was slow during the day but in the evening I met a bunch of Spencer’s friend who were all amazing at the Pike Place Brewery right inside the market. I’d walked past it but didn’t realise down a flight of stairs there was a whole restaurant/bar and down another an entire brewery! The beer and food were great and from there we drove to Fremont to a bar called Tost (said ‘toast’) and we watched a girl sing and then this amazing guitarist who sang into his guitar and did al kinds of trippy stuff. Wednesday I moved out of the City Hostel and checked into a private room about a block away. So nice to have a whole room and bathroom! Needless to say I spent the afternoon/evening in watching numerous episodes of NCIS (that’s why Wednesday doesn’t get a whole paragraph).
Well rested I managed to do some washing on Thursday morning, this may seem insignificant to you but it was kind of vital at the time. In the afternoon I headed out to the Redhook Brewery in Woodinville, just North of Seattle, where Spencer gives tours. I met up with one of Spencer’s friends, David, who was also taking the tour. One of the other Redhook employees thought it would be nice to offer us some free beer before the tour and it was very much appreciated. The tour was really interesting and very entertaining and also every segment was punctuated with a new beer! We left the tour very happy. That night at the brewery was the first night of moonlight cinema so we were staying around to watch the movie. This meant having a number of hours to kill. Having enjoyed the tour so much we decided seeing as it was free (for us anyway) that we might as well take it again. This time we had a different tour guide with a more brutal approach to crowd control then Spencer. We enjoyed ourselves nonetheless. Also the movie was really fun, it was Step Brothers and I don’t remember much of the movie except that I was really excited it had Mary Steinberg in it.
The next morning I had to pack up my private my room and Spencer and I headed out to Whidbey Island. We caught a ferry, which reminded me a lot of the movie The Ring. Apparently that was because they were the same ferries used in the movie, hehe. Whidbey Island is where Kate (Dorian, Spencer’s friend’s mother, right?) lives and I was going to stay with her for a few nights.
The coolest thing about this however was that her guestroom is actually a teepee!!! With a fire in the middle and everything! Kate cooked an amazing bbq lunch and told us she had a friend who needed help with an errand. I assumed she needed heavy things lifted because what else would you need two young men for? When we get to this ladies house there are two cages with a total of six kittens in them. The
kittens were found under a house and were feral and needed socialising. This meant our ‘errand’ was holding kittens!!! A number of them! So cute! From the kittens we headed to Double Bluff, an awesome beach covered in drift wood and dead tree trunks. I should also note here that everything onWhidbey Island has the coolest name, like Forgotten Lane and others. We found an epic seesaw (or teeter-totter) that someone had made out of logs and a plank and we had super fun on it!
On Saturday and Sunday I explored the Island (Sunday I was accompanied by Kate and her grandson Gabriel who is a wizard and really sweet. Coupeville is a small town on the water and very old-worldy quaint. Langville is another town on the island and is a little artier and a little less touristy. The also have the koolest shop where they sell masks and magic wands and swords and leather bound books with eyes, oh my! Gabe really like lighthouses, so we visited one that was at the top of an old army barracks. I took Gabe up to the top and enjoyed counting the stairs on the way down, apparently 6 comes after 13… ? We finished up the day in the park and I spent my last night in the tepee. Oh I didn’t mention the amazing waterfront view from Kate’s house, spectacular!
Monday I headed back to the mainland and Spencer and I drove to this awesome tall bridge called Deception Pass. It’s actually two bridges built over these amazing rock/cliff structures.
Also down one of the bridge are these beaches covered in pebbles so we had a walk and looked at the pebbles and by the time we headed back the tide had risen and we had to walk in the really cold water to get back. It was a long drive out there but it was so amazing! That evening one of Spencer’s friend was having a birthday party so we attended and brought wine and… side story: Spencer’s mum (mom) went looking for vegemite for me and found it and then liked it when I made her try it, win for Australian culture! …vegemite. It was a really fun night made especially so by a balloon that if you tap it it sings ‘Happy Birthday’ in Mexican, which is feliz something.
Wow this is a big one… I’m exhausted.
Thursday was my last day in Seattle :(. It started well with an excellent breakfast with everyone who stayed at the party venue and then Inception on the Imax screen at the Seattle Centre(omg!) and then to the brewery again for more free beer, which flowed even more freely because we took a private tour because there were birthdays involved. I’m really glad I got to see the Space Needle and a bit of the city again before leaving but I also really enjoyed having some time away from cities on the island. I really enjoyed my time in the North West, so pretty and the people i met/caught up with were amazing! Spencer dropped me off at the airport on Tuesday night and I caught a flight to Boston… which is where I am now! Sleeping on a boat…
To Be Continued…
Josh…
1 comments:
Josh! I miss you! The tipi misses you! The kittens miss you! Come back soon.
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