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[ateolf]

Stupid computer being a bastard. Started my post and it locked up. Beginning again.

Our venture to the Pacific Northwest went off pretty much without a hitch. I'll start from the beginning and see what I can recall. We left last Monday, grabbing some sandwiches from Kwik Chek to eat on our layover. We got into Seattle at night. Got our rental car. Checked into our hotel a little out of town. Went into the city to a whiskey bar (Cannon something-or-other). Tuesday was our full Seattle-day. I'll have to fill in some blanks later 'cuz I can't remember what/where we ate for breakfast. I dropped Mary Beth off at Pike Street Market and did what I had been longing for in Seattle: Wall of Sound (a really damn awesome record store). It's a small place, but what they've got is solid. I'll go into all the fun details of the way-too-much money I spent there later. The guy who works there (and most likely owns it) was really nice and talked to me about a bunch of the stuff I was buying. He even got excited and went over to show me something else at one point. He gave me one of their t-shirts for free since I bought so much stuff. For lunch we went to Paseo for some pork sandwiches. We took 'em down a bit and ate 'em. We walked around and stumbled on the WSU University of Washington bookstore which we mostly went inside to use the bathroom, but turned out to be pretty awesome with some deals on good stuff. They had a bunch of Dalkey stuff I couldn't resist. We drove around. Got a little lost on the hill around Ballard, made it to a pirate bar. I really dug the feel of Seattle. I don't know what I thought it would be like, but it somehow defied my expectations. We didn't spend much time there, but I think it may be one of my more favoriter cities. Later we went around to West Seattle. We looked a little at the beach, then tried to find this neighborhood we had dinner reservations at. It was kinda quaint. We parked next to some bookstore. After a while we went in and I got one book, which I will relate later. Dinner was at this fried chicken/whiskey/noodles place. We had the chicken with its excellent excellent sauces. I also had an amazing root beer (Crater Lake, I think it was called). Then it was getting dark and night and stuff. To end our full day in Seattle, we drove around to different neighborhoods (there are a lot of neat areas in this town). I remember a coffee shop. I'm sure we went to a bar. Anyway, more will come in another post.

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[p0tat0es.livejournal.com]

I wish I'd known you'd be in town (I live a ten minute walk away from Wall of Sound). I would have loved to have said hi in person finally. Sounds like you packed a lot in in a day.

[ateolf.livejournal.com]

I saw Bauhaus (as it's next to Wall of Sound obviously) and thought of you and was kicking myself in my head for spacing on contacting you before that. And we were in town such a short time. But I thought Seattle and Portland were both pretty awesome.