The Jedi and
I woke up around seven, showered, packed the room, and loaded the van. We
checked out of the hotel and headed over to the light rail station. The Jedi
made it as far as the light rail station, and then realized he was still
feeling rather poorly.
We sat down
and did a quick google map search for a public library nearby where the Jedi
could go sit, read, work on characters for a game, take a nap in the van if he
needed to….etc. Finding one a few blocks away that was open till 5, the Jedi
reluctantly agreed that he needed another day of rest.
I hopped on
the light rail by myself and found my way to Tia’s apartment without any
trouble. Go me.
We hung out
for a bit there, she showed me some “So You Think You Can Dance” videos, and
Sweetling finished packing up her stuff. By that time, it was nearly lunch, so
we headed downstairs to Vahn’s (sp?), which Tia said was practically her second
living room, since she and the Programmer ate there so often. I had a huge
salmon salad, Sweetling had two large slices of a huge sourdough pizza, and
while Boybot was curious about just what the Monster Burger Challenge was, in
the end, he ordered a classic bacon hamburger.
After taking
Sweetling’s leftovers back up to the apartment, we walked the mile and a half
to one of Tia’s favorite parks….a sculpture park on the waterfront.
And then we
walked a little further to a second park, where I was hoping to be able to see
some seals on the rocky shore line. There were no seals, but there was an
opportunity to collect rocks and shells.
Another
short walk back to a city street, where Tia called for a ride in an Uber car to
our next destination, the tallest building in Seattle, the Columbia Tower. We
headed up to the observation deck for a bird’s eye view of the city.
It was just
a bit too cloudy to see the mountains clearly, but it was still a nice view.
Back on the
ground, we walked the few blocks back to Tia’s, where we had big and yummy
cookies and a tasty meat and cheese plate that Tia “threw together” for us. I
have to put that in quotes, because even what she “throws together” has such a
great balance of flavors and textures. My thrown together plates are a couple
packets of Aldi’s lunch meats and pre-sliced cheeses with a box of triscuit
crackers and a sleeve of Ritz crackers. Two cracker types make it fancy. If I’m
going really high brow, I’ll slice a cucumber, put a bag of carrot sticks and a
bottle of ranch on the table too. A bag of Aldi’s grapes just puts the whole
thing over the top. Tia’s plate was three different type of gourmet cheeses, high
end salami, broushetta, another meat that I love that I never heard of, slices
of fresh peaches, and two little bowls of farm jams….strawberry&red pepper
and whatever the local Washington berry is called. Oh, all served on a proper round wooden
cheese platter.
While we
three girls sat at the table and munched and chatted, Boybot and the Programmer
raced in a computer game and then crushed some poor unsuspecting opponent in
HearthStone.
The rest of
our afternoon passed all too swiftly, and soon it was time to gather up, give a
few last hugs, and begin walking through the Seattle mist to the train station.
On the ride
back to SeaTac, we were blessed by a beautiful rainbow. Since I was feeling
pretty teary eyed, this was a very welcome pick-me-up.
We rejoined
the Jedi, and was on the road to Portland in pretty short order. Dinner was
Subway, eaten in the van on the road. The original goal was to hit Portland by
nine or nine-thirty, but an accident in Tacoma had two lanes of I-5 south shut
down, so I don’t know what our new ETA is.
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