Delayed Seattle Post

While trying to come up with an excuse for why this post is so post-poned (pun intended), the best thing I could thing of was.... jetlag? JET....LAG. 

Here is the part where I recap the trip and dump some photos. 

Tried to sleep the night before but it didn't really work out... Got up at 2AM to drive to portland to catch a 3:00AM bus to Boston to catch a 6AM plane to Chicago. Blasted out on time to Chicago where I caught my connecting flight to Sea-tac airport where I landed at about 11:00AM west coast time (longest morning ever). Took a train that looked slightly like an orca whale to meet up with the one and only Allie Holcombe. Hooray! 

It was nice to see Allie even if I was dead tired and kind of loopy. Ended up seeing where she works and I even got a business card, a legitimate Allie Holcombe business card. I was impressed. Anyways, met up with Ian later that evening after a dinner at red robin in the mall. 

Ian had to work part of the next day but then we went out plane hunting at this place called Future of Flight across from the Boeing factory. We also went on a tour of the factory which was SUPER cool but we were not allowed to take pictures because factory secrets and stuff.... Anyways. 

Above is Antonov-124 which is a huge russian plane for lifting heavy things! This was chilling next to this runway for some reason next to the future of flight place. Also off in the distance in the upper left is where all those grounded Boeing 787's are chilling out because of that battery thing..... Lots of planes on the other side of the runway in various states of repair.

That night I got to meet Ian's other windmill buddy, Brian who now works at Boeing and does space arduino stuff, cool guy. We hung out at this Brewry until they kicked us out. The next day we got up and went out to drive around the city and do more cool stuff. 

Yes Ian, we can all see the Space Needle, it's right there.

 Walked around at this place called gasworks park which had beautiful views of the city skyline as well as lake union. Lots of house boat visible from the park too, next time I go visit hopefully I will be loaded and can rent one. It would be amazing to rent one for a week and hang out with a bunch of buddies while being tourists there. Some day guys, some day.

Kicking off the theme of Ian and I doing romantic things together, we enjoyed a long walk on the beach. We also took pictures of each other with our eyes closed.

Actually I have more pictures with Ian's eyes closed than open from the trip.

Hey looks it's almost sorta kinda the pacific ocean. Note: Looks warmer out then it actually was.

Spotted a bunch of VW buses parked and on the road, also saw a pretty rare VW single cab in semi-rough shape. We ate like champions the entire trip sampling eggs benedict, drinking hipster coffee and feasting on mongolian food (Tyler you would love it). On this particular day we ate at this fish and chips place where an old school Volvo that had been converted to electric was parked out front. Apparently it was the same restaurant where they filmed After The Catch, then we drove around toward the tallest point in the city.

This thing!

 Before scaling the beast that is the space needle, we explored some of the finer things. There is this sweet place called the Chihuly Gardens which was amazing and totally beautiful. Before going in we were berated by a bunch of protestors, apparently upset about some "promises" that the garden wasn't fulfilling. They tried to tell us it wasn't worth the money.... They were wrong.

That is probably the best picture I took but my camera honestly couldn't do the stuff justice. The place featured enormous pieces of colorful hand blow glass, that was jaw droppingly cool. Ian and I had fun trying to figure out how some of them even stayed together. Definitely a must-see place if you are being a tourist in Seattle. Not to mention, you get a "deal" if you go to the garden and the space needle all in one day. 

Hey, no one's eyes are closed!

Got a picture from atop the space needle. It was a beautiful day and you could see the mountains on all sides as well as lake union and the city. Picked a prime time to visit as I was told it was probably the best day they'd had in a long long time. 

At some point along the trip I pointed out that I'd never been to a Jack in the Box so of course we HAD to go. Have to say I was not really impressed with Jack in the Box at all, it was so middle of the road I don't even know what to say about it. It was fast food, plain and simple. A secondary objective of my trip became to assist Ian in making his apartment not look like a..... uh well.... to make it look less like his side of the room from junior year. He didn't have much on the walls, so in an effort to add some more flavor to the place we made a one of a kind piece of art.

That's right, we framed the nutrition facts from Jack in the Box. Hey, we signed it. It is legit art. 

We also went to Ikea, which was a first to me. It was pretty sweet and has a restaurant in the middle of it. It's huge and we got lost and bought good shit. There was also an electric car charging station.

Oh and we went sailing with DW!

Saw Bill Gate's yacht too. It has a helicopter pad, just in case.

 Also spotted this sweet ride outside the center for wooden boats. Like a boss.

That basically concluded my adventures in seattle. Had a good time just hanging with Ian and eating like a goddamned king. Had a pretty rough ride home as I was pretty sick and had a runny nose and pretty terrible sinus pressure. Would not recommend riding across country with a cold. 

Solid trip, next time maybe I'll get to bring some more friends and we can rock out in a house boat. 

The end!