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Mark says thank you to the birthday wishers!
We got back from our adventures. Rode the monorail, went to the top of the space needle, ate at the, um, I think it was called the West Lake Center? and then walked from there to the market on Pike Street. It was FABULOUS! It's as close to what I've thought the markets in Gondolin might have been like. And the multi-level part is extra fun.
Picked up cheesecake; may go back to get fish to make here later. Was funny -- there were some even-more-obvious tourists ahead of us, and they got to the first fish monger and stopped to take a picture and he says pretty loud 'whoa... fresh fish... oooooOOOOOoooo' while waving his hands in mock excitement over his head. It was ridiculously funny, and thankfully the other tourists had a good enough sense of humor to laugh -- one even mimicked him which only encouraged him.
It was quite a lot of fun. Found, at the bottom of the whole place, a used bookstore that smelled delightful and was floor to ceiling books, and just lovely since they were all categorized (correctly! oh -- had a moment at the airport when I saw magazines in an area marked 'general interest' that were very specific subjects, but I digress), but some were on the shelves neatly and others were piled up in little groups. There was a Tolkien pile almost right as we walked in -- haphazardly stacked about, though I had all but one version of all of them and held back on those. I did, however, find two books on Alexander the Great, plus a nice illustrated book on the marriage & sex customs of the ancient greeks. Ah, smut pottery. Anyhow... Mark made the comment as we were walking through the market about someday when we retire here we can stop by the market more often, and it was at the same time I was thinking, being born in Milwaukee I feel that really strong connection, but seeing the big cities I have seen (and I do think I'm more an outskirts of a big city person, but big city nonetheless) that if I had to pick without the preconceived notion of which one I was born in, after exactly 24 hours here, I'd go with Seattle with the current knowledge I have. This is, to be honest, the first city where I've thought, 'I could really seriously live here'.
I mean, they haz cheesecake. What else do I really need?
I like rain.
Okay, going to get ready for conference stuff, since it starts in an hour. Bye for now.
We got back from our adventures. Rode the monorail, went to the top of the space needle, ate at the, um, I think it was called the West Lake Center? and then walked from there to the market on Pike Street. It was FABULOUS! It's as close to what I've thought the markets in Gondolin might have been like. And the multi-level part is extra fun.
Picked up cheesecake; may go back to get fish to make here later. Was funny -- there were some even-more-obvious tourists ahead of us, and they got to the first fish monger and stopped to take a picture and he says pretty loud 'whoa... fresh fish... oooooOOOOOoooo' while waving his hands in mock excitement over his head. It was ridiculously funny, and thankfully the other tourists had a good enough sense of humor to laugh -- one even mimicked him which only encouraged him.
It was quite a lot of fun. Found, at the bottom of the whole place, a used bookstore that smelled delightful and was floor to ceiling books, and just lovely since they were all categorized (correctly! oh -- had a moment at the airport when I saw magazines in an area marked 'general interest' that were very specific subjects, but I digress), but some were on the shelves neatly and others were piled up in little groups. There was a Tolkien pile almost right as we walked in -- haphazardly stacked about, though I had all but one version of all of them and held back on those. I did, however, find two books on Alexander the Great, plus a nice illustrated book on the marriage & sex customs of the ancient greeks. Ah, smut pottery. Anyhow... Mark made the comment as we were walking through the market about someday when we retire here we can stop by the market more often, and it was at the same time I was thinking, being born in Milwaukee I feel that really strong connection, but seeing the big cities I have seen (and I do think I'm more an outskirts of a big city person, but big city nonetheless) that if I had to pick without the preconceived notion of which one I was born in, after exactly 24 hours here, I'd go with Seattle with the current knowledge I have. This is, to be honest, the first city where I've thought, 'I could really seriously live here'.
I mean, they haz cheesecake. What else do I really need?
I like rain.
Okay, going to get ready for conference stuff, since it starts in an hour. Bye for now.