There's the Space Needle! IT'S REALLY SEATTLE!!!!
My two and a half days in Seattle were pretty much exactly like the movie. For example, remember the scene with the troll under the bridge?
Been there. Done. That.
The one holding the car is the troll.
Or they part where they play paintball?
It's set in Gas Works Park, which in real life doesn't have paintball (unfortunately).
Here is a super flattering photo of me there.
Oh my god, also, remember the part where they go to that party and Kat gets drunk and dances on the table but then she hits her head while dancing so Heath Ledger takes her outside and they sit on the swings and she goes "hey, your eyes have a little green in them" and then she baaaaaarfs?
That sort of happened to me too! Except it wasn't a party, it was me and Evan meeting up with a couple he's friends with for drinks. And instead of sitting on swings after drinking a zillion beers, we went back to our hotel. The part where Heath Ledger strokes Kat's hair tenderly after she upchucks didn't happen to me either. I woke up three times during the night to puke and Evan slept through all of it like a rock. THREE TIMES. Man, sleepless in Seattle, amirite?
All in all it was a really nice trip. Here are some more photos!
Riding the monorail
The idea was that you had time it just right so that you
took the picture at the exact moment the seal whooshed by.
It's clear who the better photographer is.
Below and at the top of the Space Needle
Some sweet views
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I wish you all could have been here on my birthday. Of course, I don't actually feel sorry for myself, since last year I was pretty damn spoiled and had the best birthday ever! But I did miss everyone.
Still, my birthday was wonderful. We had a lazy day with great presents. Evan got me this book and a box of 64 crayons (sort of a joke gift but sort of not, since I really did want them) and a really nice watch. We had an amazingly delicious dinner at Screen Door, which is the southern restaurant right down the street that serves the mindblowing praline-bacon waffle I mentioned in my first post. For dessert, Evan baked a birthday cake!
Making sure there is a good amount of spit in the icing
CAAAAAKE!
I guess I have to explain that Nanner (or Lil' Nanner. I know, I know) is a pet name that he started using after finding out about 'Eliana Banana'. Anyway, the cake was deeeee-lish! And since there's only two of us, we ate it for like 5 days. Plus I got some fantabulous gifts in the mail over the course of those days. 23 is going to be awesome! Unless you listen to Blink 182.
Nobody likes you when you're tweeeeenty-three!
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If I'd blogged sooner, the first thing I would have mentioned was ROLLER DERBY! Last month we went to see the Rose City Rollers 2011 opener scramble (4 Portland teams playing each other). IT WAS FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC.
My roller derby face
Also, it means 4 teams' worth of roller derby names! Some of them were lame, but here are my faves:
Harriet the Sly
Minstrel Psycho (took Evan a while to get this one)
Napoleon Blownapart
Firecrotch
She-Rex
The Blast Unicorn
Twat Rocket
Shove Me Tender
Frisky Sour
Domesticated Violence
Tits n Assphalt
I hope I get to go to another game before I leave. The atmosphere is great. At first you're just sitting there trying to figure out the rules and stuff, but before you know it you're on the edge of your seat yelling "GO GO GOOOOOOO!" to the underdog. It's a beautiful thing.
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Last bit of news: I'm most likely coming home mid-next-month. Makes me both happy and sad. Any plans after that are still up in the air, but one thing's for sure: WE ARE GONNA PAR-TAYYYYYYY!!!!
Terrible hangover
