So I'm back at the house chowing down on a chicken fettucini dish, with a glass of the most amazing cheap white wine (ever). Something you guys may be shocked to find out, but I am really getting into cooking. I've discovered that my quiet, lonely nights here in the apartment are less quiet and lonely if I make myself dinner and the microwave doesn't cut it anymore. I think this chicken fettucini dish is like the 8th or 9th new recipe I've tried my hand at recently. True, it's from a box, but the chicken I did on my own and I embellished it with a mixture of random spices until it tasted like I wanted to.
My day was really good. For the first time in a long time I was able to explore the wonderful city of Seattle with a partner in crime. Here is my partner in crime:
Now, I don't have all the pictures uploaded yet, so a few may come later, but I do have the first half of the day on my iPhoto.
Rachel and I (that's still kinda weird to say), started our mini-adventure around 10. I took Mosby, who thought the drive was dull, to pick her up at campus. We then hopped over and checked out Jack Block Park which is a nice, reclusive, "in the know" park neighboring the docks and overlooking downtown Seattle.
We then grabbed a cup of Clam Chowder and ate it on driftwood, washed ashore on Alki Beach.
Haha, there is a picture of me but since it didn't pass my inspection - too bad so sad. Just a picture of Rachel, er, the other one.
After dumping Mosby (who was quite devastated), we waited for what seemed like FOREVER for the Water Taxi. I have a wonderful picture of what we nibbled on while we waiting, but for some reason it's floating in particles between my phone and my email - so that will come later. Lets just say it's a comical photo of a jar of peanut butter, a cup of blackberry tea .... on top of a fish-gut slab on a dock :D ...peanut butter and cup of blackberry tea curtesy of Rachel who thought to think ahead and bring a backpack ready for a semi-picnic. Knew there was a reason why I liked her.
We finally crossed the water on the Taxi. And I have a picture of that, but the stolen internet connection at the house doesn't like me right now. We got to the dock right as the Bainbridge Island ferry was about to leave, so I made Rachel run! And ......the minute we got to the gate they shut it and we watched it set sail. D'oh! Rachel wasn't too happy that I made her run for nothing hehehe.
So we did something crazy. We took the next available ferry to.....*drumroll* Bremerton. Kyle, you might know this place as it's a Navy base. It was actually a nice trip - it was almost an hour one way and we spent the entire time on the observation deck, watching the black water roll by and the seagulls ride the currents.
We docked and immediately set out to explore Bremerton! We were excited! We were adventurous! We found pretty much nothing.
The Naval museum was closed for a two week renovation. But we did highly enjoy and amuse ourselves with their elaborate water fountain and granite statue japanese gardens. They were quite impressive. I have a few pics, but again....*sigh* they will have to wait. After we finally got tired of playing on the pieces of art (haha) we took off to explore and found Bremerton to be almost a ghost town on a Saturday afternoon. I guess everyone takes off for Seattle, and I can see why. The coolest things we found to do was a tour of an art gallery, a visit to the Pyrex museum (that is indeed correct, I can now say that I have been to a museum dedicated completely to that wonderful phenomena, Pyrex) and a puppet museum (which was actually a little cool. They had a Jesus puppet. I had fun with that.).
We started getting hungry and decided a snack was due. We almost got sucked into an artsy fartsy super expensive coffee shop for lack of a better choice, but seran wrapped sandwhiches just didn't seem so appetizing. Lucky for us, I was rude to the lady behind the counter and told her I changed my mind and we ended up wandering around some more. That's when we stumbled across a tiny, hole in the wall European Fry joint that serves only two things: beer and french fries. For a sweet $4 we got a huge heeping cone of fries and chowed down on those, dipping them into a variety of customary sauces.
That's when we heard the horn and made it back in time to catch the ferry returning to Seattle. After watching the sea lions play around the buoys and the endless stream of jellyfish pass by, we got into a conversation with two men from New York who were part of touring production of Oklahoma and a flamboyant guy from Maui on his way to Canada and spent the next 30 minutes sharing our outrageous experiences of living in the south. It was a nice conversation amongst strangers.
This is where the adventure ends. We got back, bummed around the waterfront docks and then took the water taxi back across. I dropped Rachel off, returned home, made my dinner and sat down at the laptop.
I'm happy to see you guys have your own blogs now :) I have them both bookmarked. And way to go Kyle, how UNORIGINAL is that name!? : P Dad, you however get bonus points because that is freaking hilarious.
Well I think I need to shower. Rachel and I are going to church tomorrow and then will spend the entire day in the library making up for the homework we could have done today :P I think the day out and about was worth it. I feel rejuvenated for this next week, which is good because the first week of school has been hectic, confusing and very pressuring, it was nice to get out and laugh and be goofy. It will be needed too, monday starts my first full week what with PT officially kicking off *sigh*.
PT makes me seeeeexyyyyy.
I'm not familiar with that Naval base, but theres a good reason why. See, I'm Naval AVIATION, as opposed to my tin-can operating boatswains-mate cousins. Its actually quite interested the more I realize how devided the Navy is into two equal halves.
ReplyDeleteOn one side you have the Naval Aviators, who's domains are air strips and helipads. On shore we work standard hours and at the end go home.
Then on the other side you have the Seafarers, who live, work, eat, sleep, bathe, masturbate, giggle, stink, breathe and go crazy on their ships. Even in port they spend days on end in their little vessels.
Oh, and then there's the 'cool older brother' SEALs and EOD's, who hang out with their girlfriends wearing Oaklies and driving expensive cars, all the while pretending we don't exist because we're to embarrassing to be seen around in public.
Anyways, that was a long post (and a long day) you had there, but it was nice to read. Also, use bigger pictures next time, those first two were pointless. :P
Sounds like a fun day with someone new and interesting!!
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