Last Thursday Kristina, Courtney, Aspen and I hit the road in my little car headed towards Seattle. The plan was to drive to Boise (since we were leaving at 7pm) and stay with a cousin, but she flaked on us and we ended up grabbing a last minute hotel where we crashed for the night before heading on to Seattle from there.
As soon as we got into Seattle we hurried and spruced ourselves up (Court and Aspen make it look so easy after a 9 hour drive), and then headed over to David and Jerremy's house (which is right by Lake Washington so he has an amazing view!) where we climbed up on the roof to meet David's bees and see the beehive, and then went out for Sushi. After Sushi he drove us around a bit in order to show us where the light rail station was in Tukwila, and then we took Courtney to her very first adult novelty store. Poor 16 year old Aspen had to wait outside.
That night we went back to the hotel room and hung out for a little bit before crashing. Poor Aspen got really sick in the middle of the night and threw up all over... Seeing as both her and Courtney (who were sharing a bed) are super heavy sleepers
(and Aspen is even a sleepwalker) she slept through throwing up and Courtney slept through being thrown up on... I don't think I'll ever forget waking up to the smell of vomit and hearing Court squealing "Aspen I hate you! IT'S IN MY HAIR!" followed by lots of laughter... They stripped the bed, showered off, and we prayed the maids would come soon...
Since Aspen wasn't feeling well, she opted to stay at the hotel and try and get some more sleep the next day. We dropped by David and Jerremy's to pick up our papers we'd left. Jerremy wasn't feeling well either, and David was working, so we took off to try and find the light rail station again (we got horribly lost) and head into the city. There was no parking, so we parked at a grocery store and walked down-which we were then told we'd probably be towed so we stressed about it the whole time we were in the city. All we did in the city was check out a tattoo parlor (which wanted a minimum of $100 each so we skipped it) then went down to have lunch at Piroshky Piroshki in Pike Place Market for a quick lunch before deciding to head back to the car, and then back to the hotel to pick up Aspen.
After we grabbed Aspen (and relaxed a bit in the room since it had been cleaned), we went and got our tattoos. I wrote about this yesterday, so if you missed it, read the post HERE. The tattooing took a good 4 hours (from the time we got there, waited for the tattooer to get back from the bank, and then waited for him to design the tattoos) and so by the time we were done we went back to David and Jerremy's and they drove us into Capitol Hill (the gay district) to have dinner at Lil Woody's, which was the second best burger I've ever had. (Second only to the Kobe Beef Burger at the Rogue Brewery in San Francisco.)
After dinner they drove us up to Queen Anne Hill to see the "Frazier view" of Seattle, and it was beautiful. Also, it was freezing! When we were done gawking at the gorgeous view we went to Dick's for milkshakes, and then headed home exhausted.
See part 2 of this trip HERE.
