Since it’s been so long, and I really don’t remember all the details anymore, here are the notes I made for myself about the rest of my vacation. They are in pretty rough form, but they serve their purpose well enough. Perhaps at some point I’ll come through and clean it up a bit.

Day 4

  • Sea Fair
    • Looked like a military recruitment camp
  • Saw hydroplane races
    • Just missed a crash
  • Saw Blue Angels
    • Camera died towards the end
    • Still got some good pics
  • Went to Fry’s
    • Got 1TB external HDD
  • Drove around Renton
    • People going to the park were in our way, and we couldn’t drive down the road we needed to get home
    • Wound up driving around
  • Watched TV with Dad
  • Watched Men in Tights before bed

Day 5

  • Went to the office
  • Played the “hurry up and wait” game
  • officially got offered the job
    • turned it down in favor of staying a contractor

Day 6

  • went into office again
    • still didn’t get much work
    • went home early
  • went to the pool
  • relaxed and worked on website a bit
  • spaghetti for dinner

Day 7

  • rode bus into seattle
    • first time by myself
  • went to emp/sfm
    • cool guitar sculpture
    • lots of interesting stuff in both sides
  • went to aquarium
    • school groups
  • went to art museum
    • got pounced on for taking a pic
  • ate at same hot dog stand

Day 8

  • relaxed all day
  • worked on website some
    • added some ajax for admin stuff
  • went to pool for a couple hours
  • made meatloaf for dinner with dad

Day 9

  • went into seattle with dad
  • went to space needle
  • went to science center
    • dark knight was sold out at imax
    • dad didn’t want to drive back for the 10pm show
  • finally found something nice for becca
  • went to dinner with ron
    • seafood place
    • tried king crab
      • pretty good
    • had a good burger
  • took one of the last buses back home
  • watched the last half of the olympic opening ceremony while packing before bed

Day 10

  • up early (7am)
  • at airport by 8:30
  • first flight at 10am
    • no free wifi… bored sitting in terminal
  • flight left 20 mins late… and i have a connecting flight with a 1 hour layover to start with
    • made up some time in the air
    • had just enough time to grab lunch before second flight
  • phoenix to get to kc from seattle… oy
  • landed at 6:30pm (only ~6 hours flight time total)
  • isabel and becca picked me up
  • went to mom & dad’s to change for swing
  • went to swing
  • home early… very long day