Chimeric Dream

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Washington: Days 4-10 (Compact Version)

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

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