Pike's Market

The view down at Pike's Market this morning. I was supposed to hang out with Linda and her boyfriend, but I took off on my own. Had a nice eggs Benedict breakfast at a restaurant nearby, then took a walk at the market. Lots of fresh seafood, and the lobster and crab were yummy to look at. But, not something I could buy and take back on the train (LOL).

I did a little sightseeing and bought a few gifts to take home. Also added to my shot glass collection since I do not have one from Seattle.

The picture below is a nice piece of iron artwork in the lobby of the hotel I am staying at. I have to say, where we are, there are eating places and bars, each next door to one another. Like six or seven to a block. Also, aside from Starbucks everywhere, there are at least three other coffee places on every other block. I decided not to buy coffee here. It's the same as if I buy it in Los Angeles, anyway!

The Best Party In Seattle

I spent the afternoon with some friends of Linda from her early days in Los Angeles that have moved up here (the two girls, yes, they are a couple). This is their fabulous house, and they had about a dozen people over and we had all this incredible food and wine and tequila shots all afternoon. I made fast friends with everyone, and the girls (one works for Microsoft duh LOL) and when the found out how much music I had on this little puter, one brought out a portable hard drive and started downloading the crap out of my puter, till my battery finally died!

One of the guys there (the son of one of the older ladies my age, he was like a tad older than my daughter) went to college in Hawai'i and spent some time on the islands. He actually hates it there, is about 1/16 Hawai'ian and the rest Portuguese, and so they downloaded all the Hawai'ian songs so they could bug him. Of course the one girl is Mexican (lots of Spanish spoken today) and they (her mother and her) remembered me from all the parties I went to at Linda's parents' house off of Vermont Ave. and Washington, in Los Angeles. So, of course, they also downloaded all my Mexican and mariachi songs, but pretty much everything, like Frank Sinatra, my doowop, Journey, hard rock/heavy metal, zydeco, and a bunch of stuff. Speaking of zydeco (which is Louisiana music) when we got to talking about Katrina and New Orleans, they said the real damages were in Mississippi, and they downloaded some of those pictures from New Orleans, over 300 of them! I feel like I have actually been there.

After the afternoon we hooked up with the groom and Linda's ex Steve and his wife, Lisa, and other family for dinner (I had lobster) and then the "boys" went out for their bachelor night, and we old farts came back to the hotel. I am not sleepy by a long shot, got a nice bottle of wine, listening to my music with headset and blogging.

The girls whose house I took the above pictures are coming to L.A. in June, and we've already made arrangements to hang out at my place and do the Los Angeles thing.

Maybe we'll go over to the Criminal Minds set, and I can get a smooch from my new sweetie (LOL).

Seattle Is Cold In The Morning

I woke up early and realized I did not buy coffee to make in the morning. The room I am staying at has a kitchenette, but I got in at 8 p.m. last night and all we did was hit the bar! I definitely got wasted, but it was a fun way to end the evening.

So, woke up at 7 a.m., tried to go back to sleep, and couldn't, so got dressed, and this being Seattle, found an open coffee shop a block away. Got a triple espresso, and here I am, waking up!

It is cold. 38 degrees. I could see my breath, which doesn't happen too often in L.A. I'll be out and about the city today, so I will be taking pictures and keep you all abreast of the activities.

UPDATE (FEW MINUTES AGO): Silly me, there's fucking Starbucks coffee in my damn room next to the COFFEE MACHINE. Ha ha ha. Oh well!