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2007 A new Year and a new Road Trip

Sunday, January 07, 2007

Now we are into the new year. I had 2 days of work this last week, these were planning session days where everyone sits down in their respective specialities and then plan what needs to be accomplished within the next 6 months etc. Enough of the work - now onto the fun. Yesterday we decided we would head for a road trip to Seattle, Washington for the day. Attendees of this trip were:

Space Needle rising above Seattle
Once into the city we decided to grab some food at a resteraunt right below the space needle. That was one good burger I had there - and out of the 3 of us I was the only one who could finish the feast. From there we decided to hit the mean streets, we purchased a monorail ticket (3 months in Vancouver I havent been on the sky train, yet 1 hour in Seattle and I was onto theirs) and made our way further downtown. The waitress at the resteraunt said we should check out the big market down on the water front, thus that was our destination. The Seattle Space Needle

The entrance to the monorail

On the otherside of the Yellow Line

The entrance to the public market - there was a tonne of things in their, mainly seafood.

After our venture into the market I wanted to see Elliott bay and Elliotts resteraunt, just because it has the same name as I do. Once we made our way down to the water front we looked to our left and saw QWest stadium (Seahawks Stadium - NFL Football) and wanted to check that out. As it was game day we knew their would be tailgate parties, however I had no idea how hardcore they were. Each stall had a truck and at the end of the bed was a tent and under the tent were 2-3 BBQs, TVs, Stereo Systems, beers and seahawk fans. To think , we were SO close to purchasing tickets for this game - it was a cracker too...Cowboys fumble a field goal attempt with 1 min to go to lose the match - uugh. Me outside of Elliott's Oyster House
Safeco Field - It is here that the Seattle Mariners play ball (MLB) Outside of QWest Field_1 Outside of QWest Field_2

Following the venture downtown to the stadiums we made our way back up through the older portion of the city and back to the space needle where we begun. At this needle there was a musem of music (EMP - Experience Music Project). Part of the tour was that we got to get up onto stage with all the instruments and sing/play a tune. "Brian and the Mean Street Band" rocked it out to Wild Thing. Brian the Gunner was on Lead Vocals and keyboard, the hammer was heading up guitar while Mr Joe Dirt rocked the drums. As part of the experience they took a picture of us on stage - unfortunately I dont have an electronic version of this poster. For those 3 minutes we were absolute rockstars.

After we had gotten out of the city and drove all the way home it was about 10pm when we got in. Planning for numerous other road trips within the near future might begin shortly, along with numerous sporting events aswell.

With a new year comes me saying that I am going to attempt to post more often, I say that but it doesn't always happen (I shall try though).
Until later, R

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