{"id":138,"date":"2007-09-11T09:43:17","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T15:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/uncategorized\/friday-8312007-minneapolis-to-seattle\/"},"modified":"2012-08-21T08:41:37","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T14:41:37","slug":"friday-8312007-minneapolis-to-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/rt\/seattle-for-bumbershoot\/friday-8312007-minneapolis-to-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Minneapolis -> Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matt and I arrived at the airport around 2pm, cleared security, and paid a visit to Granddaddy’s Bar, a tradition that makes every flight more tolerable. We giggled at Skymall for three hours, and arrived at Sea-Tac around 6pm. Steve and Colleen were waiting to sweep us away to their apartment overlooking downtown Seattle.<\/p>\n

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\nseaplanes fly very close to their rooftop.<\/em><\/p>\n

We had cocktails on the roof of their building, then headed to Mama’s Mexican Kitchen<\/a> for dinner. We dined in the Elvis room in back.<\/p>\n

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We went to a bar called Shorty’s<\/a> for drinks and pinball, then hung out in the back room for a while because it had the awesomest bar stools I’d ever seen. We couldn’t even sit in them because they were full, but even looking at them was way too exciting. Our bar will definitely have pimp chairs such as those.<\/p>\n

We moved along to the NiteLite, a place that was disturbingly empty for a bar around midnight, but they had cheap drinks and a standalone naked ladies game I couldn’t figure out how to play. We had a round of shots and Long Islands, and when Steve went back for another round, he was denied. The old lady behind the bar told him there was a limit of one per person (even though they’d given him another, just not an entire round). He told me that I should try to get others at the bar, but we were denied again. Incensed that we’d been cut off (and not even from drinking, just from one beverage in particular), we decided to go elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere was the Whisky Bar, mostly because we liked the name. We did not indulge, thankfully (Matt and I had water), and we had some discussion about the fact they were playing Bon Jovi’s Runaway<\/em>, although we don’t remember what we were debating, exactly.<\/p>\n

We decided to take the bus home, except it never really worked out that way. We definitely stood at the bus stop for a while, then started walking. Eventually, Matt and Colleen became trapped in a cabinet we found outside a restaurant.<\/p>\n

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After that, we ran though sprinklers outside a building, and all ended up with very wet pants. Which is not terribly comfortable when you still have several blocks to walk, dudes. Remember that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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