Seattle and PAX

corey    Games, News    

(For some reason I’m not in a writing mood, so the following blog will be short short-ish).

Our week long trip to Seattle went pretty well. It rained the first few days we were there, but it wasn’t very cold. It was raining during our sea kayak tour but it was still a blast. In this picture you can see Cheryl and I at Friday Harbor [picture], on San Juan Island, where we did our kayaking.

We headed down to Oregon on Thursday; it was a nice drive, and not very long at all (3 hours or so). After visiting the beach at Seaside we headed to Cheryl’s Aunt’s house to meet up with her relatives for dinner. A little bit overwhelming for me, but all-in-all it was a good time. (Like I’m very social in “crowds” of people I don’t know anyways, but I guess these aren’t people “I don’t know” any longer).

Since we were in a hotel right downtown we had easy access to the Seattle Aquarium and Pike Place Market, not to mention lots of different places to eat. (Seattle has a great assortment of Asian restaurant, I’m so jealous!). The hotel didn’t have any air conditioning so it got rather warm in our 8th floor room during the day, but since it never got over 80 it wasn’t so bad.

Friday morning Cheryl and I went to the Museum of Flight at Boeing Field, including a quick walk-through of an old Air Force One. Pretty cool place, almost as cool as the one in DC.

Jeremy flew in on Friday afternoon, so we headed to the Experience Music Project (and the SciFi Experience) which was pretty fun. Lots of interesting music paraphernalia and trivia. The SciFi part was a bit more interesting simply because I knew more about the subject.

Jeremy and I showed up for PAX at about 10am on Saturday morning, we figured we didn’t want to go very early so we wouldn’t have to stand in line. Boy were we wrong. There were two lines already, each going halfway around the block! It took us until 11:30 to get inside (including a short Starbucks hop) and boy was it crowded in there too.

While PAX had it’s moments, most of the time I found myself trying to find something to do/see. With so many people (something like 3000?) it was very very crowded and everything was occupied. We were lucky to get into the first panel in the theater Saturday morning, everything after that required standing in line for 1 or more hours. I was really looking forward to the musical performances (as was everyone else it seems) but there was no way I was going to stand in line for 3 hours! We did get in to the Penny Arcade Q&A on Sunday morning which was interesting and funny, but we left after that. Hopefully next year will be a lot better (bigger venue, larger theater please!). I missed the Red vs Blue showing/Q&A, but Jeremy made it. Hopefully the PAX DVD will have that session on it!

Since Cheryl was sick when we went through EMP, we didn’t make the Space Needle that night. We had already bought the tickets for it with our EMP passes so we went up on Sunday night. It was getting rather cold at that point, but it was a very nice view. Didn’t really get any good pictures, but I combined two pictures I took of Cheryl in front of the Space Needle [picture] and it turned out ok.

And that was that. Cheryl and I flew home Monday afternoon and were back at work the following day. I will say that I really like Seattle. I didn’t even mind driving our rental around downtown; maybe Denver is good training for driving around a larger, busier city.

Our next vacation: Maybe a short trip back to Ouray on Thanksgiving? After that, how about Brazil?

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