Wednesday, June 24, 2009

TypHos Take Seattle

People! I have actual internet now (as well as actual cable) as opposed to the bootleg internet(*cough cough* and cable *cough cough*) I've been using for the past three years. It's kinda nice. Especially since I'm able to Google Daniel Craig images ad nauseum. See!

^my personal favorite

It's also given me a chance to toss together a rough draft, a'la Anners, for Joders' US Invasion. She's seriously going to be bigger than the Beatles! And thus, Jesus.

Now, I must admit something. I've been to Seattle proper, like, a total of four times. So, we'll learn together!!

First up: The Space Needle! Now, depending on what time we fly into Sea-Tac from LA, we can hit the Space Needle first. There we can get something to eat and head up to the observation deck where we can take in a 360 degree view of Seattle. Now, if you want to visit during the day and then again at night to get a different perspective, they sell admission tix that will allow visits for that purpose. And afterward, we can hustle on over the Seattle Center, which is right by the Needle and houses some awesome museums. The hours vary by attraction, so if it's late we can put that off until the next day and head on over to Pike Place Market instead. There, they throw salmon around, which has earned them PETA's wrath lately. I've never seen it myself, but I hear it's truly cool and a must see.

The next day we can take in the waterfront and the underground Seattle tour. Each tour lasts an hour and a half. Beware of lots of stairs and uneven surfaces. After that, we can take in the rest of Pioneer Square, which is the center of Seattle history. There's the Seattle Police museum and Klondike Gold Rush historic park which tells the story of those who came through during their search for gold.

If you're interested, there's also the Seattle Aquarium and tons of higher end shops along the waterfront where we can look at all the pretty, pretty clothes and be snubbed Pretty Woman style. To be honest, I'm sort of looking forward to be snubbed Pretty Woman style.

Now we get to the final day of your visit to the great Northwest. This day we can head down to Mount St. Helens, which is about a four to five hour drive. Maybe even less since it'll be on a weekday. How far up we can go depends on how severe the winter has been. Since it'll be November, it shouldn't be too bad. However, if the weather turns out to be horrid, we can always jet on up to Canada, a country I enjoy immensely. If we head up to Victoria, BC, there's plenty of wineries, museums, and even fricken castles to tour!

And as you can see, Eva totally thinks November is going to be a blast!

Feel free to add/delete/suggest anything from now until the day I leave for LA. I haven't decided what day that is just yet, but when I know, you guys will be the first to hear!

P.S.: While looking for an awesome pic of Eva Green to illustrate what I'm truly feeling right now, I came across these gems:

I know it's just an effect from the flash, but Eva looks incredibly high,
thus making me incredibly jealous.

I hate Vogue for making my favorite actress pose in such a manner
THIS PICTURE EXISTS!!!! Milla Jovovich and Eva Green, people!!!
Two of the possibly coolest people to ever have walked this Earth! I die.

22 comments:

Joders said...

Bigger than the Beatles and thus Jesus? Jesus, that is big!! I've got a lot to live up to. I hope you're not too disappointed :)

This sounds like too. much. bloody. fun! The two (hopefully three) of us rattling around Seattle with no real clue of where we're going. That's what overseas travel is all about!

I cannot wait to get to the top of the Space Needle! I cannot wait for the Underground Tour! I need to stop using an exclamation mark at the end of all my sentences!

If we end up going to Canada and Anners is with us (hopefully :D) we need to make sure she has the right documents to get in and out of Canada. I don't even know if Anners has a passport?? Of course if she does, it's all good.

Also, now would probably be a good time to tell you that my flight to NY leaves Seattle at 11:30pm on the Tuesday night. I tried for a Wednesday morning flight but they were double the cost. Those that were slightly less expensive didn't get me in until partway through Thanksgiving Day. Sorry. I hope that doesn't muck things up :(

Anners said...

Sweetness. I'll be back to comment after I've tiortured my bod @ the gym.

Mrs. M. said...

i dont know if you have seen these, but just in case you havent i think youd like them:
http://home.frognet.net/~mcfadden/evu/Ellen_von_Unwerth_Eva_Green.htm

http://home.frognet.net/~mcfadden/evu/Ellen_von_Unwerth_Eva_Galliano.htm

http://home.frognet.net/~mcfadden/evu/Ellen_von_Unwerth_Eva_Contro_Eva.htm

Anners said...

Mt. St. Helens FTW!

Eva on the ocver of Vogue: Ouch!

Eva & Milla: Awesome bytches.

I hope I can go to Seattle.

Anonymous said...

I'm still jealous that all you peeps get to meet up :(

Miss World

Daners Isadora- Bond Girl said...

Anners, I hope you can come too!! How was the gym?

Aw, Joders!!! Tues night?! I has a sad. Well, it's cool. We can work around that.

And it might actually be 4 of us. Afers is supposed to come, too.

I'm going to Seattle Weds, so I'll scope these places out and post some pics.

Mrs. M, you are lovely :)

Miss World!! I've missed you?! Where hast thou been? I wish you could join us, too, but did you hear that Joders and I are maybe hitting Europe next year which hopefully means we can raid your house!

Joders said...

We've got all day Tuesday - I don't need to be at the airport until an hour before my flight (which is 11:30pm). We can just start the day before the crack of dawn :)

I forgot Afers wants to come too! This is brilliant! Four of us (you, Anners, Wanda and me) in LA, four of us (you, Afers, Anners and me) in Seattle and me and the Rizzuto's in NY!

Bloody hell, I forgot about Europe as well! I'm gonna need to win the lottery to pay for all this travel :D

Daners Isadora- Bond Girl said...

Okay, you'll be the walking dead by the time I drop you off for your flight then because you'll have been up for so long.

I'm gonna have to put in some buku OT to pay for Europe, but I so want o do it! It's the main reason I got my passport earlier this year!

We are so gonna have a blast

Daners Isadora- Bond Girl said...

Mrs. M, I seriously love you for those pic, btw. I just got a chance to go through them all and I am so in awe of Eva! She's so fucking fierce it's unbelievable. When I grow up, I want to be Eva Green

Anonymous said...

Yay! You ladies can totes come and raid my house! I still wish I could have came to America though, you guys are going to have a ball!

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I will win the lotto/strike oil/hook up with a millionaire (preferably Johnny Depp, but beggars can't be choosers) before November so I can join you.

Side-note: Can you guys believe Michael Jackson is dead?! I'm in fecking shock. Part of my child-hood just died and I has a serious sad. I realise that may sound a tad dramatic, but its true.

Miss World

Anners said...

* Miss World, I has a serious sad about MJ, too. :(

* How sweet is Mrs.M by the way?

* Where in Europe are y'all going too?

Daners Isadora- Bond Girl said...

Mrs. M is darling!

I dunno, Joders mentioned it a couple days back and we asked if you wanted to come too! You should. We can all be broke and fabulous in Europe.

I seriously didn't believe it about MJ, you guys. I received a text telling me and I was like "No, way." Whatever criminal troubles he may have had, he still was a terrific performer and he invented The Lean, you guys! How frecking cool was that?! I've been watching MJ vids all morning

Anners said...

Seriously! Show MJ some respect you phucking wretched people!! You know how many fights I had with friends about this the past few days? Too many.

If you guys may go to Turkey, I am totes there. :)

Daners Isadora- Bond Girl said...

Tell me about it! I've loved MJ as a performer since I was a wee kid. I don't have to respect the man, but dammit I can certainly respect the performer. I used to step on sidewalks hoping they'd light up like in Billie Jean when the video first came out., MJ is certainly a legend.

Ooo, Turkey! I've been to Greece, it's only fair I go to Turkey, too! I wanna see Turkey!

jentheobscure said...

Psst! Seattle Art Museum. Downtown. First Avenue. University Street.

Never mind, that's too middle school field trip, isn't it?

Daners Isadora- Bond Girl said...

Dude, I would totally go. I'm all about middle school field trippiness. (Google wishes me to change trippiness to nippiness. I had no idea nippiness was a real word, but I plan to use it often).

I sent the entire day in Seattle today. And am freaking exhausted.

Joders said...

Pompeii, Gallipoli, The Parthenon, The Louvre (did I spell that right??), Stonehenge, Loch Ness....

Ummm, don't hate me Bond Girl but I might not be able to make it to Europe until April / May of 2011 now. My finances are looking particularly craptacular and my mortgage is a great, big, hairy monster. An extra 6 months to save will probably make a hell of a difference.

Oooooh! I got some brochures for Europe as well. I'll bring them with me when I see you in November.

What sort of shoes am I gonna need in your November weather?? And in what context would you use the word nippiness?

Hope you had a great day in Seattle :D

@ Jennifer - Seattle Art Museum / School Field Trip? That's the perfect place to take a foreigner (ie me)!

jamie (aka afro) said...

sounds like fun!

ticket prices have gone down alot! hopefully student loans will be disbursed by then.

also are u far from aurora avenue? one of the ladies whose blog ive read for awhile lives there w/ her partner and i'd like to pop in and say hello to them
http://www.theviewpointe.com/about.html

http://dj-astellarlife.blogspot.com/2009/05/viewpointe-on-queen-anne-in-seattle.html

Anonymous said...

In Scotland the word "nippy" is a slang term for "annoying". As in "Mr. World was being a nippy bugger this morning." So "nippiness" could be used to describe someone's annoyingness. Although, I don't think annoyingness is an actual word either so maybes that wouldn't work after all. Ah well.

Kid World is on a serious MJ trip at the moment and is constantly on Youtube looking at his videos, then putting his CD on doing his best MJ dance. Tis rather cute, although he doesn't really appreciate me going in and outdancing him. But hey, I've had many years of experience practising my Thriller moves, so obvskis I'm going to do it better than him ;)

Miss World

Daners Isadora- Bond Girl said...

That seals it. I'm using nippy all the time now. It sounds dirty but at least I know it's an actual word.

Wee World is adorbs. And I believe we all need to have a dance off when I get to the UK.

Anonymous said...

Wee World is a better nickname for him, I need to remember to use that. And he is adorbs if I do say so myself.

A dance off sounds fab! I need to get practising now though. I mean, you'd think with all the dance routines I do - Thriller, Single Ladies, anything Madonna does, Michael Stipes funky "Losing My Religion" dance - that I would be an A+ performer by now, but unfortunately that isn't the case. In fact, I'm pretty sure I resemble a fish in its death throes when I dance.

Miss World

Daners Isadora- Bond Girl said...

O.M.G. I forgot about the Losing My Religion dance. I must get to practicing now!