Anyone in Seattle?

“I seem to remember a certain mom stealing his candy too! :p

So you are saying yes to Halloween at your place then? :D We already have our costumes picked out... hehehehe...
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“Sweet... I'll be at Sarbar's on the 31st ;)

Errrrr... I ment... Synchro's... :D

*ducks*”

“Lol...Deo would have loved the teenage girls dressed as trampy "angels"......they were accompanied by the other set dressed as trampy Goth Girls (all in tight and revaling outfits) lol!!
Yeah, a Halloween BBQ would rock!!”

“So hook it up woman!!! :)”

“Do I come across as that shallow as to enjoy young teenage girls dressed as tramy angels and trampy goth girls? I... errrr... I was going to make a point but I forgot what it was...”

“One word...

YES! :p”

“I love you too Dicentra :)

"Baby on board" How I've adored that sign on my car window pane!
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““Do I come across as that shallow as to enjoy young teenage girls dressed as tramy angels and trampy goth girls? I... errrr... I was going to make a point but I forgot what it was...”
DeoreDaXeKiller
11:05:09 AM
10/07/05

Ha Ha!
tramy or trampy?

Maybe both! ;-)
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“Hey sarbar! What's with all these teen girls walking around with angel wings?
They are even doing that in MS.”

“Hey ya'll...

I'll be arriving in Seattle tomorrow and will be there until Friday. I've got a training class to attend there and will be staying at the Fairmont downtown.

I've never been to Seattle before, but I'm traveling with another person that has. Hopefully, we can get out and do some walking each day and goof off.

After flying home next Friday, I'll hit the road to Virginia for a week of backpacking on the AT...life sure is rough.”

“Rember..feeding the bums is bad ;-)
But seriously, get out and drink a lot of coffee and see the sights :-D Such as REI, Pikes Place, the water, the freezing wind, the rain...and if ya feel like a touron, take a water tour-they are fun. Or go over to Alki Beach for dinner at Salty's....that is fun!”

“Salty's??? ICK! lol. Alki is awesome though! A trip up the Space Needle (super touron alert!) is fun too.

MDSHiker... any chance we can call out the Posse for you, maybe on Wed night? Email me and I'll hook it up! :)”

“Ick?! Salty's has great food!”

“Sarbar's been hanging out at the Lightweight Backpacker board... for shame!”

“I've only been there once, and it was for a work party thing... So maybe it was just bad for that. Our fish was overcooked... Ick! I hate that!”

“should have sent it back.”

“Hey Deo...ya know that horrible back injury I gave myself? Well, I am a fullon light packer this past year...yes, repeat to myself..lifting a cast iron X-mas tree stand out of my pond was a BAD idea.
I can't pack over 25 or so lbs anymore :-(”

“I will trade custom sent silnylon stuff for peanut butter cookies ;)”

“Well, you'll just have to fly out here ;-) the 29th Di and me are putting on a get together at the Synchro & Sarbar homestead in our lovely private community (yes, indeedy!) Many animals will give their meaty goodness for us, the men will drink beer and talk about guns most likely....lol!
Oh did I mention I made maple syrup snickerdoodles? They were sooooooooooooooo good ]:-)”

“You guys crack me up...

I made it safely and I'm enjoying the fresh seafood. I'm heading over to REI tonight (tuesday) after class.

The Fairmont Olympic Hotel is awesome and only a few blocks from the IDX building where my class is. Oh yeah...restaurant ideas are certainly welcome !!”

“The Fairmont? Well la-tee-dah!! How did you swing that?!
http://www.fairmont.com/seattle/

Did someone mention FOOD???
-Wild Ginger is close and ROCKS for Thai food.
-The Brooklyn (hit their happy hour!) for seafood and/or steaks. They have good drinks too.
-The Dahlia Lounge. No, I've never been personally, but I've always wanted to! The chef is world famous... You should go and give me a review. :)

-Dicks (a Seattle icon!) for the best greasy fries, burgers and chocolate milkshakes. Cheap too!


Sarbar...Save some of those maple syrup snicerdoodles for me! YUM!

DDX, if'n you wanted to fly out for the party, you could prolly stay at Sarbar's. (Like how I volunteer ya like that? ;) )”

“I couldn't talk my way into Pixie's so I guess Sarbar's will have to do :D”

“Well I guess you *could* stay at our place... If you don't mind living in a zoo! lol.”

“Sweet tater... remember... I have four.. errr.. three dogs, a cat, a snake, and some fish. My outfit isn't complete without a little animal hair.”

“Excellent!

So should I pick you up from the airport on the 28th then? :)”

“Lol...you think Mr. Uppity is going to want to stay at my house with the 2 fat overfed constant shedding white fartknockers crawling on him? lol!!
Wrongbridge has said more than once that he woke up to the 18 lb one staring at him, eyeing out what part he was goingto snack on :-D


Now, fer places to go, the brew pub down at Pikes Place....oh shoot, the name is skipping me!
Though we really know he wants to go to The Lusty Lady :-P”

“"Now, fer places to go, the brew pub down at Pikes Place....oh shoot, the name is skipping me!"

Is it the Pike Brewery and pub? ;)
http://www.merchantduvin.com/pages/3_pike_brewing/pub_welcome.html”

“Thanks for the advice everyone. I walked over to REI last night and it wasn't a bad walk at all. Then we walked over a few blocks and had a beer at Paddy's.

After walking back towards the waterfront, we stopped at Anthony's and had a nice seafood supper. Phew...didn't realize Seattle had hills. ;) I'm enjoying the city...too bad I'm in class all day. Blah.”

“Hehehe!!! Seattle has one less hill now than it did when it was founded. They dumped one into the Sound. Aka Denny Regrade.


Ask Pixie about Paddy's. ;) Good stuff! Man does the bar tender know how to fix drinks. Turtle and I were just talking about that the other night!”

“I want to visit Pixie and Lu Lu. ;-)”

“Uh huh. I see how Sarbar and I rate! :(”

“LOL”

“Well, Lu Lu is just so dang pretty.”

“Well I now have that big giant house to myself. EngineerGirl and Bossy moved to Italy. Took them to the airport last Sunday. I should start a little TT hotel on the side. hee hee

MDS, you went to Paddy's! Hooray! They have good food. Too bad you just had a beer.... As for their cocktails, I wouldn't know. I always get beer there.
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“So Pixie, When is the house party? LOL.


Didn't the bartender make us a whole bunch of weird drinks when we were there for "shoe night"? I seem to remember some sort of chocolate cake thing and manhattans... ?? I could always check the pics. ;)”

“Last night we went to the "Metropolitan Grill" and had the prime rib with a spinach salad. OMG...I could hardly walk back to the hotel. That was the best hunk of beef I've ever had. The waiter immediately asked me and my buddy where we were from...I guess that Alabama talk is hard to miss.

Tonight is my last night in town. I've really enjoyed seeing the city and would like to come back and visit some day. The one thing I like about this town is that everyone seems to be wearing some sort of outdoors jacket...even with a dress shirt and tie. Ha ha...my kind of place. I brought my soft shell to wear around in the wet weather and I fit right in.

I'm flying back to Bama tomorrow and then will leave for Virginia the next day. I'm looking forward to getting on the trail for a week in Virginia. I've been walking around Seattle at night for a few hours each night...up and down the hills. I should be in pretty good shape for next week!!”

“Oh yeah! The MET rocks for red meat! ;)

Too bad you won't be around tomorrow night. The Posse coulda shown you some sights.

Glad you enjoyed Seattle. Come back in Aug, when it isn't raining! lol.”

“Mmm. The Met. I'm hungry.

Yeah, I remember that shot. Maybe I did have a manhattan come to think of it.”

“yup. And I've got pics to prove it! ;)

Damn strong ones too!”

“I don't usually get cocktails there. That was the only time. I always drink the yummy beer.”

“Hi Seattlites,

I checked out the Wild Ginger on City Search for restaurant reviews and they were many bad reviews with a few people saying they had a good meal there. Forget about the service. Dicentra, you must have hit the place on a very good day for them and ordered the exact item that is their best entree.

Hasn't anyone gone to the International District for more authentic Asian food and does anyone have recommendations? I always figure to go into the restaurants with the most Asian people and one that's busy if I were to just look around. I've done that in other cities and it seems to work.

I'm not into Teriyaki or Pho Noodles places.”

“Funny. Everyone here at works LOVES Wild Ginger! They are catering our big party next week (and they don't DO catering)

I won't be at the party, so I'll have to go try them again I suppose. ;)”

“dicentra, I go to city search and it is common at times to get mixed reviews, but when I see a lot of bad ones, then a few good ones, it makes me think that staff or the owners wrote them. Restaurants do have off days where there are different chefs working where the food can be very different. You should check out the site. I think you would find it interesting since you've been there. You may even want to give them a good review for a boost if you feel they really are good.

Here's the link where you can go to "user's reviews". There are 71 reviews!!!!

http://seattle.citysearch.com/profile/10767440/seattle_wa/wild_ginger.html

Could the bad reviews be from one disgruntled customer posting over and over? You never know!”

“lipstick. Wild Ginger was voted best restaurant in Seattle several years in a row. They got 9.1 points out of 10. I wouldn't call that bad reviews!
But if you want authentic Asian food of a certain region, it's not the restaurant for you. It's Asian Fusion.
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“pix, I'm not really a big fan of Asian food since I'm finnicky, but I wouldn't mind finding a good one since my husband likes Asian food. I just eat wonton soup, fried rice, chicken with broccoli and lo mein.

We really haven't experimented at all with all the different places. He gets the basic teriyaki beef or chicken by us. I'm sure there are a ton of good Asian restaurants since there are so many of them. I've done the bbq thing where they give you beef and chicken etc. to grill yourself at your table. It was okay.

Then I think we went to the Mongolian Grill, but it freaks me out to watch them cook my food where they are cooking seafood since I don't eat seafood. As you can see, I'm a problem, lol:)

Maybe the bad Wild Ginger reviews came from people with different expectations of the place. I can see that happening with Asian foods since the different provinces cook differently and then the fusion thing.

I went out on a limb and went to some Thai place in Tacoma and had chicken satay and the chicken with the peanut sauce. It was pretty good. I think I have to acquire more of a taste for it by trying it again.

I'll go to Jyjima Village; I know I spelled that wrong. I'll get fried rice or lo mein there. The Phillipino food never looks good. They always have fish heads hanging around, lol:) Even at the Great Wall store in Auburn which is a mini mall if you haven't been there, they have food stores and an Asian grocery store and again, the Phillipino place serves fish heads!

I got a great deal on a huge bottle of Maggi's Seasong from there for about $4+ when it goes for $2.99 for a tiny bottle in regular grocery stores. It says it's made in China so I figured I look for it there and it was a big score. I use it all the time on plain baked chicken.”

“Hi, all. Remember how our train was over 8 hours late getting into Eugene? We called Amtrak, and they sent us vouchers for $150 each. The whole trip was only a little over $300, and the other trains were on-time or almost on time. Yeah, on the road again.”

“Amtrack is scary. They always seem to be crashing.”

“LH, I musta missed that bit of news. What happened?”

“Amtrack is scary. They always seem to be crashing

yeah. that shi† could never happen on a highway.”

“Ha! That's why I like to mix my karma with that of the whole train.”