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September 09, 2006

Long Day's Journey...into Night/Morning.

We're are home safe and sound...Safe at any rate.

It was certainly a long day yesterday since our flight wasn't scheduled to leave for 11.5 hours after I had to check out of the hotel and HE had to put in a days work.

BTW..we went cold turkey for the entire week. We did not bring our own coffee with us. After all we WERE going to Seattle WA, home of the Coffee Experience, ya know. While we weren't wowed by any coffee we had, we also didn't feel the need to spit it out either. Getting home to our own coffee has been a real treat...yum yum we do roast some good coffee if I do say so myself. (psst..I was wowed by one real Barista..he did an excellent job of latte art on my coffee...a very nicely done leaf and I gave him a tip and a compliment.)

Back to the day..Things were working pretty much on schedule. I packed, I surfed, I read email, I IMed. I gave the room over to housekeeping and relinquished our bags to the front desk for the day. I really wasn't up for shopping but I figured the Mall area was as good a place as any to have some lunch and people watch. Oh yeah...watching people....Like the Protest march against the Korea US Free Trade Agreement talks that were announced last minute to forestall a repeat of the large protest of WTA a few years ago that paralyzed the city of Seattle. OK..this wasn't too bad...100 or so protesters...drum, gong, red Stop FTA t-shirts...megaphone or two and several members of Seattle's finest as escorts. Right around the block where I was dropped off. Interesting. They went down a side street shortly after I got there so I thought nothing more of them. I went to Talbots; I went to Nordstroms, I went to Macy's; I got a chicken Quesadilla; I got a latte; I went out to get ready to meet my shuttle back to the hotel.

I saw a couple of police on horses; I saw 4 police on bicycles; I saw several more police on bicycles; I saw 4 motorcycle police; I saw a blue police van of a few more policemen. Hmmm...they all seemed to be congregating and milling about right around the square where I was sitting waiting for my shuttle. More policemen showed up...2 guys in a black Ford Explorer parked right in front of where I was expecting my shuttle. hhhmmm...oh look, flashing lights in the next block coming my way. Oh yes, protesters coming back around the block, slowly. Hmmm...interesting...by my calculations, they should just about make it to my shuttle pick up spot right about the time I was due to be picked up. hhmmm...maybe my brother and sisterinlaw saw me on the NBC news last night. ;-D

I didn't have long to wait at the hotel upon my return for Greg to show up then off to the airport. We only had about 7 hours to wait but we wanted to see what 5pm traffic on I-5 was like as well as check in. Not too bad; we've been in worse on I-95 many times. We found a pretty quiet place to sit in the north terminal and commenced to talking and watching. People need to pick up their feet when they walk..I hate scuffing. Oh my...casual dressers, fancy dressers, snappy dressers and the just plain OH My God I need to wash out my eyes dressers. I don't much care for shorts and muscle shirts anyway but regardless, they belong on the beach or poolside, not on the planes and certainly not on the ..um...er... ah...shall we say "unbuffed" folks. Rule of thumb if you don't know whether you should appear in public in a muscle shirt and shorts? You must not weight 400 pounds, you must not have stump legs with flesh spillage over your socks and high tops...and please please please for the love of all that is humanly decent, please do not lift up said muscle shirt exposing your girth when exiting the men's room and clean your glasses. this all happening around 9pm with still 2 hours to go before take off...I was tired..I did not need to see that; I was over the edge and nearly threw up laughing. Not good.

The rest of the trip was less exciting..red eyes are like that..we slept or tried to; I thought the guy next to me was going to crawl over the seats when the good morning announcement woke him up. I do think the volume could have been controlled a bit better for overnight flights. Our Dulles to BTV pilot had a bit of a disagreement with the fuel truck guy..he came back and gave us more fuel..I like that in a pilot; I don't think we needed to to worry about coasting into Burlington on fumes. Too early in the day for that.

Anyway, we've been coffeed, we've been fed, we've napped with cats and had a good dose of rain. I think it was supposed to be Seattle's rain, though, I don't KNOW what it's doing on the East Coast and I want it to Stop now. Thank you very much.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend all.......I'm going to sleep some more, catch up on the news which has not been good and eat food at the neighborhood watch block party tomorrow. Must remember to get napkins....

Posted by frani at September 9, 2006 05:09 PM

Comments

Welcome back!

I love to people watch and I know what you mean about people watching in the airport. Do they ever look in the mirror before leaving their home/hotel?

DA

Posted by: DA at September 10, 2006 11:43 AM

Oh Dulles....you should have called...I would have meet you on the way to work or the gym or something

WElcome back to the East Coast.

Posted by: Risa at September 10, 2006 03:07 PM

HA! The Seattle coffee thing grows on you--and the protests are pretty normal here. I-5 traffic IS the pits, glad it wasn't new to you. Next time you are coming, let me know and I will meet you at the mall for coffee! Take care.

Posted by: bunnybeth at September 11, 2006 01:14 AM

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