Weekend (and a Tuesday) O' Fun

Sorry for the lack of updates...but this time its not cuz I am super busy with work...more like super busy with FUN...haha...what a change!

Here's the highlights:

--Though I am "technically" done and have more free time and working "normal" hours, I still have the Japanese and European localization versions to work. That's all fine and dandy but for some wierd reason, I get these "surprise" deadlines out of NO WHERE, sometimes on the day its DUED which forces me to work a little harder. But not much harder, because despite the fact that everyone else here is lazily working (who can blame them), I too still dont work that hard and still get things done...and ON TIME. I am the miracle worker...

--Jon and his gf came to visit me in Seattle this weekend. Well, I was one of the reason (I like to think I am A reason for someone to come up here)...he was here to also meet up his gf's friends from Portland and to spend a day in Vancouver.

--Friday was Tom's Bday party at some Vietnamese restaurant followed by bullriding at this "hot" new bar called Cowgirls Inc.

--for the Vietnamese restaurant, we promised 7 courses of BEEF. Of course...we didn't get that...or at least...it wasn't what we expected. But it was still a good time making fun of the fact that we didn't get 7 courses of beef.

--met this really cool Korean girl who sat next to me at dinner. Actually, she was very cute looking which made me more surprised when she told me how old she was (she is MUCH OLDER than I am)

--went to Cowgirls, Inc where Jon and his group were waiting for me. Cowgirls Inc. is this new bar run by female bartenders or "cowgirls" and its supposed to be like that bar in "Coyote Ugly" where they dance on the bar tops and woo guys. What we also have is an incredible long wait in a line outside the bar and then entering into bar filled with mostly guys. And did I mention it was REALLY loud in there? Or, at least there's bullriding.

--I stuck around for a short while, taking pictures of Tom and Lily getting on the bull (btw...Lily, after ridiing the bull, was actually offered a job to work there as a female host!), I wanted to leave the place because it was just too loud (getting old), too many guys everywhere and I could tell Jon and company was not having a good time (I really wanted to introduce them to my friends but it was hard with the noise). So, we left to check out the rest of Pioneer Square. We checked both a Jazz bar and the Fenix Underground. Then I took them to eat at Purple Dot (our usual 2am meal place) before we all went home to wake up bright and early for Vancouver the next day.

--did I mention that one of the bartenders at the Cowgirl I recognized as somekind of porn star? Dont ask me how I know.

--funny thing about me leaving Cowgirls early. Thoughout the night, I kept getting phone calls from people still at the bar wondering where I went. Turns out, everyone decided to do some bullriding and they needed someone with a camera to take their pictures...aka...ME!! Why is it that I have this big camera that I hate carrying around with me yet I bring it that night, and everyone else has these cool small, take anywhere cameras and none of them bring theirs?!!! Once again, I have become the unoffical photographer of the group.

--oh yeah...the pictures can be found here:

http://public.fotki.com/namofni/toms_bday!!/

--Saturday...Vancouver Day Trip. Spent day in Richmond, Stanley Park and Downtown Vancouver, eating, walking and shopping.

--Highlight of Trip: going to Sambo, an ALL YOU CAN EAT Brazilian Meat place where they give you slices and slices of all kinds of meat, including beef, pork, chicken, shrimp etc. But they even had exotic meats as well, where I got to try venison (deer) and ostrich (they ran out of buffalo). Needless to say, we were stuffed beyond belief.

--oh yeah...pictures of us...mostly at Stanley Park:

http://public.fotki.com/namofni/vancouver_day_trip/

--btw...I think Jon's gf looks a lot like my friend Andrea. Both are short and look very similar IMHO. Hmmmm....

--Sunday: spent day driving Jon and his gf around Seattle. I took them to Ikea, Fry's, Bruce Lee's grave, Capital Hill, Chinatown and then we met up with Linh and Justin for dinner by Lake Union. Ended the night with watching "Eternal Sunshine on a Spotless Mind." Very trippy movie (but good).

--Monday: took moring and good part of afternoon off for lunch with Jon and gf at Nintendo and even managing to squeeze in a trip to Microsoft Company Store (very great discounts) and their Microsoft Museum. Then I drove them to the airport. Fun times.

--Tuesday: took whole day off to attend the Seattle Mariners season openner vs. the Angels with Sylvia, Karen and Karen's friend Kate. Mariners lost but it was such a great day to watch baseball with a bunch of pretty girls :) Me happy.

--pictures coming soon...