What a weekend!
Dec. 5th, 2010 10:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedwordsIt was a whirlwind of activity, and I got absolutely no writing done, so I am now heading into near-panic over my unplotted, unwritten story. I did have a marvelous time, though.
Friday was L's company Christmas party, and I got to learn about playing craps. I won enough to get a few chances in the 'big winner' drawing, but not enough to win anything. There was good food and cake, and I finally met the guy that we play left 4 dead with sometimes, which was cool. I also ran into some people that I had interviewed with last may, when I took my current contract, and they asked me if I would be interested in a full-time gig. So that was a yay, too.
Saturday, we slept in, then headed into seattle to go to the BSG exhibit (I have pictures that I hope I remember to post. Nothing great, but pictures! I was that excited.) Then we checked into a hotel, walked down to the wild ginger for dinner (where we ordered way too much food, but all of it tasty), and walked over to SAM where we realized it wasn't open late on Saturday nights so we missed out on the Picasso exhibit.
We froze out tails off walking back to the hotel, but the streets were so lovely with the horse drawn carriages, the special holiday lights, and the figgy pudding caroling competition going on, it was totally worth it. We ended up just hanging out watching the history channel in the hotel room after that, all of us dinking around with our phones (or video games, in the case of my son) while American Pickers was on.
We crashed early, since we had tickets for the 10:00 am entry at the Harry Potter exhibit. We walked to a Starbucks that wasn't open for breakfast, so then navigated to one that was open, passing a block full of people already waiting in line to have pictures taken with Santa.
Then it was on to Seattle Center and the exhibit, which was truly wonderful. It was amazing to see all of the detail that went into everything. I loved it. We followed it up with Dim Sum in the international district, then wound our way home and essentially crashed. I'm not exactly sure why I am still upright, but I think inertia may be the answer. I took tomorrow off to hopefully catch up on housework, do some christmas shopping, and writing. So hopefully by tomorrow night, things will be in better shape.
But gosh, the weekend was worth it.
Friday was L's company Christmas party, and I got to learn about playing craps. I won enough to get a few chances in the 'big winner' drawing, but not enough to win anything. There was good food and cake, and I finally met the guy that we play left 4 dead with sometimes, which was cool. I also ran into some people that I had interviewed with last may, when I took my current contract, and they asked me if I would be interested in a full-time gig. So that was a yay, too.
Saturday, we slept in, then headed into seattle to go to the BSG exhibit (I have pictures that I hope I remember to post. Nothing great, but pictures! I was that excited.) Then we checked into a hotel, walked down to the wild ginger for dinner (where we ordered way too much food, but all of it tasty), and walked over to SAM where we realized it wasn't open late on Saturday nights so we missed out on the Picasso exhibit.
We froze out tails off walking back to the hotel, but the streets were so lovely with the horse drawn carriages, the special holiday lights, and the figgy pudding caroling competition going on, it was totally worth it. We ended up just hanging out watching the history channel in the hotel room after that, all of us dinking around with our phones (or video games, in the case of my son) while American Pickers was on.
We crashed early, since we had tickets for the 10:00 am entry at the Harry Potter exhibit. We walked to a Starbucks that wasn't open for breakfast, so then navigated to one that was open, passing a block full of people already waiting in line to have pictures taken with Santa.
Then it was on to Seattle Center and the exhibit, which was truly wonderful. It was amazing to see all of the detail that went into everything. I loved it. We followed it up with Dim Sum in the international district, then wound our way home and essentially crashed. I'm not exactly sure why I am still upright, but I think inertia may be the answer. I took tomorrow off to hopefully catch up on housework, do some christmas shopping, and writing. So hopefully by tomorrow night, things will be in better shape.
But gosh, the weekend was worth it.
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Date: 2010-12-07 01:25 am (UTC)