Friday
On Friday night, I had called CDMCC around 8 and they had come back from boating awhile ago, but wasn’t hungry yet and was planning to have dinner around 10. So I left work around 9:30 and headed to his place. We tried that Belgium beer pub again, but apparently they stopped serving food at 10pm and by the time we got there already it was 10:30. We ended going to Wild Ginger instead. The food there was pretty good and not as pricey as I’d imagine for a restaurant that looked pretty high class.
We went back to CDMCC’s place afterwards and played a game of Fool and Team Guys (Vandel, CDMCC, and me) vs Team Girs (Liam, Brenna, Elizabeth) and we completely dominated. Haha. I don’t seem to recall waht else we did that night (no, I wasn’t drunk), but I also wasn’t armed with my camera so I’ll just say we left ~2ish because everyone else was “tired” (*nudge nudge wink wink*).
Saturday
On Saturday, we had plans to go camping at Big Four Ice Caves if it didn’t start raining, but of course it did, so that was cancel. Instead we made breakfast at 2pm in the afternoon with pancakes, potatoes, and scrambled eggs with mushrooms. It was really fun. We went shopping at Larry’s and got a bunch of ingredients and sauces and powdered sugar (yummm…). We sat around watching TV for awhile and CDMCC had made reservations at Brasa at 6:30. Yes That’s about 2 hours after breakfast, but there wasn’t anything we could do about that anymore.
We first went to Nordstrom to pick up CDMCC’s Diesel jeans which he had altered to fit better. I’m guessing he got that as a present from someone or maybe it was a present to himeself.
Dinner was fun at Brasa. No one was “that” hungry, but everyone seemed to have finished their food. Well, everyone besides Liam, who also apparently left his left overs back at CDMCC’s apartment. This was my 2nd time there and apparently you could use the Prime card there:
Receive the second adult entree of equal or lesser value in the party (party meaning 2 or more people) complimentary.
Anyway, dinner went well, if you discount what happened to Liam. First his chicken was undercooked (still saw raw meat in the center) and had the chef fix it. Then he asked the waiter (or maybe someone else asked the waiter) what a certain meat was in his seafood/chicken plate. He told Liam it was some Italian sausage and as you know Liam doesn eat meat, besides fowls and seafood. Our waiter, which was awesome by the way, asked Liam if he liked it, but Liam didn’t dignify with a response which we all thought implied to the waiter that he didn’t like it, instead of he didn’t eat meat. I mean, it’s pretty hard for a waiter to tell that you’re “vegetarian” when you ordered chicken and seafood. Elizabeth order bass which came as a whole fish and she was pretty scared of it and asked the waiter if he could removed the head and the tail. You’ll be able to see the picture of the fish in the photo album which I’ll link later. I had ordered Tuna and it was yummy.
After dinner, we went back to CDMCC’s place and played some cards. We had several rematch games of Fools and Team Girls won breaking the tie at 2-2. We then brought out the birthday cake. Since we were celebrating both CDMCC’s and Liam’s birthday, but only had 24 candles, we chopped the candles in half to get 48 (24 for CDMCC and 23 for Liam). It was pretty difficult lighting all 48 candles with just matches, but in the end, we succeeded and the cake was a hugh fire (also viewable in the gallery). When they blowed out the candles, wax got everywhere and the top of the cake actually became a layer of wax. The cake turned out pretty good.
We then played a couple games of Golf and Pyramid (both drinking games). Since I didn’t drink, I had to play with tonic water, which was equally as disgusting. The games were pretty fun and now we were ready to hit the bars.
There was quite a bit of drama at the 2 bars that we went to. Everyone was going crazy and Liam just kept downing his drinks and got pretty wasted. Everyone was having fun. Then this guy comes up and tries to hit on Elizabeth, but Liam comes and saves the day and bumps into him on purpose. Then there was the woman with the big cleavage and Liam posed next to her while CDMCC took a picture. Then there was Liam asking a girl what she thought about being a 5th wheel (in the same table with the big cleavage lady, there were 2 couples and a 5th lady). She replied they were all just friends, but we managed to save Liam before anything else happened.
We then went to get hotdogs at this cart place. The dogs were delicious, comparable to Top Dog quality. I miss Top Dog.
We ended the night just chilling in the Spa.
Sunday
Liam had a flight out of SEATAC at 8:30am, so we left my place at 7:10. It only takes about 20-30 minutes to get to the airport. I had only gotten 2 hours of sleep and after coming back, I immediately hit the sack.
I got a call at ~1:30pm from Elizabeth that they were coming to pick me up to go hiking. They had to hurry, because it was already pretty late and Vandel and Brenna had a flight to catch at 7:50pm.
We visited Big Four Ice Caves. The hike was pretty short (1.1mi), but most of it was covered in snow. This was the 1st time Audrey (the dog) saw snow and she was having a blast. Unfortunately when we arrived at the caves, we found out the caves are snowed in this time of year and would open up around June. The scenary was still quite stunning. We also met some cool people along the way and actually saw a small avalanche (video 1, video 2). Then we also met this dog eating dog that wanted to eat Audrey, but the owners held him back.
We dropped Vandel and Brenna at the airport and headed back to watch South Park and eat pizza. Then CDMCC drove me back and I immediately went to take a nap and woke up ~12am.
Photos
Here are some shots I thought were worth displaying:
From Andrew’s and Liam’s Birthday 2006:
From Big Four Ice Caves:
