seattle, WA is a pretty damn cool place. i lived there for a year (and was born there) and i go back every 1-2 years (all family is there). the weather is notoriously rainy (obv/everyone knows this), but the summers in seattle are quite nice...it's probably like an average of 70-75 and little/no humidity (compared to NE, this is very nice).
theres ton to do in seattle, especially for outdoors stuff...tons of hiking, mountain climbing, bike trails, some scuba diving (albiet cold), fishing, camping, etc. i'm not really super outdoorsman really but alot of those activities has an appeal to me (or at least hopefully will in the future).
seattle trips for me usually consist of tons of family ****/visits/dinners/etc. we did have some time to do other stuff though, stuff like fishing, hiking, rock climbing (for me).
first few days we fished. i'll add pictures when my family gets pics up. we went to west port, a small fishing town and did rock fish and linkcod (sp?). i ate dim sum the second day and it sucks ass. for all you crackers reading this blog, when you say 'oh, i like chinese food...it's great!', you really have no idea. americanized chinese food is the **** and i love it alot, gimme generals tsos chicken anyday over the traditional ****. traditional hardcore chinese food is nasty as hell...eating chicken feet and all that other bizarre **** is not for me. anyways, dim sum made me disgusted for the rest of the day and i don't want to eat it again for a while.
aside from the drive and waking up early, the fishing itself is pretty fun. it's pretty damn easy, the people fit all your bait/help you if the lines get tangled/etc...really novice fishing i suppose. we hit our 10 fish/person limit but failed on the linkcod limit (a bit harder to catch).
i was able to go to a store in seattle, a place called REI...cool outdoors store that sells lots of camping/hiking/climbing gear.
they also had a 65 foot wall that i got to climb-
cool store/fun wall.
we did more family ****. i was able to meet up with bilbo-san for an evening for dinner downtown. we ate bbq/chatted for a while, good to finally meet him. bilbo was not as old as i thought he would look and was not quite as angry as he is on the forums lol...
along w/ fishing and climbing we went hiking...seattle has some pretty nice hikes. we did some pretty easy ones overall. some were cool, overlooking waterfalls/etc-
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still some snow on the trail-
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overall, good hiking. i also was able to go to a climbing gym in seattle for a few hours, $15 for a day pass, not bad. i def wouldve gone there alot had i lived in seattle.
last day we ate some korean bbq. i havent had it in a while and its really quite good.
i went with my grandma and my uncles/cousin. everyone was having a good time except my grandma, who is 75 and slightly insane. she can't really hear and gets overly excited at times (but still
her anyway). throughout the meal she made quips about how 'chinese food was better/etc etc'...whether this stems from a cultural dislike of koreans, i have no idea, but it seems as if all azns hate other azns, so w/e...anyways, paying for the meal/dinner is always sortve a chinese cultural thing that i've seen...my grandparents always love to pay for the meal/etc, and it just sortve cycles its way through. my dad enjoys paying for the entire tab as well when our extended family meets up. the last lunch we grabbed the tab and my grandma got angry at my sister/dad because she wanted to pay it. she grabbed my sister and declared in broken english that if she couldnt pay for the next meal, she wasn't going.
so anyways, she wanted chinese, but at this point, my siblings and i were like 'ugh, no more fcking chinese, pleaseeee'...so we pretty much duped my grandma into going to korean bbq. everyone was having a jolly time except grandma, who sat in a bitter rage throughout the night.
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so anyways, as stated previously, grandma got up after we were finished to pay the bill. i think she was sortve in shock with how much it was ($195 or something for like 12 of us, which really isn't that bad i dont think)...chinese people are cheap by nature and she kept saying how chinese was better.
i started laughing my ass off when i asked her what she thought of the food. she can't really hear me but when she finally understood my question, she flicked my hand away, started to cuss in chinese and said it was terrible. we soon found out that she didn't leave a tip either, thinking that the restaurant already added some gratuity into the bill (due to our large party). she left not a cent however, and the staff asked my uncles if they were getting a tip.
after we went outside, i asked her again...she started babbling in chinese and gave the equivalent to the middle finger in chinese with both hands, which is a single raised pinkie -
hilarious.
pic of my crazy grandma-
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and finally back home now.
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