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January 31, 2005
Seattle Underground
Dawnise and I finally took the Seattle Underground tour yesterday. We got up late - the first day in a while we didn't have anything pressing to do, and went down to the Crumpet Shop for brunch. While munching on our crumpets, we started into the classic "what do you want to do today?", "I dunno, what do you want to do today?" exchange.
We decided, at great length, that we'd swing back by the apartment on our way down to Pioneer Square to do the underground tour. The weather has been great lately, and Sunday was no exception - we got to the tour in plenty of time to buy tickets for the 1pm, and then walked around Pioneer Square to kill time.
The tour itself was, IMO, well worth the $10 admission - the guides were very knowledgeable and quite charismatic. As for the folks who built this city - well, let's just say that building it on rock 'n roll would have been a huge step up. What they did build it on, the first time, was sawdust. Seems logical right - you've got a booming lumber industry, a literal mountain of sawdust, and you need landfill. Never mind the whole "sawdust is organic and will decay over time" problem.
"Other kinds said I was daft to build a castle in the swamp..."
Anyway - after a 20 minute historical talk we broke into two groups and went underground. Got some pretty good pictures that I'll be uploading "soon."
After the tour we went out to ... drum-roll please ... do more shopping! During our outing we stumbled on a Krispy Crack with the HOT sign on, so we stopped in for our bi-annual donut fix. Just like a drug dealer - the first one's free, but you can never stop at just one.
On the house front, in theory we close escrow today - fingers crossed. The movers are scheduled to bring stuff out on Thursday and Friday, our new mattress comes in on Saturday, and DirecTV will be there to do the install on Sunday. Once I get the cable modem I ordered I'll schedule Comcast to come out and hook up cable modem, and then we'll decide if we're getting a traditional land-line, or just going VoIP.
Posted by dberger at January 31, 2005 7:32 AM