Yesterday & Today: an exercise in time management

So yesterday, to put it succinctly, we did nothing. We started our day mid-afternoon, took a bus to Capitol Hill*, went home because it was cold/raining/miserable, then we decided at 8 or 9 (when all the businesses are already closed or are closing, mind you) that we'd like to go out and shop. You can imagine how that turned out. Vegas mentality, you know?

*To any and every person who suggested we check out Capitol Hill, or anyone who intends to maybe check out Capitol Hill in the future: it sucks. Our bus driver kicked us off at the last stop and told us bleakly that there wasn't much around other than "Bruce Lee's grave, and a really cool atrium." It was January 1st to boot, so most everything was closed. The only thing that was open was a handful of restaurants.

Anyways, we ended the night by killing a few hours at GameWorks, which neither of us had been to since we were 12. The woman who sold us our card was named Sky Blue. And we scored enough tickets to get these WACKY glasses!


Whoa! Those are comically large!

Today we woke up late (again). We started out our day at this coffee shop that we hadn't checked out before, which is odd considering that it's right next door. They were super friendly and super delicious, so if you're ever in the area, check out Seattle Coffee Works by Pike Place Market.

Then we hit up the hipster trinity (H&M, American Apparel, Urban Outfitters) before taking the two-minute ride of our lives known as the Seattle Monorail. We were at the Seattle Center in no time, where we quickly realized that every dollar and minute spent prior to this day in Seattle was spent in utter futility. We disappointedly found out that the City Pass we intended on buying the day of was actually good for nine days, so we totally could've bought them the day we got here and gone back whenever. So we decided to just pay for all the attractions a la carte, and only got through the Experience Music Project (awesome!) aaaand that's about it. I mean, you know, we wanted to do AT LEAST the SciFi museum and a few other things, but we're running on Vegas time and assumed that everything stayed open until at least 8. Wrong. We're gonna try to fit in the other half of Seattle Center tomorrow.

On the way back home we ate about 1038457135 things (me personally: sandwich, fish & chips, fudge, crepe, smoothie, more fudge [ladiez]), and stopped by an FYE that was going out of business, so of course we spent an hour and hundreds of millions of dollars there. I got so excited that I began sweating whole calories out of every pore (ladiez).

In other words the past 48 hours have been chock full of disappointment, self-indulgence, laziness, and consumerism.

And now pictures!


For the record, I hate this photo with all of my being.







In conclusion, we show up late to everything and never take pictures of anything. We are the worst tourists any city has ever had the displeasure of hosting.