It was a very interesting weekend for me filled with visitors from other worlds (or at least other parts of the state). It started Thursday when I was talking to Jim on IM and he told me that he was coming up to Seattle on Friday with Kira, Frank and Arlene to watch the Mariner’s game Friday night. On Friday I talked to Jim in the afternoon and he told me that they were on there way and asked if I wanted to hang out with them on Saturday since they thought it’d be to late after the game. I said that sounded like a plan and we decided we’d figure out what to do on Saturday.

After work on Friday, Kendall came over and surprised me by bringing me the ingredients for a keylime pie. I was missing a few things to make the keylime pie but, I was in the mood for baking so I made a casserole from some cream of chicken, canned corn, chicken breast and buttermilk bisquettes. I didn’t use a recipe. I just threw it together and when I took it out after 20 minutes the bisquettes were only half cooked, so I flipped em over on top of the rest of the casserole and rebaked them. When it came out the second time it was very good Afterwards we visitted Kendall’s mom at her work (Swedish Hospital) because her and Kendall had some stuff to discuss and then we headed back the the U-District so Kendall could get her copy of Breaking Dawn. We went the UBookstore at 11:50 and there were a bunch of nerdy high school and college girls there doing trivia and stuff about the book. They had punch and cupcakes which was a nice indulgence. It was nice because of where Kendall and I were standing next to the register she ended up being the 2nd person to get the book. She came back to my place and read for a couple hours before going to sleep.

On Saturday morning Jim called to let me know that they were going downtown to the Pike Street Market. I wasn’t really interested in going so I just lounged around my apartment while Kendall continued her book. Jim texted me and let me know that they’d be back to the U-District around 1:00 so we made plans to have lunch at The Ram in U-Village. We met Frank and Arlene and Jim and Kira there and had a nice lunch. It was nice catching up with the four of them and giving Frank and Arlene a chance to get to know Kendall. After lunch Kendall and I dropped by Victoria’s Secret so she could cash in her free pair of panties coupon and then we headed up to a park on 75th and 25th where she continued her reading and I lounged in the grass.

On the way to the park Tyler called me. I assumed he was returning my call from the day before where I was just asking what he was up to but, it turned out he was in Seattle for the weekend with Blake so after a while at the park, Kendall and I went and picked Tyler up from Blake’s house and we chilled at my place. Kendall took a break from her book long enough to have a long discourse with Tyler about her upcoming trip to Europe and all the places that he went to and that she is planning to go to. From there Tyler and I dropped Kendall off at home so she could do laundry and keep reading while we headed to Blake’s house for a little party. The party was more of a big drinking game. It was a fun game to learn but, really it just boiled down to chugging beer and rolling dice which left me less than sober. We went back to my place and crashed kinda early because Tyler was pretty tired.

Today when we got up, Tyler and I met Blake and Blake’s friend Bryan at Jimmy John’s where we had lunch. While there, I got a call from Malcolm informing me that he too was in town for the weekend because of a camping trip he had planned at Mt. Rainier. He met us at Jimmy John’s as we were finishing up and Tyler and Blake were leaving back to Bellingham. Malcolm and I went up to Subway so he could get lunch (Kendall works there too which made it more fun and then we went to Big Time for a beer. Afterwards we went back to my place where we watched a coupla youtube and break videos before he took off back to Vancouver.

In the span of a weekend I saw three of my good friends from out of the
area without having to do any planning of my own! It is nice when
things like that fall into place for you. This brings me to where I am now, blogging, uploading pictures to flickr and chilling half naked in my apartment.