Three-Pronged Attack Plus a Merry Christmas Nap!
In the wee hours of 9:00 in the morning Carrie & I got ourselves up and dragged ourselves over to Can & Chris's place and discovered that (other than Cat's brother Jake) of the total of seven people who were supposed to be there, three were completely unaccounted for. Couldn't be raised on their phones. Finally Erin showed up, saving us from having to watch Batman & Robin on TBS. We decided that we had a schedule to keep, and the others could just catch up.
We drove in three cars down to Puyallup to this place where you could cut your own Christmas tree for only $10. That's right. You heard me. We wandered around in the muck for a while before we found a very nice one. Just then Chris showed up with the other guy who was late, and cut it down for us. He tied it town to a trailer on his truck and paid for it before we could do anything about it. So we got a free Christmas tree this year. Chris is a real stand-up type of guy.
When Carrie & I finally got home, we decided that we would start to clean at 2:00. After doing miscellaneous stuff for a while (Carrie did Jewelry, I dinked around on teh intraweb and played some Animal Crossing), we both decided to take a nap. Well, pretty soon 3:30 was rolling around and we were still in bed. Silent Siesta.
Eventually we did get up and I cleaned up about half of the kitchen before taking a shower. We then headed down to The Rosewood Cafe because Barry was having a little private get-together type of party thing there, and we were invited. Viki, Steph, Christine, Dylan, Missa, and Travis were also there (along with a bunches of people I didn't know). We stayed from 5:00 to almost 7:00. Then we stopped at home and Carrie put on pants. Different pants! She was already wearing pants. I guess I should have said "changed pants" instead of "put on pants."
We then drove up to Maneki's in Seattle (with a very brief stop at Uwajimaya) to have dinner with Michael Tanner: Back from Los Angeles! It was a lot of fun. Going around the table counter-clockwise (just to be obstinate) were:
- Michael Tanner, aka Tannerman
- Mathias Purtlebaugh
- Edward Gibbs V
- Christopher Grant Harris
- Carrie Harris
- Sandy Purtlebaugh
- Brandy L. Newby
- Geoffrey Bruce Gibbs
- Taisha McFall
It was a grand time, and by gob the food at Maneki is fantastic! I had the salmon in foil pouch thing, which is amazing and only costs $6. Of course I also had some sushi, which pushed the price up considerably.
I really, really like that area of Seattle. It's just soooo goooood!
After dinner the whole group walked to a bubble tea place. Carrie's back was hurting from having to sit without a backrest for all of dinner (mine, surprisingly, was doing okay). She absolutely loved the little private dining room we got. She said that when we buy a house we should totally make our dining room to look like that. I've got no probs with that, I tell you what! I've always wanted to go totally Japanese on the one of teh rooms in my house. I kinda wanna do that in the office here, but it's already so full of cartoony and pop culture stuff that it'd be a little difficile.
We went home shortly thereafter and finished up creating Christmas presents for her brother and sister-in-law.
