Carrie took an early lunch, around Noon:15. After I dropped her off I did a big revision to her Peyote Sampler handout because Laura is going to be taking over that class next quarter! Very exciting.
I dropped that off at the store and then drove up to Seattle to hang out with Sandy and Mathias. We went and got Vietnamese sammitches at this littel hole-in-the-wall deli that had a disgustingly gross smelling dumpster in the parking lot. We took the sammitches to Seward Park in that area of Seattle where I never go. Them sammitches was really good! And they were only $2.00 each for a six-inch sub with a lot of barbequed pork, carrots, cilantro, onions, all that kind of thing.
After going back to the apartment for just a bit, we went down to that bubble tea place for one of those Nintendo DS meets. We played a good bit of the new Star Fox Command
game. It takes quite a while to get used to flying with the stylus, but the play control is really cool. We also played the old stand-bys: Big Brain Academy, Tetris DS, Bomberman DS, and Mario Kart DS. Leia & Kedar as well as my brother all ended up showing up, so there was a pretty sizeable group going on. One kid there was better at Mario Kart DS than I was, so I consistently came in 2nd to him. But I consistently won Big Brain Academy, and actually did really well on Bomberman.
After the meet Mathias showed off an insane book he'd found called Do You Know What I'm Going to Do Next Saturday? It's a Seuss book but it wasn't written by him, and there are B&W photographs instead of illustrations. Plus it's just batsh*t crazy, including such things as:
I'll dump water on Sam.
I'll make him take a walk.
I'll make Sam walk about a hundred miles.
Plus an unhealthy obsession with the United States Marines and some very un-childlike activity with them. You'll see.
After all that fun I started to drive back home.
Meanwhile...
Down in Tacoma Carrie & Steph had planned to have an early dinner because Steph was doing some sorta audition thing at 6:00. But the audition thing got cancelled. So instead they decided to have Steph's new beau, Jamie, over to our house for dinner as well.
A while before that was supposed to happen, Carrie went to Starbucks, presumably for coffee. Lawrence said he got off soon, and wondered if he could come over and play some Mario Kart with Carrie! Which he did. Also, Carrie made Margaritas for the two of them. They walked to the Neighborhood Market and bought dinner fixin's to make Chicken Marsala. When Steph and Jamie came over, Steph started making mojitoes.
After dinner, Jamie said he wanted to go to Shakabra and pick up his friend who was performing there. So they all tipsily walked down there, and Carrie realized that Jamie's friend was Chad, a guy she's known since he was 12.
They all walked back to the house so they could use the restroom and whatnot, and then continued walking on to Steph & Christine's house. This is where I met up with them all on my way back from Seattle. I arrived just in time to drive Chad back to his car at Shakabra, then we came back and hung out for just a few minutes more before going back home just a little bit after midnight.
