The Real World

Well our exciting weekend is over :(

We had a blast though. Yesterday morning started out by Joel getting up and going to finish his side job, or at least most of it. I took Dylan and Maddie and Andrew to the middle school track to run. Andrew ran. Dylan mostly ran but he was getting side aches and stuff so he took it easy. Maddie ran one lap and petered out on us. It was a walk day for me since I ran on Friday so I walked 6 laps and then Mam and Lauren were done at the pool so it was time for the kids to go. I was still feeling pretty good and the sun was shining so I kept going. I walked another 1.5 miles. I could have kept going but I figured I should probably go home someday.

Joel got home at 1:45, which was a surprise. We had originally planned to take the 4:35 boat to Seattle. By the time we were all ready to go we had not quite enough time to catch the 2:55 boat so we just caught the 3:50 boat. It was a beautiful day yesterday and I enjoyed it.

We checked into the hotel and boy was it posh. I just wanted to chain myself to the desk and never leave (I first typed out bed, but that sounded really bad so I changed it to desk. You're welcome).

It was about 5:00 so of course we were hungry. We decided to take a little walk and see if we could find a nice place to eat. We walked out of the hotel and took a right and walked many blocks and ended up pretty much walking in giant square and ended up back at our hotel. The only food we found was a Wendy's, a Papa John's and a QFC. WTF? I thought Bellevue would have more than that. So back at the hotel we took a left instead of a right. We didn't even get 10 feet before we say Ruth's Chris, PF Chang's, a sushi place, the Cheesecake Factory, an Italian restaurant, an Irish pub, Earl's, and McCormick's. All within a block of each other. Apparently we should have taken a LEFT. Duh.

We chose Earl's. We'd never heard of it, but it looked good. It was good. Joel had halibut and chips and I had a Mediterranean linguine. After we went back to our hotel room and hung out for an hour until the Will Call window opened and we could get our tickets. The Will Call window would only be open for a 30 minute span so we decided to be there right when it opened. Good thing we did because there was a HUGE line (they were also selling tickets).

The show was so funny. Kyle Cease was hilarious, but Louie Anderson made me laugh until my stomach muscles hurt. It's a good thing I didn't pay for my tickets because I only got a half a seat. The woman next to me was probably 300-400 pounds and all of it in her butt. Woman should have bought TWO seats or at least paid me for half of mine. Good thing my butt is shrinking.

The show was almost 3 hours long. That's a lot of laughing! We were so glad we had made the decision to stay the night because we didn't get out of there until almost 11:30. It would have been 1:00 a.m. before we got home. We didn't go to the after party because we were so exhausted so we just went to bed (man, we are old, aren't we?). Anyway, I was really looking forward to sleeping in this gigantic king bed. Only there wasn't much sleeping going on. Before you get all grossed out, I don't mean like THAT you pervs. I just could NOT sleep in that bed. Joel had a hard time but not like me. I got maybe 2-3 hours TOTAL sleep combined. It sucked. It wasn't the bed's fault. It was the fact that I slept without my pillow for the first time in years. Seriously. You think I'm joking. I take my pillow everywhere. I didn't take it because I figured that a posh hotel like the Hyatt would have some awesome pillows. HAHAHAHA FALSE. Lesson learned. I hugged my pillow when I got home this morning. Really, I did.