Christmas Oddities

I am afraid that poor Matt will be left with the impression that all we ever do is eat out. On Christmas Day we ate Vietnamese Pho in the international district. Matt mentioned that he has always thought about teaching English in Japan, or any other Asian country. He needs more practice with chopsticks before he goes though.






We kept with the Asian theme and went to the Cinerama to see House of Flying Daggers (subtitled in English). It is a beautiful film and includes much traditional swordplay, beautiful dancing, warriors flying through the tops of the bamboo trees, and of course, tragedy. I really like the Mandarin language; it is much more soothing and beautiful sounding than Vietnamese.



On the 26th, we again ventured forth to find exotic food. This time – Mediterranean. We went to Pioneer Square to eat Gyros and Falafel, not realizing that it was football game day. We waded through the sea of Seahawks fans and I made John stand on the side of a light pole to take this shot.



Matt seemed to enjoy the Gyro, perhaps it was because it came with fries and a Dr.Pepper.












Then we had more coffee.




We went traditional with the next phase of our trip and visited Fry’s Electronics Superstore for day after Christmas shopping. It was a bit insane in there, but we managed to find what we needed and get out without injury.








John dropped Matt and I at the Pike Place Market and he picked out a salmon for a Christmas present to the family back home in Colorado.


Of course, we had to stop for MORE coffee – SBC this time. We walked home and put the fish (in its dry ice cooler packed crate) out on the balcony to keep cool.


On to EMP and the Sci-fi museum. We are only about 6 blocks from Seattle Center so we headed out again on foot. I took some interesting pictures along the way and had fun with Photoshop on a few.







We all decided that the Sci-Fi Museum was actually better than the EMP. They don’t allow you to take photographs in any part of the exhibits – except the guitar tower. Matt showed off his guitar skills in the sound lab.



On the way back, I found a shirt lying on the sidewalk. I picked it up for my friend Tiana who seems to like found clothing.

Dinner was take-out pepperoni, red onion, and meatball pizza from Belltown Pizza. John sat and had a beer while we went to the video store – poor Matt – we were walking again.




I wish I had a recording of our phone conversation with Chloe. She is John & Matt’s little sister. She is 5 and seems to be on random play – she talks about random odd things for LONG periods of time – often switching subjects in the middle of a sentence. We talked about llamas, fish, fishing, motorcycles, puzzles, bubbles, Leap Pad, pizza, movies, Seattle, God, and “people who were not really dead”. I am really not sure what she meant by that last one, but I went along with it. She talked to all three of us several times before Matt finally said we had to get off the phone. It was definitely the highlight of the day.