Seattle, WA

So, Seattle. In Seattle, we stayed with my awesome friend Courtney. I've known Court since Middle School, so we go way back. She moved to Seattle a few years ago, so I was super exited a, to have somewhere to stay, and b, that we got to party! As we drove into Seattle (well, a few hours before) we were amazed by the mountains. My poor geography here ended up embarrassing me once we got there and talked to Court about the mountains. Grand Teton and Mt.Rainer are pretty important. Check out how pretty it was simply to get gas up here:

So, the drive. First, mountains. Wow. That one may or may not be in No.Cal., but it is a mountain and we did see it on our drive up. So then we get to Portland. I have never been so happy to be stuck in traffic. We loved the rivers, the bridges, all that Pittsburgh-esque crap. And we knew that historically, its an uberhip city. What we heard from Court and the other Seattleans(...Seattlites? "Seattle residents are known as Seattleites." Thank you, wikipedia.) was that it is too hip for most. I think she might be right. I don't like being in a city where everyone thinks they're the coolest. But, who knows. That might just be a related (not sure if you could count them as sister cities....I think Vancouver is Seattle's sister and Portland is maybe their cousin). Anyway, so the traffic finally lets up and were on our way into Seattle. Courtney lives right outside the city in a town called Lake City. She has the most incredible view of anyone that I know from her sweet apartment:

However, Wiki says: Despite the presence of many other businesses and public art displays, many outside of the area think of Lake City only in terms of its many used car dealerships.
Poor Lake City.
Please excuse the crappy quality of photos. Unfortunately, this is when I realized that I no longer had my camera charger, and thus could no longer take any pictures. How I forgot this is beyond me. It's not Boyf's fault that his photos are horrible by my photo-snob standards. It's about 7+ years old my my estimate, and has something like 3megapixels. Oh well. At least we were still able to document the rest of the trip, even if they're not really frame worthy.
So, Seattle. Sweet view, good people. Then we went downtown, where I saw more good people. Good, wasted people. Not sure if we were just in the drunkards part of town or there was some kind of holiday that we didn't know about, but we got into town for dinner around 7pm and 90% of those we encountered were wasted. There were drunkards out on the patio, drunkards in the Thai food/bar establishment, homeless looking street performer type drunkards, and I'm not sure what our waitress was up to. She was just....spacey. However, all of these folks were harmless. We even saw one girl who swear to god, looked exactly like Britney Spears when she had those horrible hair plugs after she shaved her head. It was other worldly. The Thai food, by the way, was amazing. But, I had a hard time finishing it. Why you asked? Well, apparently there are about 2 weeks out of the year that it hits above 90 in Seattle. We had come at exactly that time. So, a city that only really truly needs A/C 2 weeks out of the year tends not to install it in many of the common establishments. Thai curry+ hot hot heat+ hot hot food= difficulties. I tried my hardest to look up where this place was, but definitively, I cant be sure. I used cash apparently, so its not on my credit card statement. Our next stop, The Whiskey Bar, is. What a great spot. I had a whiskey ginger and some kind of awesome cucumber whiskey beverage. So yum. And the bartender was amazing. So personalable, and he even hooked us up a bit with the bill n'at. Such a sweetheart. Then, we walked back and Court drove us back to her place, where we read her amazing coffee table books and went to bed. In the mornin', she made us eggs, explained to us what a Banannagram was, and sent us on our merry way. We had a great time with Court and chillin' in Seattle in general.
Next stop: Lolo, Montana. YEEEEEE HAWWWWW