the weekend of the jan 31st.

friday night i went out to a bar in Issaquah with my roommate and some of his friends. it was a good time, met some good new people and chilled there for a while. on the way home i had jack n the box for the first time ever. pretty standard terrible for you food but i won't lie, it was pretty good. saturday was a great day. met about 8 of the other interns down at pioneer square and went on an underground tour of seattle. if you don't know i'll explain the quick version of the story. 

seattle was built on tide flats so during twice a day during high tide the city would flood. in 1889 there was the great seattle fire which burned down the whole city. city decides they're going to regrade the hills around the city and use the dirt to raise the tide flats. businesses don't want to wait so they build their buildings right away. city starts bringing in the dirt and raises the roads anywhere from 12 to 30 feet in some spots so all of a sudden first floors of buildings became basements. once the city had enough money to finish off the roads and bring the sidewalks to the walls of the buildings, under the new sidewalks stayed hollow so there is now still the hollow sidewalks between the roads and buildings creating an underground. yea so there. thats about it. look it up if you want more info. it is pretty cool. also got to learn how badass seattle was back in the day. started really because of the gold rush, prostitution drugs and corruption was everywhere. seattle's first major was so badass he was open up a lawsuit as a citizen and then settle with himself the next day as the major for loads of money. what a great guy.  

after that we went to chinatown a dim sum lunch. it was interesting to say the least but a couple of the interns were asian which was very helpful. they just took care of everything for us and thankfully didn't try to get us anything too crazy and they stayed honest with us about what things were. it was chinese new year so the festival was going on while we were there. pretty cool to see some of the stuff but we were real hungry so basically just went to eat.

after lunch we went to pike place market for a while where i found the most amazing mac and cheese in the world. no joke dude. it is at a cheese factory place called beecher's cheese. i don't know what else to tell you other than you need to try it and pretty much everything they sell there is amazing. also while at pike place i ended up buying two paintings from a spray paint artist named Dan. real chill dude who is wicked talented. i talked to him for a while and i might even get a chance for him to teach me some things on how to do it. one painting was for me and one was a birthday present for my bro. ill put pics of them up later.

that was pretty much the day. that night i went to that shim show. im telling you...... check them out. sunday was the super bowl. we had some people over to our house and cooked a ton of food. i got hammered and woke up in the living room at like midnight. the next day at work SUCKED.