Pure Swank

Alrighty, my trip to Seattle was awesome last week. Ate in the space needle during a sunset, etc. Found out that the cascade mountains (washington state) are every bit as awesome (if not moreso) than the rockies. They're just as tall and a lot rockier. Mount Raineer looks a WHOLE lot like mount Fuji. Its 14 thousand feet tall (like colorado's mountains) and it sits on the opposite end of a county that starts at sea level on the west end. 0 feet to 14K feet is WAY more than anything colorado can do. Essentially, its pretty cool. Oh yeah...I spent the weekend in the RAINFOREST on the west coast of the cascades. Didn't know it was there, but its the coolest place I've EVER SEEN! Here's the lodge: http://www.visitlakequinault.com/ I was gonna post a link to pics of the rainforest, but none of them were nearly as cool as what I experienced. I mean...it was a real rainforest, mind you it was temperate climate, but every square inch of everything was covered with green stuff and slugs and bugs and a whole lot more green stuff (bugs weren't bad at all). Saw the farthest northwest point in the continental US and stood on the 80-foot cliff there. Pounding waves, cold blue water, sea otters rolling around, the whole bit. I met a town named Sequim (squim).

I'm in Spokane this week and its like a trip back to the wild west. I ate in a place called the catacombs. Yuck. Food was good but the whole thing about booth seating with bodies behind you was REALLY weird.

i was kidding. it was a good restaraunt and I didn't see any dead bodies. rotkraut (antithesis of sauerkraut) is weird.

So I get to town, right? And I see this thing thats a giant mormon temple about 1/4 mile away from my hotel. Turns out that its actually the county courthouse and they do VERY LITTLE baptising for the dead there...the talking with demons thing is still suspect. Some county courthouse. The health department next door looks like an islamic mosque. No kidding. This is a weird place.

Why Swank in the title? The place I'm working at put me up in a 4+ star hotel (nothing to back that up, but it's GOT to be) a few blocks away from the office. People come to my room in the evening just to turn down the sheets on my insanely soft bed, leave cookies, put down the lights, close the drapes, open the tv cabinet, and turn on some soft jazz music for me. Some room service dude today brought me up a FORK to the 10th floor. I walk around in a bath robe in the evenings after my soothing hot shower, drinking water from a champaign glass and looking at myself in the mirror with a sly grin. (all true) Last night I took a hot bath (in the giant bathtub next to my massive walk-in shower) just because I could! If you check out http://www.thedavenporthotel.com and check out 'guest rooms', look at the deluxe room. I'm in one and mine looks a lot better than that rattly little picture :) That swank room on the main page is just the lobby... HOLY COW!!!!!!!!