Daughter is all moved in - it went smoothly - both job and apartment seem good.
Great! Belltown will be hopping every evening and there is lots to see and do within easy walking distance.
Glad to know she likes it so far! 
Fingers crossed. There is a lot of stuff happening on the next weeks - Seafair!!
Make sure she goes to torchlight!
Picking up on the torchlight mention - looks like lots of fun - where should she watch from - her room is on 4th and clay I think she might be able to view from her rooftop? what advice do you seattlers have for watching the parade? I guess she can also go to the seattle center earlier in the day to see the floats? (She had fun last week at the bite of seattle at the center) Any tips welcome!
I’m old enough to remember when there were two Seafair Parades in the same week. I knew a couple of “Miss Seafair” Queens personally. Ah…youth is wasted on the young.
Getting a good seat at the parade is a bit of a trick (unless you pay for reserved seating). Starting the night before, moving vans will pull up and line the curbs with chairs and couches (people buy from Goodwill, then re-donate them the next week). If she can, get a chair she can carry, group up with some other people, and stake out a position on 4th Ave very early. Take turns keeping an eye on the chairs. Since she lives walking distance, she can set up near the start at 4th and Broad, using her apt for bathroom and snack breaks.
Waiting for the parade can be fun, too. People bring food, stereos, dress in costumes - it can be quite the party for some.
saw pictures of the couches lined up - sounds crazy to me!
I remember when oldest and I would go downtown for back to school shopping at the Nordstroms sale, then sit on the curb while she read Little House on the Prarie books till the parade started. We watched it from Westlake Park. This would have been about 27 years ago.
I don’t really care about parades, especially Seafair, cause when I was little, my red hair caught the eye of the Seafair pirates and they kept threatening to kidnap me.
I had a hilarious/ embarrasing experience with one about 7 years ago though.
I was at a fundraising auction called " Pirates & Pearls" about 8 years ago at the Seattle Design Center. I wore a pirate costume I had pieced together from stuff at home, and I thought I looked amazing!
Thirty minutes in, about twenty middle aged men dressed in serious pirate garb arrived. One of them came over to chat with me about my outfit. He was about my age. So we were talking and I asked him, if he and the other men were working security and dressed up because of the theme?
He replied that " no, they were Seafair Pirates, and they often appeared at community events".
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No-duh.
I just kinda let him believe from there, that I was a recent transplant and didn’t grow up in Seattle across the street from Gertrude! But what I * wanted* to say was, " But Seafair Pirates are OLD! You are MY age!"
The pirates always kind of scared me / creeped me out. I LOVE the hydros though, and normally that wouldn’t be at all my type of thing. They used to be the only sport in town and the drivers were our sports heroes. When I was about 4-5 our down the street neighbor drove a hydro. Bill Muncey actually parked his giant van on our street when visiting and it was like a LeBron sighting for us.
They were so scary, and dragging their big curved swords along the street!
(But since I met the ones that are my age, I think they are kinda hot!
They are really nice, and do lots of good work in the community.)
I liked the clowns though, and they store the old firetrucks from the Last Resort Fire Dept, nearby.
http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Last-Resort-Fire-Department-Needs-Rescued-248665851.html?mobile=y
Unless the warehouse has been claimed by another microbrewery.
You gotta join the Vintage Seattle page on facebook, great photos & memories.
My H loves the hydros, **so **much. I do too, but for H, Seafair Sunday, is better than the Superbowl/Christmas/& his birthday, in one! ( well, probably not better than when the Seahawks won the Superbowl)
We even live within sight of the Bardahl sign.
Chip Hanauer went to the same high school as H, ( he’s almost a year older)but when we saw him a few years ago at a bookstore, H wouldn’t go talk to him, he was so in awe, so I did.
A friend of mine at the Bite( he is playing bass).
https://www.youtube.com/embed/LGKZVCjhREY?feature=player_detailpage
I just found out his dad was in a movie that was made in Seattle, with John Wayne, so now Im trying to find a way to watch it. ( dont have cable)
It sounds awesome!
https://goodbyelikeabullet.■■■■■■■■■■■■■/2013/02/11/banging-knuckles-mcq/
TORCHLIGHT!!! (I should have gone) you can watch live
I’m watching for @emeraldkity4 's hot pirate but haven’t seen him yet 
The Hawaiian riders are stupendous!
Here come the hydros!!! I love hydros which is so against type for me. <3
I think some grog is required saintfan!
My older brother was working in the Bellevue area for an internship a couple years ago. He, to my mother’s utter dismay, stayed for $1000/month in a basement apartment found on Craigslist. He wanted to save money, as a furnished apartment in a nice high-rise would be at least double that amount, and luckily the man renting the basement out was very respectable, but it stressed our mom out so, so much at first. He even had a housing stipend!
It’s the Ezell’s Chicken truck!!! mmmmmmmmm ~:>
I WANT CHICKEN!!! :((