The Hottest Dog

Big Ern outgrew his baby tub thing and has graduated to this tubby chair.

What have I done?!

We went to one of Zoe's coworker's house for a Halloween party. They had a map on the wall where they scratched off where they visited. I laughed that while they'd been to a few countries they had wisely avoided visiting Missouri.

Zoe borrowed my Fred Flintstone from last year.

No matter how many times I wear my Target hotdog costume, I just can't quit it.

Later I ended up at Shorty's to free my hotdog brethren from their chains. FREEDOM!

Modern Stone-Age Family

I always say that the closest you can get to the fun of doing something for the first time is to do something with someone and it's their first time. So I was excited to take Julie and Renaud out on a Halloween bar crawl in Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood for their first Halloweeny experience.

Checking in was a mess with a lot of lines, so we didn't stay long. Our French friends were surprised at how revealing some of the costumes were.

I don't think Julie ever drinks and Renaud is a baker and had to go to bed pretty early, so we were trying to think of something to amuse them in the area and why the heck not mini golf at Flatstick Pub? The fact that we've already paid for lifetime passes had nothing to do with our decision, I can assure you.

Flintstones fit check. A lot of people gave me "yabba dabbas" on the street which I appreciated. One rando even told me how Fred was his role model because he always stopped working when the bird whistle blew at the quarry. I hadn't considered that he was such a working class hero.

I had the honor of spray painting Lydia's hair orange back at the house.

Wilmaaaaa!

We let our friends borrow some of our costumes from past years.

I beat Lydia's little butt.

Yabba dabba, yabba dabba dabba do now.

Seattle Halloween

I had the solemn honor of showing Viry and Lolo around our fair city today.

The view on the 520 floating bridge across Lake Washington can be pretty amazing. There's plenty of water, some skyline, and on a clear day you can see the mountains of Olympic National Park behind it all, and this was a very clear day.

I think we have the most rundown looking Hard Rock Cafe on the planet. Like the one in Guyana looks better than this.

We were headed to check out the space needle but we had to take quite a lot of pictures first. Tourists, I tell ya.

As you walk up to the elevators that take you to the top, there's exhibits about the history of the structure covering the walls. They are in kind of an annoying spot because I feel like I was rushed through them, and you can't go back for more afterwards.

The view is amazing anyway but today was an exceptionally clear day, especially considering that Seattle is known for its constant gloomy cloudiness. We could see Mt. Rainier clearly.

There's a little bar at the top which was fun.

This wine wasn't quite done yet.

I showed up my new night workplace, Climate Pledge Arena.

There were even a few selfie stations provided that took pictures and emailed them to you. So convenient.

Another fun part of being up here was watching the seaplanes take off and land.

One floor down from the top is fun because it has a glass floor and is rotating.

Pike Place Fish Market is well known for throwing fish at each other and other antics.

Checked out the gum wall.

It was Halloween and I think there was a bit of a shortage of costumes due to covid supply chain issues. Anyway I had nothing to wear to the costume party. I grudgingly decided to be lame and recycle a costume from a past year. I had a shark and hotdog costume to choose from... but I couldn't decide and decided to be a shark eating a hotdog. 

We did a pregame shot before going to the party. Viry already had her vampire fangs in and decided to drink hers with a straw.

It did not go well.

Our Seattle friends Andres and Marcela always have the best food spreads at their parties. 

There was pumpkin carving.

Lydia tried some fancy stuff.

I stick with the classics. Classic me.

"The great pumpkin is the world's first imperial pumpkin ale! It's packed with pumpkin and roasted pumpkin seeds, and spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and allspice."

Afterward we popped back over to Wilde Rover Irish Pub in Kirkland. It seemed like the Halloween place to be last night.

The ladies said they'd never seen a shark eating a hotdog dance so beautifully before.

The costume... was hot at times. Peeing in it was also not fun. Luckily there was a lot of fabric to soak it all up.

There was group of girls all dressed like Mr. Clean complete with bald caps, and they had booze in a pretend bleach bottle. I don't know.