Exhausting but fun day
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nwhikerWe went into Seattle to Julefest at the National Nordic Museum. Been meaning to go for the past few years and just never made it.
At the last minute I decided to grab a slightly bigger bag than the one I usually carry. We were in a rental car. And I realized that my masks -I have two- were in my tiny bag and that I had none in my bigger bag.
Dh also forgot his mask.
So there we were.
We stopped at a RiteAid to buy some. Of course, they had masks at the entrance so dh grabbed one of them so he could go inside and pay a lot for a box of masks. If I'd thought about it, I'd have gone with him, and we could have each grabbed a mask and brought something we needed more than extra masks, LOL.
The 520 bridge was closed so we took I90. Then we parked near where Perry rows and got a bus to Ballard.
The event was nice. A bit crowded, but at least everyone had masks and most of the marketplace stuff was outdoors. Didn't buy much (just a small tray for Linnea with twin flowers on it, a sticker for me, and a bottle of honeymead from a place that's about 3 miles from me, but I've never gone.)
Spent a bit of time in the actual museum, which I guess dh hadn't been to since the big remodel (which was probably almost a decade ago), I've been several times. The museum's permanent collection was open to everyone today, but the exhibits weren't. It was too crowded for me to think about it, or I'd have gotten a membership to see the papercut ark that was apparently on display.
Anyhow, nice time.
What always strikes me each time I go into Seattle, and I'm not just talking about the Nordic museum: how white it is, how bad so much of it smells (smoke, both tobacco and marijuana, and urine, mainly. And this one a big street in Ballard), and how the fuck we need to do something about the unhoused population. This is getting fucking stupid, and these people do not deserve to be stuck because the city/county can't figure out how to help. They need to try things and like the swiss cheese model for covid, we need to try a lot of things and at large scale.
At the last minute I decided to grab a slightly bigger bag than the one I usually carry. We were in a rental car. And I realized that my masks -I have two- were in my tiny bag and that I had none in my bigger bag.
Dh also forgot his mask.
So there we were.
We stopped at a RiteAid to buy some. Of course, they had masks at the entrance so dh grabbed one of them so he could go inside and pay a lot for a box of masks. If I'd thought about it, I'd have gone with him, and we could have each grabbed a mask and brought something we needed more than extra masks, LOL.
The 520 bridge was closed so we took I90. Then we parked near where Perry rows and got a bus to Ballard.
The event was nice. A bit crowded, but at least everyone had masks and most of the marketplace stuff was outdoors. Didn't buy much (just a small tray for Linnea with twin flowers on it, a sticker for me, and a bottle of honeymead from a place that's about 3 miles from me, but I've never gone.)
Spent a bit of time in the actual museum, which I guess dh hadn't been to since the big remodel (which was probably almost a decade ago), I've been several times. The museum's permanent collection was open to everyone today, but the exhibits weren't. It was too crowded for me to think about it, or I'd have gotten a membership to see the papercut ark that was apparently on display.
Anyhow, nice time.
What always strikes me each time I go into Seattle, and I'm not just talking about the Nordic museum: how white it is, how bad so much of it smells (smoke, both tobacco and marijuana, and urine, mainly. And this one a big street in Ballard), and how the fuck we need to do something about the unhoused population. This is getting fucking stupid, and these people do not deserve to be stuck because the city/county can't figure out how to help. They need to try things and like the swiss cheese model for covid, we need to try a lot of things and at large scale.
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