Seattle Trip Recap Part I

Even though my post-birthday trip to Seattle was only a few days, the GF and I accomplished quite a bit. Because of this, I’ll split this post up over a couple of days so nobody gets too bored reading through it.

The drive down was amazing. The sun was out and I actually got a terrible T-Shirt tan through the moon roof of the boat we call a car. As with many border crossing travelers, my main concern on the way down south was passing trhough American customs. If you’ve followed my adventures with customs then you’ll agree, that these people generally don’t like me very much…

Until now! Crossing from Canada into the US on Thursday was probably the most pleasent border crossing experience of my life. The couple in the car behind us were screaming at each other with the windows down so I made up their conversation. It was similar to the way John Conner yells into the HAM radio in Terminator Salvation, “WE’RE DEAD! WE’RE ALL DEAD!!!” But my experience when we got to the customs agent was amazing. Dude loved me for some reason and even did a little jig in his booth when I answered all of his questions. Okay, I guess you really had to be there.

We checked into the Sheraton on 6th and Pike and looked out onto Pike Market which was amazing. When we arrived it was too late to explore, so we set up shop and took a walk around town. We found a downtown theatre showing UP in 3D so we had to check it out. Here’s a quick and dirty review:

AMC (the theatre showing UP in 3D) gave us re-usable 3D glasses so we brought them home. The flick started off with a great little short called Partly Cloudy or something of the matter. As always, Pixar goes above and beyond many expectations with their detailed work and their attention to emotion and character. The then continued into UP which had one of the best beginnings to a film that I’ve ever seen. If you know the plot of UP then this won’t be news to you, but for those who don’t you’ll learn to appreciate the pace of a flick and how to present an amazing back story before the film begins. Once the actual story got started, we were all smitten. The GF cried like crazy throughout which is always a good sign. I saw Russel – my 9-year old alter ego and watched as Pixar through amazing visuals wrapped around a touching story once again. I think UP ranks just behind The Incredibles and slightly ahead of Wall*E.

So that was the first night and I’ll cap it all off with a quote from Dr. Lee: “Dude. You came all the way to Seattle to watch a movie?”

Yup!