Just in case anyone is still reading this… these boys are harded to keep track of than puppies! I’ll be there, maybe late, but maybe early, with one two or all three of the big puppies. I’ll know as soon as I find any of them!
See you soon! In about 2 hours, if we’re lucky.
First Post-Swampfest posting! Yay me!
We had a wonderful time. Lady Cheek was very glad I managed to convince her to come. And I’m very glad I was able to do so as well.
Fantastic putting names to faces and faces to names. cherry, I promise I’ll read your e/mail over and over until I manage to remember yours! I’m so sorry I kept forgetting it.
Way too many things to say, so…yay! Good times had by all.
And my cheeseburger was de-lish!
So, there were no arrests?? 
I will be at the Snohomish Airport taking helicopter lessons Monday – that’s just what a great time I had! Oh, if any one is wondering, I went back to Doc Maynard’s. There was some great music there!
No, but no one could convince my husband his pants were unbuttoned. I told him when he walked in, then two other people did too. He ignored all of us.
He wants me to apologize to anyone who :eek: upon the sight. He was tired, but still. :rolleyes:
**Mr. Taters ** and I had such a blast. The hubby kept saying over and over what a great bunch of nice people were there. It was wonderful meeting everyone in person and assigning a face to the name and personality.
Many, many thanks to Aguecheek for taking the ball and running with it. You did a fantastic job…and don’t go saying “aw, shucks” and scraping the ground with your toe. Thanks so much for everything you put into this for contacting us and keeping us in the loop.
Picunurse, the placard you painted was so neat. Swampy will treasure that. He was already discussing where he was going to display it on his return home. Didja see how he was beaming with pride? I hope everybody remembered to sign it for him.
The Underground Tour was a hoot! My dinner, although I didn’t eat but a couple bites, was very good. My tummy started giving me some problems upon arrival to the restaurant, so I was finding it very difficult to eat. This was probably all my fault as hadn’t eaten anything all day except a couple of onion rings at Doc Maynards. :rolleyes:
Okay, I have to upload the pictures now so I can get busy captioning them and posting them. I’ll provide the link in a later post.
Flying a helicopter is the most fun you can have with your clothes on!
So what I do it rent a helicopter, take off all of my clothes, and it’s the most fun I have…
Have a great time! And LMK what your Sao Paulo contacts say.
The DopeFest was fun! That was only my second time in Pioneer Square. I’d been meaning to take the Underground tour for a long time, but never got round to it. I pulled my copyrighted ‘So, do you come here often’ on Ruth, the girl at the table outside of Doc Maynards. (I like saying that to women who obviously work at a place. Usually gets a laugh.) She said I looked exactly like ‘Todd’. Apparently she thought she knew me. Weird, eh?
I ate entirely too much dinner. Scotti and I found a pub and I had a Cobb salad there around 2:30 or 3:00, before going on the Underground tour. Didn’t finish it, it was so big. I grabbed some espresso at Tully’s too. I guess we had dinner about – what? Five hours later? After that big lunch, I was only a bit peckish. Nevertheless, I ate my entire Dungeness Crab and Shrimp Fettucine and a piece of bread. bloat I’d ordered a cup of clam chowder, but they forgot to bring it. I didn’t want to be charged for it and not get it, so I got my cup of soup. Absolutely didn’t need it; but I’m a sucker for clam chowder. (It was tasty, but I like the chowder at Stephanie’s here in Birch Bay better.) Did I say bloat? Now we’re approaching a dangerous overload! Can’t resist coffee! Hey, I have an idea! Let’s pour some liquid into an already-overloaded stomach!
So anyway, back at Doc Maynard’s. When Scotti introduced me, I heard ‘You’re Johnny L.A.?’ :eek: I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Ah, well. In the immortal words of Popeye the Sailor, ‘I yam what I yam. Agagagagagagaga!’ 
I guess I crawled into my rack around 00:30. When I woke up, the clock said 06:14. Yikes! I may have to take a nap later. But first, a pot of coffee…
It was good to be able to meet folks, and the DopeFest was a lot of fun. The Underground tour was a hoot, and I don’t think I’ve ever seen that many people on a tour at once. The painting was nifty, as has already been mentioned. And once it finally happened, dinner was good (the restaurant wasn’t really ready for a group our size, so we loitered in the bar for a while beforehand).
Howdy y’all! I’m sneaking in a post from a kiosk at the Doubletree Hotel at the SeaTac airport. Just let me say, it was a blast! I sooooooo enjoyed meeting everyone. The placard Picunurse made will be a forever treasured memento. Everybody signed it. I felt like I was in high school and asking everybody to sign my yearbook. Thanks again to Aguecheek for being our appointed (he reminded me how I did that. LOL!) leader. The tour of underground Seattle was unbelieveable. I even bought the book and have been enjoying reading it off and on while I continue to slave away at work here in Seattle. Dinner was WUNNERFUL! I met all kinds of fantastic Dopers! Swampfest was a big success! WOOHOO!
Any word on the photos?
The links are here, hon.
It was so nice to meet you!