Waking up at the Poulsbo Walmart Friday morning we got right on the road to Tacoma. We just missed the more expensive toll cost of $5 which starts 7/1. We had what was supposed to be a free birthday burger for Isaiah at Red Robin but since we didn't register the birthday gift card until that day we couldn't use it at all. After waiting an hour for food at the Albany "Dirty Bird" (as Joel calls them) while celebrating my last day of work and Annie's Birthday with co-workers and this awfully frustrating experience they are defintely on the ban list. Sorry Dirty bird but you had it coming. Isaiah has done his homework and this weekend in Tacoma is the "Taste of Tacoma" free event. Yep that's right, free! Our kind of place. We took the event shuttle to Point Defiance park which is one of the nation's 10 largest urban parks. The event was huge and yet we only saw a small fraction of the park which also boasts a zoo and an aquarium. Several booths had free samples so we filled up on tiny Morningstar garden burgers, fudge and pickles to name a few. A local casino puts on the event for the community and unbelievably pays for five different stage acts...at a time! A very impressive display but for all practical purposes fairly obnoxious if you liked more than one band who played simultaneously. We watched a couple good local bands and a couple not so good. There was also 5 comedians who performed and we saw them all. Each comedian brought a completely different perspective but couldn't resist the temptation of talking about how their career has clearly "peaked" as they performed within a beer garden tent to Isaiah and I and a handful of drunk people.
Our unanimously agreed favorite was the last comedian Gabriel Rutledge. I laughed until I cried. Very funny. Isaiah managed to not get picked on but I did get called "Nicole Kidman" and teased for my "tramp stamp." I swear I didn't know they were called that when I got it. For dinner I had a Gyro that wasn't even close to the Gyro's I grew addicted to in Germany but fairly good anyway. We toured the beautiful rose garden and then took the event shuttle back. As we "turned off the lights" and got ready to drift asleep we saw fireworks going off. It must have been from closing out the festival but we were in a perfect viewing point to see them erupt over the sky. On Saturday we went back to the festivies and saw another 3 hilrious comedians. Our favorite for the day and mayve overall was Brad Upton. He mostly talked about how stupid "20 somethings are" and Isaiah now being 30 just laughed and laughed. We also unfortantely were witness to a wannabe 80's hair band. It was bad...real bad. -A
Ha ha...you do look a bit like Nicole... and food??? What about the beer?? It's great to read your daily adventures.
ReplyDeleteThanks for checking out the trip blog. Let us know if you have any tips. We have nowhere near the appetite our van has. I had some good seafood in Seattle. Amanda had fantastic ice cream. We went to Red Hook the other day, which was awesome. Alot of free samples along the way. I know, nowhere near as interesting as your food and beer screensaver slideshow that used to get my mouth watering every day.
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