{"id":946,"date":"2008-07-25T07:01:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T14:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=946"},"modified":"2008-07-25T18:00:50","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T01:00:50","slug":"almost-famous-at-alki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/almost-famous-at-alki\/","title":{"rendered":"Almost Famous at Alki"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning our house is chock-a-block with jetlagged Austrians, they’re stacked like cord wood down in the basement. (If you’ve been to Austria, you know they are very skilled at stacking. They are a stacking people, a nation of stackers. ) Last night, we took them for pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) which I swear is good for jetlag and just about anything else, After pho we headed down to Alki Beach where we came across the sight of a blazing beach house<\/a>. Perhaps more upsetting than the site of a house on fire was the fact that people would not get the hell out of the way, already. People, people. Make way. The car in front of us came to a full stop to gawk, the street was full of people, meanwhile, SOMEONE’S HOUSE IS ON FIRE. A-hem. A public service note: If there is a a fire or other emergency get the hell out of the way.<\/p>\n

We were wrapping up our promenade as the sky was blacking with smoke, but it was a truly lovely evening at the beach before that – the weather was warm enough for shorts and a t-shirt, the volleyball sand courts were in full use by gorgeous boys and girls (something for everyone!) and a group of people had set down a dance floor made out of big cardboard boxes and were involved in some serious stepping to Latin beats.<\/p>\n

Last week we were at Alki with Janelle from Intelligent Travel – same place, different diversions. I wrote about our encounter with the paddlers from the Intertribal Canoe Journey here<\/a>, but Janelle has give West Seattle and Nerd’s Eye View a lovely write up on National Geographic’s blog<\/a>. Her post comes complete with my 16 second screen test. I’m sure that the Travel Channel now thinking that Samantha Brown needs more than a working vacation and should be replaced in the interim by someone shorter and more Jewish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning our house is chock-a-block with jetlagged Austrians, they’re stacked like cord wood down in the basement. (If you’ve been to Austria, you know they are very skilled at stacking. They are a stacking people, a nation of stackers. ) Last night, we took them for pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) which I swear is … <\/p>\n


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