Off to Seattle

This morning Blair and Kylie dropped me off at the airport. Door to door (or is it train to plane?) service! Thanks so much guys for inviting me along on your Redwood forest trip. They really are 1st class people:

On the plane now to Seattle where I think it is gonna be cold...

I landed in Seattle and Jesse came to pick me up in his sweet ride:

We went straight out to Cougar Mountain Park to go for a run. It was raining but it always does that in Seattle so if you wanna go for a run you just man up and get used running in the rain and cold. We left at about 4:30pm so it was already getting dark which meant I couldn't really see the scenery but I think it was pretty cool. It was very rain-forestey and kinda reminded me of the West Coast. At one point we came across a massive open mine shaft with a rebar grate over it. It looked like something out of Silent Hill and we speculated about the monsters that must live down the shaft. We ran for about 12km but it had about 350m of climb in it so took us just under 2 hours.

For dinner we went to Five Guys which was a pretty tasty fast food place where there were big bags of peanuts you could eat from. It also had a ludicrous number of options on the soft drink machine. So many it had a nested menu system on a touch screen. After that we went to a place called The Seattle Bouldering Project which was a massive bouldering place (duh). I have never really enjoyed bouldering too much but it was pretty fun having so much variety and problems to climb. We then headed back to a condo that Jesse had borrowed off a work mate for the night where we ate Pumpkin Pie and drank tasty Obsidian Stout from the Deschutes Brewery in Portland.