Tuesday 8/15, I got cash after work for the French Kicks show then did my long walk and ran for a good chunk of it. Showered, ate Susan’s leftover lasagna, watched a rerun of WoF then got ready to go out. We left the house right around 8:00 and parked in our usual Comeback parking spot, walked over to Neumo’s where we bought our tickets and found out Dave doesn’t work there anymore. Since it was only like 8:20 and the French Kicks didn’t go on until 10:50 we decided to walk down to Toys in Babeland and look at all the fun things there, then back to Neumo’s but didn’t want to go in so we walked up to Vivace where I got an enormous hot chocolate and Madeline. We sat and talked there until about 10:15 about all sorts of things, but mostly boys. We walked back down and went into the show and Matt and Kim were playing and they’re actually pretty good, I was impressed. Finally the French Kicks go on and they were pretty good, though I’m sure the lead singer was either drunk or on something, kind of weird. They played a lot of their more mellow stuff though they did play a couple of hits off their first album so that was really cool. They mostly played stuff from the third album which was a little disappointing but not unpredictable. After the show we started to walk back to the car and I saw Dave standing outside talking to one of the bouncers so I said hi and we chatted for a few minutes about what he’s doing and the Muse show he got me into forever ago (and how Matt Bellamy had gotten kicked in the head on that tour so he was very cautious at that time) then we said bye cause it was freezing. Dave used to be sooo hot but he’s gained a lot of weight so he doesn’t look that good anymore and Susan didn’t even recognize him. We drove home and I went to bed, it was almost 1:00. Yikes.

Monday 8/14, Peggy had wanted to take Andre on a sea plane up to Friday Harbor so I booked the tickets for 4 of us and since Jim didn’t want to go Alix came with instead. So we picked Alix up then headed down to Kenmore Air to catch our 11:00 flight up to Roche Harbor, then the plan was to take a taxi over to Friday Harbor and fly home from there. We get to the airport and park in the lot next door then go in and immediately notice how many hot pilots and flight staff are milling around. Peggy tried to work her magic on one for me by asking where we get the maps of the San Juans, but unfortunately he didn’t take the bait. We sat for a little while then I spotted a cute pilot and was hoping he was going to be ours, and surprise, he was! We go out to our plane and it’s tiny, and Peggy asks Aaron our pilot if Andre can sit in the “jumper seat” and he says that’s fine, so in the front it’s the pilot on the left and Andre on the right, then in the second row, RIGHT BEHIND THE PILOT, there’s me, Peggy and Alix and in the third row are a couple. We taxied out onto the water and it was so cool, then we took off and I couldn’t even feel it and was only able to tell we were ascending because the water started getting farther away. We had ear plugs for the ride because the engines are so loud and we didn’t fly that high which was so cool. Alix asked me to take a picture of the mountains out my window and after I did that I took a picture of the back of our pilot’s head. We got some good pictures and finally it was time to land and that was really cool too, it was hot in fact and I immediately started fantasizing that Aaron was my boyfriend and how we could jet all over Washington in our private sea plane and have romantic weekends in the San Juans. When we disembarked I tried to flirt a little, but it didn’t work, we did however get a picture with him and since I’m standing on one side of him I’m going to try to crop it to really imagine what we would look like as a couple. I asked him if he was going to be picking us up later that day, and he said no, booo! Oh well, so we walked along the dock looking at the enormous yachts and picking out the ones we wanted, then over to the restaurant for lunch. I had a lamb burger and it was very good and after that we got some ice cream and the girl gave me so much I felt sick, I never get sick from too much food! We saw the inside of the famous hotel there then sat outside in the sun by the gardens. We were trying to kill time when this taxi pulls up so Peggy asks if he can take us to the other side of the island and he said yes so off we went. It is a really beautiful place and I really enjoyed just looking at the scenery. When we got to Friday Harbor Peggy needed to get some different shoes and clothes so she took off and we just sat around. Eventually we ended up at the book store and a little café where we continued to sit and let our food digest. Alix announced she was hungry so we went to get more food and I had a couple of her onion rings but was so full I felt sick eating them. Pretty soon we found out where we were supposed to catch our plane so we headed down the “Main Dock” and found it. It was a bigger and nicer plane than the last one but I was disappointed to see that our pilot was not nearly as cute. This did not prevent me from daydreaming that Mike had the potential to be my boyfriend though, and even more so when Peggy asked if I could sit up front with him for the ride home. So there I am, sitting next to the pilot with my hands folded neatly in my lap so he doesn’t think I’m going to try any funny business in the driver’s seat and we start to cruise out where we will taxi. He guns the engines and we start going, fast, we then start to lift off the water and it was such an incredible feeling and I’m not even kidding, it was better than sex. At least the sex I’ve had, sorry boys. My mouth was on the floor and I was sitting up really straight trying to see over the front of our plane as we took off over a corner of the island, again, it was so incredible. Our flight back was shorter but I didn’t want it to end at all, I could have just sat up there all day, with the sun reflecting off the water, the beautiful scenery of the islands below, the air coming in full blast from outside so that it felt like I was riding in a convertible plane and the semi-cute pilot sitting next to me flying this amazing sea plane. I start to see Seattle in the distance and as we get closer I realize he’s going to take us RIGHT OVER SEATTLE, and he did, we flew right between the Space Needle and Downtown, and I’m not even kidding, we were so close to the buildings that if someone were sunbathing on the roof of an apartment building I would have been able to see what color their bikini was, it was amazing! I had my hand over my mouth as we flew over because I was in such shock, it was like a video game or one of those simulator rides at Disneyland, it was crazy. So then we drop down really quickly into Lake Union and again, one of the most incredible feelings as we hit the water. It was awesome. We taxi in and get off, tell Mike how amazing it was, get a picture with him then head inside past all of the cute flight personnel waiting at the door. On the way home I mentioned in conversation that I could never go on one of those planes with a boyfriend or husband or anything because I would want to sit in the front with the pilot EVERY TIME! Then Andre says that that would be possible if I just find a pilot boyfriend. I seriously need to get on that. Peggy dropped me at my car at Mom’s and I drove home, showered and got ready to go out for Susan’s birthday. I told Susan all about the adventures and that seriously that was one of the most incredible experiences of my life. We left around 7:45 and found great parking on Broadway, walked down to Everyday Music where I proceeded to buy 2 more cds I don’t need (see Kay-See, I can’t help myself!) then we walked to the Broadway Grill. We shared a virgin strawberry daiquiri, I got a delicious salad for dinner and we shared a sour cream molten chocolate cake with vanilla ice cream and it was sooo good, though we couldn’t finish it. There were cute gay boys everywhere and one that had my bangs but they looked better on him, hmpf. We walked over to QFC so I could pick up a few essentials, we saw one of Susan’s gay bfs and he’s so hot, his myspace pictures totally don’t do him justice, he’s foxy. We then drove home and saw another one crossing the street but both had to turn when he looked toward us because we were gawking. I went to bed not long after we arrived home. What a fun day!