Had a very pleasant weekend — just staying at home and relaxing for most of it, but yesterday evening spent a good few hours visiting with Miranda, who had come out to visit. She and her friend Ryan had spent Friday with Ryan’s frend Marty down in Vancouver, WA, and then the three of them came up to Seattle on Saturday evening so that Miranda and I could visit. Was a lot of fun — I keep telling her we’ve got to get together more often than just once a year! ;)
Much of the fun of the evening was meeting Ryan and Marty. Miranda and I had made plans to go out to a couple of the clubs here while she was in town, and as the two that I know best are Neighbors and the Vogue, those were our destinations for the night. While I didn’t have any worries about Miranda fitting in at my usual haunts, it was a little entertaining shepherding Ryan and Marty along with us — cowboy hats, while not completly out of place at Neighbors, aren’t often seen in the goth/industrial domain of the Vogue!
Still, they’re both good guys, and it made for a fun evening. Trish, one of the people I’ve met at the Vogue came up and talked with Marty for a while after checking with me first to make sure it’d be okay, since I was obviously with the two of them. Her first question ‐ “So, do you feel a little out of place here?” As it turns out, they’d been a bit worried at first, but quickly realized that they were perfectly safe, and nobody was going to screw with them. Didn’t surprise me, of course, but it was fun to watch the initial reactions.
All in all, a very fun evening — a little drinking, a little dancing, and a lot of catching up, until they had to head back down to Vancouver to sleep and prepare for the drive back home today.
Always good to see old friends again. Now, who’s next to visit Seattle? ;)