Friday night we checked out Diesel, the bear bar and got to the Cuff at 1:15. They charged us cover but when we went for bar service they wouldn't serve! It was sort of ridiculous; two friends managed to get bar service, went to the dance floor only to have their drinks removed. It was kind of ridiculous. Instead of serving mixed drinks, they would serve us shots and chasers, which seems strange, although it was obvious they just wanted everyone to get the hell out.
We went back to the hotel and crashed. Saturday morning we went for breakfast and headed downtown to Pike Place Market. We walked over to the Space Needle, went up for a while, took the monorail downtown and shopped for shoes at Nordstrom Rack. It was still quite busy downtown for shoppers post-Thanksgiving; it was nice to see things so busy.
We went for dinner, had a quick nap, then some of us headed to the Cuff for the SML Leatherdaddy and Daddy's Boy contests. The dance room was packed, saw lots of old friends and spent a good part of the evening just catching up with everyone. The sound system was horrible so you really couldn't make out what was going on on stage, but it was enjoyable for us anyways.
We went back to the hotel afterward to change and head to the clubs. We lost a couple of friends so went back to Diesel to look for them but they weren't there so we tried Q and found them as we were in line to get in. They told us they were leaving and not to bother coming in so we all left together and went back to the Cuff. The place was much busier tonight and we had a lot of fun.
On the way back to the hotel I tripped on a construction sign (don't ask), and cut my shin. Now it is infected and I can't walk on it. I'm heading to the clinic today for some antibiotics. I also lost the cap to my front tooth somewhere on Saturday. As usual, it wouldn't be a trip to the U.S. for me without some collateral damage.
Sunday we went for brunch and tried to get into the King Tut exhibit at the Science Center but the lineup/wait was 90 minutes so we said screw it and headed to the Seattle Premium Outlet Mall instead. Nothing really to see there; we headed north and had dinner at Mi Mexico in Bellingham.
It's always a relief to get home but this was a great trip!
2 comments:
The Cuff's sound system is great… if you are on the dance floor. All the speakers point in. Off the floor, and with people chattering, yeah, pretty lousy.
The bigger problem was that there had not been any mike prep with the contestants (or the boy emcee), so they didn't know how to use that system to better effect. Must remedy that in the future.
I find that club sound systems are not very good for voice amplification. A standalone system for voice only tends to work a lot better, imo :)
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