It seems like everyone is out of town for labor day weekend, including our real estate agent, so Kim and I have spent the last two evenings in the Seattle center at Bumbershoot seeing Deathcab for Cutie, Pedro the Lion, Presidents of United States of America, and many other bands. The Presidents put on the best show so far. They’re really fun and quirky to see live. Tonight we saw Nickelback and they were pretty lame. They’re immature, white trash kind of heavy rock music and I like them even less after having seen them live. At least I got some cool pictures.
In another building there was a rap off just like in the move 8 Mile. It was really weird to see all the white guys rapping. Some were surprisingly good at it. I couldn’t believe it was so open to the public though with all the swearing. For those that haven’t seen 8 Mile, the rap off is basically just an excuse to make fun off another person while rapping on stage. Usually the rappers just swear about each other, use lots of profanity and talk about each other’s mothers. Kim really enjoyed all the rhythm bands because she could dance to them.
Other than music we’ve had fun seeing the vendors. We bought a hammock that was really nice and portable. We’re going to use it on our hike tomorrow. We also got some Shea Butter, which is like a lotion made from Shea nuts in central Togo. It’s really good for smoothing out climbing callouses. Lastly we bought a really nice head scratcher. I couldn’t resist, it makes your spine tingle when you use it.