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Sunday, January 27, 2008

How to spend only $20 on a Seattle weekend







This weekend Tony and I found ourselves with three days off and very minimal money to use to enjoy them. We did manage to have an awesome weekend however.
Friday we planned to go snowshoeing, but we got off to a later start and the trail that we wanted to go on closed at 3:30. Instead we got our little hiking pack and took ourselves to Discovery Park. It is a several thousand acre park about 8 miles north of us with 5 miles of hiking trails, a beach front and even a military base on it ( although civilians are not allowed on the base.) We hiked first to the beach where we could see Mt. Rainer and the Olympic mountains perfectly. It was a nice sunny day, probably about 40 degrees. After we walked the length of the beach and around an old non-working lighthouse, we finished our hike through the park and headed home. Our plan, since we were rubbing two nickels together in hopes to make a dime, was to make Greek lemon rice soup and a giant Greek salad. Our plans quickly turned when we were walking home from the bus and saw ( and smelled) what may be our favorite Indian place since the one we fell in love with in Virginia.
After dinner we got back home in time to start to watch Transformers, though we were much too pooped to finish it.
Saturday was a relax day. Tony had a lot of homework and tests to do, so I went to the gym for a bit. Afterwards, when he was in dire need of a break, we walked to Pike Place market to get bread, so that we could make the dinner that never came to fruition on Friday. I bought a newspaper and spent the rest of the evening reading the Sunday paper ( I don’t know how since it was only Saturday, but that is what it said on the front.)
Today ( Sunday) we were ready to go back out and explore the city, but we don’t get paid until next Friday. I have to interject with a quick story on why we are so broke J First of all, we took a month off so that we could be home for the holidays. Then as luck would have it, we arrived at our new assignment in the middle of a pay period-which is biweekly. So our first check from this assignment was a tiny one that covered bills and tuition, thus leaving us no money for our time off.
Anyway, put away the Kleenex, we have enough dough so that we are not living off ramen like college kids.
Back to my story, today I was browsing yelp.com for those of you who don’t use it, you should. People rate restaurants, bars, etc in many different towns. Well luckily someone put a list of her favorite things to do in Seattle with no money and we took her advice.
We drove-first time in about a week that the car got used- to the Conservancy and spent a good amount of time in the greenhouse enjoying the warmth and the beauty of the different types of plants that they have there. Once I got my fill of orchids, fuchsia, anthurium, cacti, mini banana trees and Tony got his fair share of carnivorous plants, we went to the Seattle Asian Art museum (both are almost free, they ask for a donation of 5 bucks, we could totally afford.) They had some astounding pieces from the year 2 bc all the way up to a mixed media piece that involved a woman’s view of the ink while she was cleaning her brushes. It was really cool. After that we came back to our place so I could try to perfect this vegan “clam” chowder that I had at Pike Place when we had money J
Anyway, we get paid on Friday, so hopefully next weekend there won’t be a huge winter storm ( the other reason that we didn’t go snowshoeing) and we will be doing some more exciting things, while still adding to our house fund.

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