getting there

got picked up for the airport at richard’s house, where i got to finally meet his silkies (rescued from the ucdavis picnic day hatching exhibit):

actually one of those silkies is really a bantam cross.

(more chick pics here, here, and here.)

we flew alaska airlines. i was the only one out of the group to notice that each overhead luggage bin had a poem written on it like so:

(more overhead poems
here, here, here, and here. i think i’m going to make a musical out of them.)

seattle tac art can get kind of weird:

but i liked this one. these are meant to be birds…

and they’re made up of fish!

of course i didn’t notice til they pointed it out to me that we were taking up the entire shuttle bus to the car rental agency:

so the hotel we were staying in was like one of those suite dorm deals. everyone got their own room and there was a common bathroom, kitchen, and living room. not to mention a balcony. the view was great, although this picture is more of my breasts:

the kitchen was suspiciously large. it had two huge refrigerators and cupboards big enough to fit richard inside:



it’s almost some kind of artistic womb symbolism.

we toured some island where i took obsessively large amounts of pictures, mainly of birds:

we came across some totem poles:

i still can’t tell the difference between ravens and crows, but this guy was photogenic anyways:

we found a small bit of beach:

lost in the “woods”:

statue outside the aquarium, which we didn’t have time to explore:

off the island, local wildlife:

on campus, i found a few quirky things:

black squirrels!

in the women’s bathroom:

someone was really excited about this i guess:

i took a few pictures of people from our group, but not many. the majority were taken before and after a painfully delicious catered dinner our first conference day.

lillian volunteered to pose in the stones for me!

gina and susie!

yeun and gena!

gina ina gena lillian!

richard the mothman

richard the barfly

back home we go. we stopped at an authentic roadhouse for dinner. chris and i were pleased– the rest? not sure. chris took this for me since it was in the men’s bathroom:

here i am alone in the motel room near the seatac:

maja’s cat awaits her return!

good note to end on.