Wandering the Event Waterfront, Wondering, Was I Late and Great? Or Just Late to the Date?

Topics: Events, Tourism, Waterside, Seattle, Salish Sea, Boats, Food, Catering

Alrighty, this is an event that comes “free” with the ticket to the big event that I’m attending tomorrow. Actually, last year when I attended this same event, they were adveritisng this same bonus event… and I got too nervous to ask “what/where is it” cause it seemed like everyone knew what/where the “salish sea” was, so I just didn’t go. This year, I did my research as best as I could, planned to arrive late - but great. Cause I always say, if you’re going to be late, be great.

Why Attend: Lately, I’m so interested in being more outgoing, social, and networking. Plus, I finally figured out where this event is/was, and so I wanted to see some of the sights. They advertised lots of food, hanging out on boats, and even riding on the ferris wheel. I’ve never been on our local ferris wheel cause it’s like $20 or $30 a ride!! Come on now. I’m hardly able to pay rent… not gonna be over here riding a ferris wheel haahha. And last time I went on a Ferris Wheel was amazing. In Georgia, the country, and it’d be hard to beat anytime soon. Not gonna try for $20 alone and/or $40 with a friend.

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Notes from the Event

Dude. I can’t tell if I was late, and that’s why this wasn’t so great… or was it just not that amazing even if you were on time. I really want to love this event. Because I’m pretty sure my blog from last year inspired them to improve the event this year. And they even gave me a custom QR code to use on social media to advertise “NWESKelly” and give my followers 20% off. So, you know- idk. It was personal and sweet. However, upon arrival, it was lackluster.

The event started at 4pm and I got there at 6pm. So, yes, I was late… but also their website’s chatbot couldn’t say what time the event ended. Just that it went “all night” kinda… within reason. So, arriving at 6 leave plenty of time for a “sorta all night” event. Right? But when I got there, it was first at a rooftop location. They had a greeter tell me to go over to a table to the left to check in with the next greeter. Then she had me enter my phone number into a device, plus my first and last name, then she gave me a wrist band that she scanned.

After that, I carried on to walk aroudn on the rooftop but it was super barren. I went over to the food section and only vegetarian sliders were left. I ate one and it was decent, but the moment I took a bite, a flirty catering staff came over to ask if it was cold. It was lukewarm. He told me that the power was out on the roof. They are doing construction below and the ice cream guy was using all of the electrictiy.

that was true, cuase I did get ice cream before the faux-burger. The ice cream guy gave me a small sample, and asked if it was an okay amount of ice cream and I told him it was the perfect amount.
Then the flirty caterer was also eating ice cream and asked where i’d came from. I didn’t tell him I’d just been at the food bank, didn’t feel like it hahaha. Although the evidence was in my backpack + bag I’m carrying around. But I told him the neighboring neighborhood of where I live. Then we talked about his neighborhood, how beuatiufl it is.
Then a drunk guy started talkign to us about how he hadn’t been up to this rooftop in over 20 years but he showed us a picture of tha last time he was on this rooftop, it was for his wedding reception. It was him with his arm over his wife (in a wedding dress’) neck/shoulder.
- I congratulated him on them still being together.
- Cause he said he sent a similar pic of their wedding reception picture to his wife. He showed us both. Then he showed us a picutre he’d taken of a seagull beacuse “my wife likes birds” and hten he told us about how the crows always chase him on his walks with his dog every day and come attack his hat, cause they want dog treats. So now he gives the crows dog treats each day. Then he told the flirty caterer he was fine to shake his hand, even though the caterer had on gloves - his justfication was that he had dogs… but then he corrected himself to the caterer, saying, “not that i’m saying you’re a dog”. I told them both I’m allergic to dogs. lollll.
Later, I saw this guy hanging out with a young blonde girl the entire night. Did his wife know here? I don’t know.

While on the rooftop, I took a glamcam picture. They texted to you and also had a gallery included (with all the photos) and there were 7 pages with about 6 images per page each - some pictures were the same persond doing two attempts of the glamcam. I was surprised there weren’t more. You’d think there would be hundreds. Then said goodbye to the flirty caterer - lol, bless him - and followed instructions to head down to the street level and visit a boat.

The woman who walked me over to the boat asked what I do related to events and I said I write blogs about them. She said she loves to write, mostly poetry. She also asked my blog name. I told her - KellyTutors.com. Then I told her she should check out Suno.com and turn some of her poetry into music. She said she’d check out both suno AND Kelly Tutors. I’d be surprised if she does - but if so - whattup. You’re impressive/amazing for reading this much already.

Then the boat was down the (name of whatever a boat/marina walkway is - it has a special name - i looked it up: gangway) - The boat was super crowded with people drinking and putting up the sail for fun. It was kinda gimmicky, but, sorta cute. Mostly it just reminded me of how much I don’t enjoy boats. Really. I hate going on boats. You’re trapped there. Though, I did like when I was actress on a boat in Shanghai. That was amazing and some of the best weeks of my life.

I only stayed on that boat for moments, cause it wasn’t my scene - so crowded, drunk laughing, a boat, people apologizing for existing (cause it was so cramped so people just apologized for taking up space), not my scene. So then I left.

and on my way up to the boat, some girls were talking about how they thoguht they knew me, but iddn’t. But they were about it so loud, liek right in front of me, while not addressing me. Just saying, “I thought I knew her” while pointing at me and looking at me. It was so weird.
Then on my way out, I saw that a guy was scannign everyone in, so that made me remember shanghai, again - and how much I stood out there… and how much I am invisible here. It’s a blessing and a curse lol.

Next I walked to a pier - which they’d avertised ahead of time in the marketing for this event, saying, “we’re not telling you waht’s gonna be there, but you’re gonna like it” something along those lines. It was smores. At a fire pit. That was kinda surprising. And now, as I write this blog, I still smell like a campfire. So that’s nice.

Then I went walking a bit more to this restaurant that had food in the upstairs. The food was alright. They’d run out of half of it… ont he boat the’yd run out of food… and on the rooftop ealier they’d run out of food too.

Then at the restaurant, they were giving away free tickets to go on a ride, like a 4D theater ride, and a ferris wheel - you could use the tickets for up to 1 year from today. I asked for a second set of tickets for my daughter, and they told me not to tell anyone what they said as a response. So I won’t. But I will ride the ferris wheel FINALLY another day. Maybe or not with her ;)

Then, there was another boat to tour, I walked on it and they were nice. They said they’d recently had a private party where people did karoake. I asked if they ever have public karaoke parties. They said not yet. But I said they should. I could see that being fun. I’d take a risk and join and do karaoke on a boat hahaha.

Then, there was one final boat you could tour. But I skipped that. Enough boats. There was also one more restaurant you could go to, to get some clam chowder, but I jsut didn’t feel up to it. It was just not a lot of people, not to much camaraderie, and I felt like it was easy enough to disappear… no one hardly knew you were there and no one knew you’d left, you know?

Tomorrow, their big convention should be more fun - though - I may leave for an hour or two of it to attend an event mid-day, nearby but downtown, on “Go Fund Yourself” and learn to fund your business. I could use it :). Then I can afford $20 ferris wheel rides.