Bruno 28 here from Scotland Oct. 19-21---TE dinner!

[teigyr]

Wahine, would be great if you could come up!

[Bruno28]

Do you know Carmelita's? It's a vegetarian restaurant

You're going to make a Scottish person eat vegetarian food??? Would that be deep fried?

Hello everybody - looking forward to meeting you all. I'm just back from a week's holiday in Ireland.They don't do vegetarian either Life is just one long round of holidays for me at the moment. I'm trying to re-focus my work/life balance after a particularly crap year. I may be going too far the other way

I'll be delighted to meet anyone who can come for diner and am happy to play the role of resident expert on Scottish culture for those of you with keen interest in the motherland (but be aware that I'll probably be making most of it up).

I'm sure the vegetarian food will be wonderful Do they do vegetarian haggis? Something of a contradiction in terms but delicious none the less.

http://www.macsween.co.uk/haggis/con...at=3&PageID=20

For any haggis aficionados - and I'm sure there are many of you out there- Macsween's is the best.

[mimitabby]

We don't HAVE to do Vegetarian. Perhaps a steak house would be more appropriate??!

[Bruno28]

I'm very cosmopolitan for a Scot. I've eaten salad.

I'm really fine with veggie food. I can always pick up a hamburger on the way home.....

[salsabike]

We will ask the restaurant if they can make you a chip buddy.

[Bruno28]

We will ask the restaurant if they can make you a chip buddy.

btw it's a chip butty - chips on buttered bread (in case the chips weren't high enough in cholesterol). Cholesterol is considered a vitamin in Scotland.

[mimitabby]

I am getting quite the education!

[Bruno28]

I am getting quite the education!

[Xrayted]

Hey there. Kitsune and I will be there. We need a decent, bike friendly hotel in the area though. Any suggestions?
We'd also love to do a ride that weekend if anyone is up for it. We'll use it as a small vacation.

wahine - we'd love to see you again. come on along.

[Eden]

We need a decent, bike friendly hotel in the area though. Any suggestions?

when we go to races we usually avoid the issue by not asking.... we just take the bikes in - hey they are luggage to us. So far no one has had any problems with it. If its the host hotel we can even take them in past the front desk.....

I'll have to check my calendar, but this sounds like a fun event to try to make!

[chickwhorips]

If I have enough AK miles to fly down, I'll try to make it. Sounds like its going to be a blast and I've never been down to Seattle, well except to fly though.

What are hotel rates like during that time?

[Bruno28]

if you all are finished dinner and are lingering over desserts or drinks, I would love to stop by to say hi.

I have been known to linger over drinks

Hope you can make it Chick!

Quite a party we have developing here - I'm looking forward to meeting everyone.

[teigyr]

cwr - sent you PM.

Lingering over drinks is the best kind! I've been reading over your posts it looks like we'd all have a blast.

[salsabike]

Chick, would love to have you too! Not sure what the hotel rates are but they must be off-season by then. And the season may be too, so to speak, so just in case anyone wants a ride alternative if the weather is really awful--Ummelina's Spa downtown is SO nice. Quiet, warm, facials, massages, etc. Hmm. Makes me want to take tomorrow off and go do the Ummelina's aromatherapy bath.

[kelownagirl]

I wanna come!! How far is it to Seattle from here? It's 5 hours to Spokane... And 5 hours to Vancouver. Maybe 8 hours? That's a long way for one day I guess....