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I spent
all that time writing yesterday about my Independence Day Weekend, and I totally spaced what Shobhit and I did on
Thursday night!
We returned to the First Thursday Art Walk in Pioneer Square. Just one month after the last one we went to. This now makes
five of this specific neighborhood's Art Walks that I have gone to; two were in September and November of last year; now this year we've gone in May, June and July. Oh, I didn't even realize until looking it up while writing this very paragraph that we've now gone three months in a row.
We might have skipped July, honestly, except that I had suggested Danielle come with us sometime to that one, and she had confirmed she had the day off on July 2. But, she texted me that day that she'd have to cancel because she was working the next day, wasn't feeling that well, and needed to rest. So, now I'm hoping we can get her up here for First Thursday Art Walk in September. (She came once before for a different one, the Belltown Art Walk. I think the Pioneer Square one is the best, although Belltown arguably comes in a relatively close second.) We won't be able to do August because Shobhit and I will be in Amsterdam. In fact, on Thursday, August 6, Shobhit and I will be returning
to Amsterdam from our three-day detour to Brussels. But we're still scheduled to arrive back in Amsterdam at 1:50 p.m. local time.
It's just as well we take a break from it anyway. It's also just as well that Danielle wasn't able to make it: this was the quietest First Thursday Art Walk we've ever done. My theory is this had to do with a combination of World Cup diverting people's attentions, plus the timing in relation to the 4th of July holiday weekend. The 4th itself landed on Friday, which meant Art Walk occurred the evening before, when people who are
usually in town may very well have left town for the holiday already. There's a lot of visitors right now but most of those visitors are probably here for World Cup reasons.
Anyway, in the end I'm kind of glad Danielle didn't make it for this one, because it would have been inherently disappointing. There's usually a concurrent, public event with substantive free food hosted by LMN Architects that Shobhit and I like to check out, and that venue was simply closed up this month. I texted Danielle later that hopefully we can just try this again in September. But, we'll just do it with her eventually regardless; these Art Walks happen monthly after all, and will continue indefinitely. It's not like we have any kind of strict deadline here.
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So, Shobhit met me at work at 4:30 Thursday afternoon, and I left a few minutes early, at 4:25. This also made us earlier than usual for a whole bunch of regular venues, especially since we skipped the LMN location and that typically kills some time. And multiple other venues either had nothing going on or just had the exact same art they had last month. So Shobhit and I cycled through pretty quickly this time; in fact I only took four photos while touring the usual art venues.
I still created
a photo album, since we went ahead and checked out Seattle Art Museum as well, which is also free on the first Thursday of every month. We were able to just walk in and get tickets, and we checked out a couple of the temporary exhibitions, one of which, "
Monochrome: Calder and Tara Donovan," was
very cool. I took 14 photos at Seattle Art Museum alone, and thus combined all the evening's photos into one album; I also included this one in my
Seattle Art Museum collection of albums.
We did stop at Mirabelle by Orphee as usual, after the Art Walk but before pivoting to the Art Museum. Shobhit ordered two dishes, one the spreads appetizer with bread that we had once before; the other a rather expensive ($29)
macaroni & cheese, which was curiously lacking in creamy cheese sauce. Shobhit theorized that sauce was removed to make it vegetarian, but I don't know why there would have been any meat in their cheese sauce; I suspect this is just how he makes it. It was very high quality but not my favorite, because I prefer my mac & cheese creamy.
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