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<\/a><\/p>\nIt started on Thursday with a day off of work white-water rafting with the fine people from my office (pictures here<\/a>).\u00a0 I’m glad I sucked it up and “risked” the trip, even though my doctor surely wouldn’t have approved.\u00a0 Everything turned out fine, in fact, it’s got me feeling like I’m pretty well recovered.\u00a0 Being that I’ve never white-water rafted before, I really didn’t quite know what to expect.\u00a0 I have to say that I loved it and I’d really like to do it again.\u00a0 The Wenatchee river was a lil high, but we still had some nice class 3 waves to ride.<\/p>\n However, the surprise win of the night goes to Or The Whale<\/a>.\u00a0 This band just rocked my socks off.\u00a0 I was apparently in an alt-country mood on Friday, because their songs just really hit me in that gotta-move-your-feet place.\u00a0 Particularly the song “Call and Response”.\u00a0 I walked out of the Tractor with two new albums that are real winners.\u00a0 Little did I know just how much of my weekend was going to spent moving my feet…<\/p>\n I headed down to the Northwest Folklife Festival<\/a> at the Seattle Center with Andy & Abby in the afternoon.\u00a0 Folklife is a hodgepodge of various musical and “other” performances spread across several stages that runs for four full days.\u00a0 We saw everything from Kenyan dancers to Texas-style Fiddling.\u00a0 Every pathway is lined with craftycrap, festival food, and street performers.\u00a0 It’s a little overwhelming.<\/p>\n We took a break in the evening to come back to my place to do some grillage on my freshly cleaned grill.\u00a0 Andy had these amazing sausages that he had made in a cooking class that he’d been saving, paired with some grilled asparagus and sauerkraut.\u00a0 I only talk about it because it was really that good and worth the text to say that it was possibly the most satisfyingly perfect meal of the weekend.\u00a0 There’s nothing like chilling with friends on the front porch watching the sun go down.<\/p>\n In fact, the contra dancing was so much fun that I ended up back with Andy on Sunday night to do it again.\u00a0 After which we had another great dinner out, and I ended up doing even more dancing<\/em> at Century with Firewallender.\u00a0 This time it was swing dancing, and I can’t say just how much fun it was.\u00a0 I had seriously forgotten how much I enjoy swing.\u00a0 She’s a great dancer, and her friends were amazing as well, which made it a great way to cap off a Sunday evening.<\/p>\n As for now… well… my legs are shot, my body is tired, and I have a big grin on my face that says “give me more!”.\u00a0 I wish every weekend could be this packed and simultaneously chill.<\/p>\n Pictures, as usual, can be found at Picasa yonder<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This has been the most amazing weekend thus far, and it’s only 2\/3 of the way over.\u00a0 Heck, it’s just been a great week.\u00a0 While I was pretty bummed that I didn’t get to go backpacking like I had hoped to, it turns out that I made the right choice. 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