So we pulled out of Vancity at about 11am yesterday, picked up Jordan from the airport and then put the pedal to the medal to get to the outlets with enough time to execute our plan (we actually downloaded the PDF map of the outlets and planned a route...yes...we have a sickness!). Frigging memorial day meant a long back-up at the border, and then we got grilled since we said we were going to seattle for "work" and we should have said that we were going for "meetings" since we are not legal to work there. blah...blah...blah. I guess the truth is that we weren't really planning to do much work anyhoo!

The outlets were pretty busy. Ended up hitting BCBG for some work clothes (which you never have to feel guity about!), quicksilver for some bikinis, puma for shoes....i better stop now. I have no clue how im going to get stuff back to Toronto. I may need to ship them from our office!

We then rolled into Seattle around 6ish and met up with Karen at her place. That's when we transformed into our new alter egos.....Cocoa (since Lu wore a chocolate brown dress), Noir (since Karen had a black dress) and Ice (since I wore white) We all had different red wigs and boas...and headed out to Erik's bday party. Our oddness was nothing compared to the rest of the party. There was a singing polar bear, everyone had to do 1-minute speeches on various pre-determined topics, and then we all had to eat a piece of the Bacon Bday cake (yes...Bacon...it was sliced and put on top of the icing...and in a middle layer too...salty and sweet not so bad together!) Ended up being WAY too late for a school night and i'm sure we are all having pretty rough days at work today. Photos: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/mellymel_alvares/album?.dir=/f477scd&.src=ph&.tok=phQV38EB0bYXKZQ_

Today the sun is shining and our office overlooks the mountains and water. sooo nice. Heading home to Karen's soon and we may hit up a friends patio BBQ. This business trip sure is rough!