murder mystery festival in langley.
finally getting around to writing this blog post even though it is now after the fact.
saturday, february 23rd, 2008
so, we took the ferry into langley from mukilteo, and went downtowng.
our hotel was on the outskirts, like a five minute walk away from everything. lol. it was weird, though, no one was in the office and it was just towels and laundry and shit.
there was this phone near the door that has a number attached to it, and you call that number to let the owner know you are there. then they give you a code which you type in, and that opens up this lock where the key is stored. and then you use that key to get in! it was the cheapest hotel around, and it was like, i think $80 a night. everything else was at least $100. but the thing is, it was actually pretty nice. fully furnished with plates and stuff. fridges. microwaves. televisions. etc. fantastic!!!!! bed was comfy too. shower was slightly nasty so i didn’t take a shower. because bathrooms that are not 100% clean gross me out >__>
cafe assassiner was the name of the game!
the people of the town who were ‘involved’ in the game were dressed up.
this lady here, however, is not one of those people. she just dressed up for amusement purposes, with her daughter. most amusing.
went from place to place basically, collecting infos. you collect one tip from each location, to get a total of 64. it’s a way of forcing you to enter each store and hopefully buy something. i’m sure it does well for them. the town of langley is actually surprisingly green and stuff. it’s pretty fucking neat. lots of organic foods and local foods!
this is outside the little tiny langley museum, which is largely run by cute old people. ^__^ see that little bucket on the bottom there? it’s a coin jar thing. i asked some old man how they open it and he had no idea. turns out, though, there is a key spot that opens it up. so cool. inside the museum there were old yearbooks and stuff. fun. the old guy was talking to lenny and apparently he said that there’s like nothing to do in langley and that living in freeland was better.
this is the dead body. hahaha hohohoho.
hallmark was there filming something, so we had to sign some release form to say that they can use our image in their show. i don’t know why they were filming exactly, but i guess nbc was also there.
i bought some soap because it was cheap!! what else. i don’t know.
they really liked things that magnify?!!! and so did we?!!
this antique store had a row of these weird figurines, all of whom were just… singing. it was like, trippy.
another cool store with cool imported hats. this is some kind of wedding hat (really long in the back) from turkmenistan.
same store had this awesome chess set from uzbekistan. in this store, i also found out that my fucking necklace that is “moss jade” is really fucking AGATE. that costs like $1. owned. owned so fucking hard.
a neato planter.
oh yes we had this really nice dinner at a restaurant called “fish bowl”… the gnocci was sooo amazingly good. mmmmmm. and my crab cakes were pretty good too. it was probably the most expensive restaurant there but tasty as fuck! MMMM!!!!!
that pretty much ended our night, and then we went back to the hotel and like, watched fucking “forrest gump” because it was on television. lololol.
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sunday, february 24th, 2008
this bridge was scary as fuck. i could barely cross it the entire time. cry. hahahaa. but finally got to the other side, only to find out that the other side was a dead end essentially. so we had to walk back after a little bit of time. :[
broom-rape. the best flower ever.
yes.
beach beach.
i love this shit cause it looks like a hand!!!
uber mossy.
fisherman.
oh no we didn’t build this oh no.
yes he is alive. we went to this one beach which i thought was disgusting because it was covered with crabs and slugs and blargHHHAGhGHhh. lenny loved it though. there were a lot of little crabs. pics of them to come. and videos. oh yes, the videos are good.
after our day trip to the park, we went back to the middle school auditorium in langley to find out about the murder mystery festival and who did it. here is the culprit. i forget her name even. there were quite a few people there, though.
here is everyone.
the trip back was beautiful. here are some shots from it.
“do not flush foreign tourists down toilets!” on the ferry.