Damn. time gets away. So much for the post-a-day thing. Well, here’s another picture for you that I took last weekend of beautiful Downtown Spokane.
Taken with 400 speed film. I had it on Aperture priority and I can’t remember what the shutter speed was.
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Taken with my old Pentax SLR on 400 speed film. Raf had the digital.
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So. The last two days of our trip. We drove up the coast yet again and ended up in Long Beach, WA where we had a reservation at the Whale’s Tale Motel. Oh. My. God. What a shit-hole. The place was disgusting. Seriously. The wall was all carved up, the “couch” was a really, really uncomfortable, old, futon. The carpet was dirty. And they didn’t even bother cleaning the coffepot! I felt like I was totally duped. The price of the place was not cheap. At least for us. I expected something much nicer. Raf was pissed. He refused to stay there. He decided to walk around town a bit to see if there were any vacancies anywhere else. There wasn’t. Not in Long Beach. But one person said that there might be a vacancy at the Sunset View Resort 11 mile north in Ocean Park. We decided to try it. He went into the Whale’s Tale’s (horrible excuse for an) office and demanded our money back. The manager was nice enough to do that, which I will give him credit for. And then we drove up the coast. If they didn’t have a vacancy we were planning on driving home that night. I was so hoping they had a vacancy.
We finally got there and couldn’t believe how gorgeous this motel was. I was afraid it would cost a fortune to stay there, but we were willing to pay anything so we wouldn’t have to drive home. Raf went in to get us a room and, sure enough, the had one! AND it was only a few dollars more than the horrific Whale’s Tale! And the room was NICE. Very clean. Just what one would expect. We decided to wander around and couldn’t believe how awesome this motel was! The back area had a path leading right down to the beach, there was a really nice, enclosed sauna and spa, volleyball and tennis courts, and a really nice picnic area. It exceeded our expectations immensely. We will be going back.
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I watched Grey Gardens this morning and then was prompted to clean my house (gee, I wonder why). When I was going through my closet I found a rather Edie-esque scarf. I put it on and arranged it the way Little Edie would and began to quote the film to my husband. And then a self portrait session session ensued. Yes, I’m having fun 🙂Grey Gardens is a very interesting film. Among many other things I see it as something like an epilogue to Edith Wharton’s House of Mirth, or a real-life Tennessee Williams play. It’s fascinating. The two Beale Women are amazing characters. You really can’t make this stuff up.
I had no idea it existed until last week when I checked it out from the library. I had no idea it was a cult classic. I can see why it is. I can’t stop thinking about it.
Here is some video referencing the quote above:
you gotta love Little Edie. Seriously.
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Image via CrunchBase I now have a MySpace page. Do you? I need friends! I am such a loser right now. I only have 4 friends and one of them is Tom, the generic friend one gets when they are on MySpace.
Check out my page. My username is CraftyMoni.
I even have the ubiquitous loud background and song that loads when the page loads. I’m still not so sure I get it though. Does that make me old? ugh.
I still owe you the my last vacation day story. I will post on that later. I’m having too much fun on MySpace right now.
