So due to the fact that I am still not working, no big vacation for us this Spring Break. I decided to do some fun local activities with the kids that we never do and invite other friends that are also home this week. So today we decided to play Seattle tourist with my friend, Wendy, my kids and three of her kids. Wendy and I could host our own reality tv series I am certain of it. Today was an episode of "Eastside Housewives visit the Inner City". I stayed up too late last night reading a trashy novel so the kids were having to pull me out of bed this morning. I decided to skip the shower and primping because I figured who was going to see me at the Seattle Aquarium? Fish? Plus, being any where around the waterfront or Pike Place Market always makes me feel like I need a shower. Snob? Maybe? But hey there is a reason I choose to live on the EAST side of the Lakes. So with sweats, puffy vest, baseball hat and my camera we headed out around 10. A stop at Starbucks so Mommy could caffeinate herself was required. Then we picked up Wendy and her three girls. So with a van full of 6 females and Henry, we headed into the Big City. Max and Ruby played on the dvd. We parked under the viaduct across from the waterfront Aquarium, near the big antique store. We were feeling pretty smug about ourselves. Here it was, Spring Break and we were educating our children on Marine Biology. So what if we were not in Palm Springs or Hawaii. Our kids were learning about Salmon and touching sea creatures. We learned that training Sea Otters was called "Husbandry". (the scientific caring, breeding of...) I thought this was appropriate, if only I could use a little buoy on the end of a stick to train my husband to cooperate, life would be excellent. After the Aquarium we went down to pier 54 for another Seattle institution, Ivars. We gorged ourselves on chowder, fish and chips and fried clams. Fed the Seagulls and moved on to stop in the shops along the way back to the car. Wendy had given us all gum and this gave us the idea to find the gum wall in Post Alley. this is an alley where on one side of a building people have placed their chewed up gum. Pretty disgusting but quite a piece of Art in my opinion. I was concerned about our parking time because we had a little issue with the meter, I had gone back at 12:30 before lunch to feed it some more money because it ran out at 1:11, when I printed my ticket for an extra 40 minutes it was for 40 minutes from when I purchased it which only gave us to 1:13, so I wasn't sure if a ticket would be in my future or not. So I hustled ahead of Wendy and the kids. As I approached the minivan I saw a group of about 4 men and one woman hanging out in the empty spot on the driver's side of my van. They were looking in the windows. My first thought was no way can I possibly get my car broken into twice in one year. Then a tiny white civic pulled in and I thought well maybe they were saving the spot for their friend to park. At this point I got to the car and looked in the open passenger's window, three of the standing folks were hovered around the driver's side window. I immediately saw the driver taking vials out of his sweatpant pockets.
I asked them "Hey could you please wait to do your drug deal please until I get all my kids in the car and leave" Driver/dealer quickly shoved the goods back in his pocket. The clients looked over the roof of the tiny car and said "sure no problem, how are you? what did you do today?" Me "went to the aquarium" Them "great, that's great, what a wonderful place, you can learn so much". Like I give a flying you know what if a drug buyer thought of my outing was a good idea. At this point Wendy was approaching with the kids and I wanted her to know something was going on. I loudly said, "Wendy, get the kids in the car quickly, they are going to wait for us to leave to finish their deal" Wendy just gave me a funny look and started sticking kids in the van. The female in the group yelled at me "Hey, what's up with that, we are being polite and nice to you and you have to go shouting out our business" Me, glaring at the ho, "really, cause I don't see a cop any where near here, so you shouldn't be worrying about me, cause if there was I would have been a lot louder" At this point the driver of the vehicle starts to edge backwards out of the spot, we almost have everyone in the car, except my daughter who is just standing behind the car watching. One of the dudes says "we should go before she gets his license plate. Hey great idea, I start following the car out and look around one of them and start repeating the plate out loud while my daughter climbs in the van. I am holding my SLR Digital camera the entire time. At this point I hear the ho say "Let's beat her up" "bitch". One of the men, with a menacing look and a fresh black eye himself starts for me. Since all the kids were in the car at this point, I start taking photos of the car and the people. I snapped three photos and tossed the camera to Wendy as I shut the doors to the back. I figured if I was going to get my ass kicked there would be photographic evidence of the culprits. I hopped in the van, locked the door and began backing out as I tried to get my phone out to dial the police. Wendy and the girls are trying to get seat belts buckled as I backed out and went the wrong way on the one way street under the viaduct, cause Wendy pointed out we needed to get the hell out of there before they got my license plate. We explained to the 911 operator what happened. As I was giving them detailed descriptions of people and the vehicle, Henry was throwing out details that I had missed, like "mom she had a red flower in her hair". I thought dang, good job, Henry! Way to be alert.
We found a place to park and wait for the police to come follow up with us. As we are sitting there waiting I am watching all mirrors ready to throw that minivan in gear and jump any curbs I needed to if a white crx with yellow duct tape over one of the tail lights was heading our way. At this point, we hear little Grace in the backseat say, "uh oh, I have a ring on my finger" She proceeds to say she wore a plastic ring out of the pirate store without paying for it.
Now the conversation goes like this:
me "shoot I saw that she had that on when they were playing in the treasure chest and I meant to remind her to take it off"
Grace "I forgot"
Henry "Quick, Grace, Give it to me before the cops get here, I will hide it for you, remember it was an accident"
Grace "yeah it was accidentally"
Wendy "did you steal it? did you know you had it on when you left the store?"
Grace "yes, accidentally"
Wendy "you stole it Grace, you are in trouble"
Henry "the cops are coming, lets hide it"
the other girls "is Grace in trouble? cause the police are coming?"
Me "Oh shoot, the store is a couple blocks away, lets just go pay the 25 cents"
Wendy "not a good lesson"
Carly "I want to go on more field trips with Momma Dawn"
I decided to move the car under the viaduct where there was more pedestrian traffic. The older girls took Grace to the pirate store to return the stolen property while we waited for the police to show up. A parking police officer came by and I asked him if he knew anything. He said "yeah I heard that call about the mom and the drugbust" "did you head down there?" "no I am not getting involved in drug deals, I am giving parking tickets" Our finest at work.
After an hour I tell the kids we have done our civic duty and if the police need my photos they will contact me.
For the previous 15 minutes Wendy is reading the facebook posts on our adventure:
Dawn - Waiting for the police after Wendy and I broke up a drug deal under a viaduct. Hey kids what a field trip!
Lori - To think I almost changed my plans today so I could join you guys!
Shauna - What are you two...crazy? (probably)
Scott - Cougar basketball players? (that's funny)
Wendy - Dawn's crazy! I was just trying to protect the kids and get them in the car and get the doors locked!! (ha, I didn't get the bat out of the trunk, I was trying to protect the kids too, but really, after the year I have had I dare someone to mess with me)
Shauna -Plus, what kind of Seattle field trip includes time under the viaduct? :-)
Karen - SO glad I didn't get my act together this a.m. to try and catch up with you guys!!! Wendy - Well first the Aquarium, Ivars, The Olde Curiosity Shoppe, then had to add gum to the Gum Wall in Post Alley. Finishing off the day with a real life drug deal!
Scott - Dawn, I'll be late tonight. I am going to stake out a meth lab in Maple Valley. (Very funny, yep, that is how us McCutcheons roll)
Wendy - For some reason the dumbasses chose to do their "deal" next to the minivan owned by an eastside photographing ptsa mom!
Wendy - The best part was that while we were waiting for the cops to take our statement Grace brought it to our attention that she accidentally stole a plastic .25 cent ring from the store and Henry is schooling her on how to hide it from the police and to say it was an accident!
Lori - I'll be your safe house if you want to come over (in case your home is being cased).
Dawn - Okay, I will get started on the blog update for today's adventure.
Judi - The two of you can always find trouble! Be safe
Lol, I have no idea what she is talking about
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