First installment of picspam...Seattle 2007

So last week we had Spring Break at the Uni. The campus is blissfully empty and they give us one day off for Spring Holiday. The last Friday of March. It is nice. So I decided to go see khylea. She my fwiend.

We had oodles of fun...traipsing hither and yon...all over da place. It was a good intro to the Pacific Northwest.

Here is where we went:

Day One: Friday: Leavenworth, WA: The Bavarian Village
Day Two: Saturday: Seattle: The Woodland Zoo, Pike's Market and The Waterfront
Day Three: Denny's *snork* and visiting

So here is the first installment of the picspam. These are the piccies of the Bavarian Village. This is 2 hours East in Washington in the Cascades. Really beautiful. I felt like I was in the Alps.

( The Bavarian Village...scenery and such... )

The shopping there was fab and we had awesome bratwurst. Mm mm. Yummeh. Here is the web site for the town. It is pretty neato:

http://www.leavenworth.org/

Next up: The zooo and all the fun animules.


By luvforever at _glitter_

Adventures in the bookstore....it is all about sex...really it is...

*whistles* Someone else had picked up the book and almost bought it. It was on the table near the front counter...right by the cards, unshelved and out of placed...so yes, I was instantly drawn in by the title...




SEX WITH KINGS



When kings marry foreign strangers for dynastic or financial reasons and queens are trained in piety over sensuality, royal mistresses seem an inevitability. Kings had flings and extramarital relationships through much of European history, and in her first book, Herman offers, with relish and dry wit, a delightful overview of their sexual escapades. Her subjects are international, though France dominates and England gets a strong showing. It's a lively account, organized by topic e.g., "The Fruits of Sin—Royal Bastards." Herman weaves into a larger pattern the tales of recurrent figures, such as Louis XIV's mistress Athénaïs de Montespan and Madame de Pompadour, who is perhaps more famous than her royal lover, Louis XV. Fashions, love potions and cheerful conversation kept kings enthralled while mistresses made themselves wealthy, husbands acquiesced or simmered, courtiers wooed the mistresses and the public admired or ridiculed. A striking number of these relationships continued despite arguments and even the lack of sex. George II even felt it necessary to keep a mistress for his reputation despite actually loving his wife. Herman ends on a modern note, recounting how Camilla Parker-Bowles famously introduced herself to Prince Charles by noting that her great-grandmother had been his great-great-grandfather's mistress. Herman ends on a serious note, but her wit and perceptiveness will carry readers through this royally pleasurable romp.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

This looks GREAT!

Fingolfin thinks it is a worthy topic...

( Sex with Kings a Short RP )

That was brought to you by Elves Unstructured. Glorfindel was played by khylea and Fin was yours truly.

Good night.