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Check back on the adventure blog next week for a link to all of the individual photobooth photos of you and yours!!
Well, I am happy to report that the Bastille Fete was more fun than ever, a mystical, magical, whimsical time spanning over nine hours!!! We were happy to see a lot of familiar faces: friends, clients, past clients and future clients. We met our friend Sue’s little precious niece Maddie, had a chance to hang out with a pregnant friend past her due date (note: she’s in labor as we speak!) and generally were able to party with babies and grandmas and rockers to our heart’s delights. We celebrated some birthdays, from Megan’s 30th Birthday eve to a 38th birthday to another 30th birthday . . . (you know a party’s good when people adopt it as their birthday party). Emily and Matt of The Corson Building made some wonderful Lamb and Anchovy dishes, Renee Erickson from Boat Street Cafe and The Walrus and Carpenter was there serving up divine oysters. Marc Papineau from The Corson Building and now also Bar Ferd’nand was serving up rosé and more. Wylie Bush of The Corson and Joe Bar fame was creating crepes when he wasn’t busy checking on the regulation Petanque court. The Aerial Bandits were up above it all, high in the sky. A photobooth, French Carnival games made by us here at The Adventure School and handmade disguises also captured the fancy of fete goers. We were treated to energetic performances by Mad Rad’s DJ Darwin on the wheels of Steel and Chris Ballew (from Presidents of the United States of America) as Caspar Babypants, the incomparable accordion stylings of local favorite Jason Webley and the raucous band, Idle Times (ex-Catheters). Molly Moon’s Homemade Ice Cream Truck and Hallava Falafel were holding it down with Western Bridge’s Mungo Thomson Skyspace Bounce House just outside of the garden. All in all it was a wonderful way to celebrate a People’s Revolution and a beautiful community! Bonne fête!! See you next year! AND, please wish our Gao Gao well as this is the last party stateside she will create with The Adventure School for awhile as she’s almost off seeking a Masters in the UK.
Hullo Adventurers. This week is important for two reasons. 1) I am leaving for China in a week. In order to celebrate my time here in Seattle, come to Bastille Day. It’s very simple. KIR! PASTIS! MAGIC! AERIAL BANDITS MUSIC! CARNIVAL GAMES! BOUNCY CASTLE! FOOD! MOLLY MOONS! FALAFEL! PETANQUE! Franco-glorious goodness.
Matt Dillon, the award-winning chef behind the inspired food at Sitka & Spruce and The Corson Building is our adventurer today. He will be hosting, along with us, a very fun and totally gorgeous Bastille Day Fete this Wednesday. So, before you all have a chance to taste his oysters and get drunk with him in the name of revolution, we thought you might want to get to know Matt Dillon a little bit better. Check out his profile and go say hi to him at the party on Wednesday night at his beautiful restaurant in Georgetown, The Corson Building.
What skill do you want to learn? Orcharding and Beekeeping Food and drink you donʼt want to live without? Dungeness Crab, Cynar, Chartreuse, Nectarines What’s the scariest thing you can think of? Kiddie pools What is your favourite party supply? The Adventure School and Schoolyard Heroes Your favorite book of the moment? The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka Describe your dream party place. The cliffs at Table Mountain on Blewett Pass What is the evil version of you like? Works for whole foods, eats tomatoes in January, buys pre-made ice cream base, and plays only zydeco music in his restaurant. What gives you confidence? The Kentucky Monk (equal parts chartreuse and rye whiskey) Name four essential elements of a good party. Wood Fired Cooking, Loud Ass Music, Bangin’ Ass Shakin’, and, of course, Love. What do you appreciate most about a party host? Big Ass Trees and Riverfront Property Favorite adventure supply? That rad ass Spin Art Bike Describe the best party you ever attended. Ryan Bubnis and Celias wedding on the river in Oregon last year; that shit was loud. Or Bastille Day at The Corson Building. That was loud too. Hotel room or campsite? Campsite Do you have a style icon? 70 year-old Basque Sheepherders, Che Guevarra, Josey Wales, or Lennie from Of Mice and Men. Where is your next adventure destination? The Basque Country or Patagonia If you could teach a class about anything in the world ever, what would you teach? How to make Yogurt Your motto? Easy, Breezy, Japanesey What is your spirit animal? A bear
The Adventure School and The Corson Building are teaming up again to bring you the best Bastille Day Fete this side of Versailles. Be there next Wednesday 3 pm to 12 am at The Corson Building!
Hullo Adventurers. On the 14th of July, Georgetown will be unrecognisable. The Corson Building and The Adventure School announce Bastille Day Fête: an afternoon and evening of music, food and fun to celebrate friends, family and Franco-glorious traditions! Sounds include Caspar Babypants aka Chris Ballew of The Presidents of the United States of America, accordionist Jason Webley and Mad Rad’s DJ Darwin and more!. Prepare to be astounded by Andrew Evans, Illusionist Extraordinaire. Watch with wonderment as frilled aerialists twist and turn in the skies. Savor a smorgasbord of oysters, stews and pastis by Wylie Bush and Matt Dillon of The Corson Building. Spoil yourselves with Molly Moon’s scrumplicious ice cream or tasty tasty falafel. Chicken races! Pétanque! Carnival games! Bike-powered hijinx! Lose yourself in the sensory delights of Bastille Day and Run away with la Cirque Parisienne! This event costs $35 and is open to the public. Tickets are available at the door. Three drink tickets are included in the price of the ticket. The party will be held at The Corson Building in Seattle’s Georgetown neighborhood from 4 pm to 12 am. Kids under 12 are free. Just to get you really ramped up, take a gander at last year’s shenanigans!
bastille-day-at-the-corson-building from Mike Prevette on Vimeo. Be there Adventurers.
As I mentioned early this week, I am a fountain of knowledge about all things adventure and possibly all things BRUNCH WEDDING. So, folks, if you’ve ever wondered about . . . THE BENEFITS OF BRUNCH, . . . let me fill you in. Today’s wedding is a spectacular (and expensive) event and many of the brides we work with seem sad to see the fun end. They’ve usually been planning for the big day for a year (or more!) and it goes by quickly. A ‘day-after’ brunch is an awesome time to connect even more with loved ones; especially out-of-towners who have journeyed to the wedding. It is a wonderful idea to surround yourself with love during your first day as a married couple. 1. Cheaper: Brunch food is just cheaper, I think this is because we live in a dinner-archy. Dinner is considered better, more awesome and more important and is therefore more expensive. But who cares? Take advantage of the dinner-centric culture, Go Big and Go Brunch! (and maybe Go Home to do it, or at least in the backyard of your fanciest friends house, or better yet, the home of an older, wiser family friend who loves to garden)! 2. Unexpected: Your friends will love you if your brunch is a ‘day-after’ thing. Good friends love to re-hash everything and if they want to squeeze in as much time as possible with the far-flung old buddies from camp, from high school, college or whatever, a post-wedding brunch is an unbeatable choice! 3. Not so much drinking: No one will get embarrassingly drunk on mimosas or bloodies the way they might on the open bar vodka sodas. Just sayin’, could be good for people who are not as interested in an all night wedding turned frat party. 4. Diversifies décor options: Some folks might want to ditch nighttime rented elegance for brunch in favor of sentimental, folksy or bright and cheery handmade décor. A bunch of family quilts and dishes from home is totally awesome and expressive of the couples’ lifestyles and individuality; less inhibiting than the traditional evening wedding. 5. Better for including kids: Little children can be a more active part of the festivities as it is not past their bedtime and perhaps the brunch reception will be a less formal affair or the ‘day-after’ brunch may be a fun way to hang out with kids who were asleep or with the babysitter during the wedding the night before. 6. Booking entertainment could be cheaper too: Feel free to wheel and deal with your favorite bands! They probably aren’t too busy and a day-time setting could call for smaller groups. An accordion duo in the park or the backyard during brunch would rule! CONTINENTAL BREKKIE AT HOME
GOURMET RUSTIC PICNIC 1. Hire a wedding planner to really get your gourmet brunch the attention to detail it deserves. The Adventure School is available. 2. Take out from a favorite casual dining spot and a performer, for example; Paseo, every body will love this, have a flamenco guitarist strum along while you eat! Indian food in the park with saris spread on picnic tables or on the grass would be awesome! Hire an Indian Classical dancer to strut their stuff for a thrilled crowd as they drink bottomless chai! A performer can add an awesome surprise element for just a few hundred dollars. 3. Make a smorgasboard of desserts, it’s informal so everyone can share. Cupcakes from the new Cupcake Royale on Pike street on Capitol Hill brought to Volunteer Park for a casual post wedding brunch would be ideal! Get Top Pot donuts, bring vegan sorbet. Check out the new awesome Domestic Architecture designed Cupcake Royale. 4. Use whole foods, (not the store). Bring a knife and cutting board and cut hunks of cheese, bread, meat. Everybody can get down with great big hunks of food, you can let your hair down and place some petanque with a baguette in hand. 5. Bring jars or food tins (get some used food tins from local grocers or tea shops) and fill with local flowers from Pike Place Market. Extremely reasonably priced. Get a bunch of sweet pea blossoms for five dollars! If you feel like outsourcing hire Marigold and Mint to do a similar wild flower look for your wedding picnic! 6. Hire a bartender or barista! Seems extravagant, but will set an awesome tone to an informal brunch! No one should be without a drink! Ask your favorite local bartender to do it and get a $10 banquet permit from the liquor store, after all, it’s a private event in your own backyard. Fancy non-alcoholic drinks rule too! Caffe Vita has coffee carts ready and willing to come to your event. Cute! 7. Foraged and Found Edibles! Get them involved! You will have the wedding of the year! So Locavore it hurts! Back to the land young lovers and the loved ones who love them! Also, check out Christina Choi’s restaurant, Nettletown. 8. Make specialized brunch totes by ordering and monogramming Boat & Totes from LL Bean! Get them embroidered to say I Love You or The Jones or something else. (I think you can have up to 10 characters). FOOD CARTS So many great food carts right now in Seattle. Marination mobile, Maximus Minimus, skillet, Veraci pizza, Tako Truk and Rancho Bravo just to name a few. They add a huge dose of whimsy to any event. Personalize the experience by having them plate up the goods on containers in the theme. Have a circus experience with red and white stripes and checked items from Cash and Carry. Ask them to use mason jars for your down-home folksy shindig. Incorporate a band that compliments the mood of the food cart: slide guitarists with marination mobile. Add a cotton candy machine to the mix; have someone funny staff it. Go totally DIY and build a funny tent and serve your mom’s pies out of it. Go green with corn plastics or thrifted dishes, flatware and cups. BRUNCH IN A RESTAURANT A restaurant buy-out is intimate and shows you really care; an awesome option for foodies!
Full disclosure: I was a little shy the first time I met Wylie Bush, the owner of Joe Bar, the sophisticated, hip, European yet welcoming coffee shop, small bar, and creperie where I practiced being cool and bided my time until I turned 21. I’d hole up in the loft with a cappuccino, my notebook, the newest edition of The Stranger and be deliriously happy for hours. Without Joe Bar, I don’t know what I would’ve done. Well, probably hung out at Vita instead. But without Joe Bar, my teenage years wouldn’t have been the same. Vita doesn’t have a loft. Or a one-eared rabbit. Wylie is also part owner of The Corson Building, my new Seattle fixation, and a dead ringer for Abe Lincoln. He’s also BFF with Obama’s dog. Don’t believe me? See for yourself…
What skill do you want to learn? How to fly in one of those squirrel suits. YouTube that s**t and you’ll want to do it too. Food and drink you donʼt want to live without? Tacos and Negro Modelo with a lime. What’s the scariest thing you can think of? I really don’t want to take you there. I would rather have a good time. What is your favorite party supply? Bouncy house Your favorite book of the moment? Horses and Hitches Describe your dream party place. Do you remember the 700 Club? What is the evil version of you like? Stick around when there is enough whiskey and find out. What gives you confidence? Kryptonite Name four essential elements of a good party. Music, smiles, games, wigs What do you appreciate most about a party host? That a plan has been made and the question “what can I bring?” has been answered. Favorite adventure supply? A headlamp Describe the best party you ever attended. We called it “A Fifth on the Fourth”. There were friends, music, fireworks, wigs, dancing, wrestling, bb guns, drinking, and I learned to fiddle. Hotel room or campsite? Ooooh, tough question. Two great places to have fun but I’m going to go with campsite. Do you have a style icon? Lawrence Welk Where is your next adventure destination? Parshall, CO. If you could teach a class about anything in the world ever, what would you teach? The fiddle Your motto? Shazzam What is your spirit animal? What is my spirit animal or what do I want it to be? Others would most likely say I’m a chipmunk with A.D.D. trying to find a nut, but I would like my spirit animal to be an orangutan. Who has anything bad to say about an orangutan? You’re super strong, orange and hairy, and you’d get to hang out with Clint Eastwood.
Between the chicken races, can can girls, carnival games, divine cuisine, and creative mustachios, there was something for everyone at The Corson Building Bastille Day Fête last week. Party-goers of all ages feasted, danced, and frolicked late into the night at the most charmed secret garden hideaway in the city. If you haven’t visited The Corson Building yet, you really must make the trip. Despite the fact that Bastille Day fell on a Tuesday this year, no one seemed to care or even recall that they’d have to get up and drag their bleary selves to work the next morning. More Pastis? Bien sur! That’s the French spirit! It became quite clear that one wanted the night to end. Many of us shed a single tear. The way you see those French mimes do. It was like the Yoplait commercial in past tense: C’était si bon– it was so good. Photos courtesy of the endlessly sophisticated Godolewa Gao Gao, girl with the extraordinarily refined British accent and wielder of the black liquid liner aka mustache medium. As you can see, in France even les bébés have chic facial hair.
Can’t get enough Bastille Day? There is more! Follow this link to feast your eyes on the photographic stylings of Curt Doughty.
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