The Plaid Pladd Blog » crepe http://www.patricialadd.com The Madcap Adventures of Patricia Ladd! Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:11:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Times I Have Almost Died: MY BIRTHDAY! http://www.patricialadd.com/2009/05/times-i-have-almost-died-my-birthday/ http://www.patricialadd.com/2009/05/times-i-have-almost-died-my-birthday/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 01:46:20 +0000 pladd http://www.patricialadd.com/?p=296 A birthday is a horrible time for a near death experience but, as my mother feared, the day I turned 22 I faced a twofold threat in Seattle–suspiciously close to Canada. The first was the insidious threat of crepe or nutella overdose at lunch:
The tastiest way to die

The tastiest way to die


The second was far more overt:

Behold the seagull mafia!

Behold the seagull mafia!

Luckily, I am from Florida and narrowly avoided death by making myself look as unappetizing as possible and losing myself in a far more pliant tour group. Another narrow animal-escape.

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