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All in all, opening night of SIFF this year wasn't half-bad. The movie was good, the weather cooperated, and unlike last year, there was actually free food and drinks. Of course, the program didn't start until 20 minutes late, which means after all the introductions and thank yous, the film was on at 8 p.m. instead of 7. You know, SIFF stuff.

At the Cheese Festival this weekend, on our third table of samples, we proceeded as we generally do throughout the cheese concourse, standing on the outside, reaching in with our toothpicks for a cube. You know, Cheese Fest stuff. But this was the day we'd encounter one version of the typical Seattleite, and lo, the beast takes many forms. This version was the fifty-something Magnolia Dad with Token Younger Wife. He was quick to inform me that there was in fact a line, and that he had stood in it for forty minutes. That I thought I was better than everyone else, and that my mother hadn't taught me any manners (oh no, he di'int). For the record, my mama did teach me manners, and she also taught me to be smart enough not to WAIT IN AN OPTIONAL LINE FOR FORTY MINUTES.

          

Today's the final day of the Seattle Cheese Festival. Go eat yourself sick until 5 p.m.

Then we arrived.

Was this year's Seattle Cheese Festival a little smaller than usual? Or has our appetite for free cheese cubes grown exponentially over the last four years? Whatever the case, the 2008 Cheese Fest was in full effect. We went Sunday, assuming that the temps on Saturday made for a whole lot of gooey, melty cheese, not that there's anything wrong with that. Sure, there were plenty of people at the Market, but we know how to deal with crowds (after all, we are from a City): You don't stand in a proper line, like a good, patient, uptight Seattleite. No, you dart through the crowd, you duck in and out of line to get your cheese samples, you are stealthy like ninja. That was our experience at least. For the fourth year in a row, we happily ate ourselves sick on cheese--as God intended. We asked the rest of Seattlest about their time at this year's Cheese Festival.