Our Seattle Stay

So these first couple of days have been fairly interesting. Seattle is such an intriguing city. People are so friendly! There are people that stay up all night in the dog park across our street. During the day we get to know them so much better. Their lives are so incredible that they want everyone to know so they make sure that everyone hears their conversations. Our sliding glass door is like a window to the theater. These people exaggerate all their movements and speak loudly. The men and women profess their feelings for each other while half a block apart--running towards each other, but then teasing and falling back again.

Also, the city seems to have some sort of unenforced curfew. It is more like a parent telling us that it is time to go to sleep and wake up. Every night the fire engines and/or ambulances run down our street right outside our door blaring their sirens. But not only do they announce bedtime, the City of Seattle does not want us to be late for work, so they send the fire engines and/or ambulances with their sirens blaring again early in the morning! It is so great!

Although Seattle is such a large city, it has a really small-town feel. After I picked Kim up from the airport we were trying to find a grocery market. But Seattle and its surrounding cities do not support such big-box large-scale corner-market-destroying grocery stores. Oh no...they only support small mom and pop grocery stores. After searching for one of those evil large corporation grocery chain stores, we realized that perhaps we should search our souls and determine what really is better. And so instead I went to the local market on my way home from work.

Unfortunately I pulled a major Seattle faux pax. When I purchased those groceries from the local market I did not have my own bag to haul them home. They did give me one plastic bag, though, for the peanut butter, honey, bread, rice, soup, cheese, and peaches. I have learned my lesson, and it is such a blessing that Kim's mom was thinking of us and provided us with a going-away present of 5 reusable cloth grocery bags!

Wednesday was our first full night together in the city. So we walked down to Pike's Marketplace and found out that everything shuts down at about 7:00. So back to 3rd Ave where we found out that everything shuts down at 8:00. Again, Seattle wants to make sure that we get a good night's rest and that is why they all shut down so early. It is so great! We spent our first dinner eating out at Subway. There seem to be more Subways than Starbucks (where we also stopped) here, which does seem a little odd.

Seattle really is such a great place. We will make sure to keep you up to speed with our adventures.