Well, we’re in Seattle! We live a block away from the Piers, so, when you look out our living room window towards the water, you can see the ferries coming in from Bainbridge Island and from Bremerton, and, we live a block away from the docking point for the NCL cruise ships! Yesterday, we watched one take off, and, this morning, what looks like an even larger ship is docked.

We went roaming around Seattle yesterday to thrift stores, and found the Northgate mall, so I think we drove through a bit of Ballard, Fremont, Phinney, Wallingford, Greenwood, and Northgate. As we got a bit farther away from downtown (I think around the Northgate mall area), the more far apart things looked, which we liked. Not knowing exactly what area we were driving through, though, we’re going to take some of the house addresses we’ve seen that are for rent and go find some of them today.

Parking garages are going to take some getting used to — as is living in an apartment for awhile, but the apartment is VERY roomy and nice.

Things I need to get to blend in to Seattle, though — a purse that I sling across me instead of on my shoulder. That might be it, though I did notice that weekend wear wasn’t necessarily just jeans + tshirt…usually the tshirt was a bit nicer than just a tshirt. And the fashion…Target’s womenswear was NOT like the womenswear at the Target at home! Either that, or fashions changed drastically in the past month (which may ENTIRELY be the case!).

Time to go navigate Seattle…this time, thought, it’s ME that’s doing the driving. We’ll see just how much screaming that creates from both Rich and I!