Our First Weekend Living in Washington

We arrived safe and sound on Friday night despite a delayed flight outbound from Chi. I was in a panic before we went thru security due to snafus with our stupid Cingular phone service having a network outage at this most "opprotune" of times. Mom and Tara were circling with both Mom's car and the rental car while we got checked in. We agreed to rendevous via cell phone, but of course, due to the outage I couldn't make or receive calls. I started freaking out that I wouldn't get to say goodbye to Mom and Tara, but fortunately they opted to return the car for us, and then found us back at the terminal. Whew! I had a good cry (no surprise there) and we said our final farewells. :(

As I mentioned earlier, we did make it into Seattle safely and found our way to our temporary housing on Mercer Island. And the cats were so incredibly well behaved, but the poor things were so worn out. They had to spend over 10 hours in their carriers! But they didn't even have any accidents! Yay kitties!

Saturday morning my friend Melanie (who was here interviewing with MS for the same position I have) picked us up for brunch and some touring of the area. We showed her where our townhome will be (Avignon) and ran a couple of errands. It was really great seeing a familar face our first official day here in Seattle. I hope to see more of her soon!!!

On Sunday, I took Brian to his office, and then I got lost. Then I got lost again. I suspect that this is going to be a recurring theme over the next several months. :(

However, I DID manage to get myself down to Pike Place Market where I got us stocked up on some produce and these GORGEOUS boquets of flowers!! Mmm...the peonies smell like home! Can you guess how much the flowers cost?





The market is only about 8 miles away from us. I still can't get over how close we are to everything!