More fun exploring Seattle today! The highlight? As you can see from the wild eyes - Starbucks Reserve Roastery! Yeeeeesssssss! We started our day low day - breakfast as the airbnb, a run (I'm up to 1.5 miles on these INTENSE hills) and a virtual meeting from Columbus. Then Grace and I were turned loose! We hopped the bus for Capitol Hill to first visit the roastery. I expected a warehouse with machines and the small of burned coffee abounding. That was...

Claire is 23! Wow, how did that happen so fast?? After a Happy Birthday aria call to Claire (she is at her apt., we're at our airbnb), we began Day Three in Seattle! We are so excited to see her and celebrate after work. This is probably a good time to mention how incredibly proud I am of her - making the move to Seattle by herself and making the huge mark she is in her work! She just beams when she talks about her work and the people! Her reviews are fanta...

The first full 24 hours in Seattle! The sun comes up early in Seattle and hit me in the eyes around 5:15 AM from my bed on Claire's couch! That was OK because I was eager to run across the street to get my day started with a hot cup of Herkimer! After second thoughts, I dozed off and trekked across at 6:30.... only to find out that they would not be open and have coffee ready for me until 7. Back to the couch, but I was the first in door at 7! :) Our day ...

We're here! We left homea at 5 AM and landed in SEA around 1 PM. Grace had a glorious nap; I read a moving book, Travelling Mercies. She snored; I laughed and cried and I'm sure that Grace was happy to sleep through that! . In Seattle, we grabbed the Lite Rail and a bus to end up here at Claire's place! Yay! Check out the few photos in the Travel album. I felt so at home walking in to Herkimer this afternoon to work on my P3 online course. I even recog...