Seattle Free Week

This past week has been lovely and lazy. Leigh and I worked two days last weekend, but had Monday through Friday to ourselves to do as we pleased. We cleaned the Seattle House, ran some errands, caught up on some TV shows (well, I caught up on them because Leigh has had access to TV since late January), slept in (awesome!) and enjoyed the city a bit.

Yesterday was particularly nice because we planned to spend the day in Seattle. Our goals were to hit the U-district (our old stomping grounds) and Capitol Hill, both by foot. We took the bus to the U-district and wandered around The Ave (University Way), which has both changed and stayed the same since we lived two blocks over about 6 years ago. We got Bubble Tea at our favorite place, which has changed only in decor. The prices are about the same, which is nice, and they have our favorite flavors and a few new ones too. We then walked through the UW campus and got a little turned around, but that was kind of fun because we got to wander through the UW Medical College building. Leigh enjoyed that very much because we got a glimpse of some top-notch facilities.

Then we started walking in the general direction of Capitol Hill, across a short bridge and through a park along the water. Without a map we just kind of headed in the correct direction and wound up wandering through some adorable neighborhoods. It was practically a garden tour. Seattle has an abundance of cute little houses (none exactly the same) with fun gardens. I remember the week I worked as a canvasser here (begging for money for a non-existent cause) we had a term for these houses- "Giver Houses" - because the owners took the time to make their homes naturally beautiful, so they'd probably give us $10 for our "cause."

Anyway, we made it to Capital Hill after several hours of slowly walking and enjoying ourselves and had some Pho with chicken for dinner- YUM! and only $5.75 for a bowl the size of my head! After that we walked downtown, which only took a few minutes because it's a straight shot downhill, and caught our bus home. We were out of the house traveling on foot from 2:00pm until after 10:30pm. Needless to say I slept like a log last night. It was great.

Today we're taking it easy, enjoying the library here in West Seattle and searching for an international grocery store so we can get some harder to find ingredients to get us through the summer. We're really enjoying having a kitchen again and settling into our temporary home. Hopefully we will get a gig to work a few hours tomorrow, but if not I think we'll try to get tickets for the Seattle Storm game. Either way I'll be happy. On Saturday we start working early mornings and the summer will only get busier after that, so we're relishing in the calm right now.