I need to be there for the early part of the week on business and my lovely wife will join me on Monday. Together we will take some time away from our children and simply enjoy each other's company.
Where are the kids? We left them locked in the downstairs bathroom.
Well, maybe not, but my mother-in-law has generously agreed to watch over them in Las Vegas and as wild as they can get -- I wouldn't blame her if she decided to lock them up from time to time.
Of course, it has been over a year and a half since either Cari or I have experienced a real fall. We were leaving behind the mid-90s of Las Vegas for this...
Okay, maybe it's hard to see, but the daytime temperature at the airport was 52 degrees!
Thank goodness Seattle has such a wonderful downtown. Seattle was long known as a place of meandering streets filled with quirky little stores and lots of outdoor cafes. I was so looking forward to sitting outside at some street cafe sipping a cup of that legendary Seattle coffee.
Seattle is the birthplace of Starbucks, after all, which is a testament to how the citizens of this city cherish their unique little coffee shops.
I took a quick walk around our hotel and found an incredible number of charmingly special gems only found in Seattle.
There was a wonderful aroma from this little shop...
A nice fellow I chatted with told me to search out this funky original place right across the street...
But you have to look around a bit to find this hidden hole in the wall...
But I cannot think of anything with more character than this place around the corner from the last...
Then there was this formal place that still managed to retain some charm...
Downtown Seattle is filled with office buildings, but if you search through them -- you can see from this building directory that the search for the needle in the haystack is worthwhile...
Some of these unique little stores choose to use a color scheme of their own...
But ultimately, you can take comfort that literally in this three block area in downtown Seattle, there are lots of choices each special in their own way...
Welcome to that most unique and charming of cities, Seattle, Washington.
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