July 15, 2007 We’re off! (Sort of)

Does staying in a hotel fifteen miles from home count as the first night of our trip? Here we are at the Fairfield Inn across the street from SeaTac airport. We are both exhausted. The last two weeks have been a whirlwind of preparation. We had a giant flip chart divided up into a fourteen day plan for packing up all of our personal belongings, moving most of them into storage and the rest into the lone closet that isn’t being rented to the wonderful couple moving into our home today. We got all of the work done and as you would expect, the house looks better than it ever did in the two years we lived there. Seattle weather has been awesome during the packing period, making the lake view even more gorgeous.

Jonny and his wonderful girlfriend, Megan came to visit last night to take the car to Jonny’s house for storing. They had pizza with us last night and drove us to our hotel today. We got here at about 2:00, and let’s face it,a Fairfield Inn is not very glamorous. The hotel shuttle agreed to take us anywhere we wanted for lunch as long as it was within a one mile range from the hotel. So, we began our vacation a mile from the airport at one of Seattle’s notorious old restaurants, 13 Coins. Surrounded by ten feet tall purple upholstered booth walls, we had our first Italian meal (chicken picata and veal parmesan) and wished we already in Italy where the meal would have to be better than this one was. Oh well, we are started!