Seattle Whirlwind

We arrived in Seattle on Monday night after two long airport delays- one in Rome and the other on our connecting flight in Cincinnati. Nevertheless, it was nice to get back to cool, wet Seattle. We stayed a Motel 6 in Issaquah in order to be close to the appointments we had lined up for all day Tuesday (doctors, dentists, pharmacy, hair stylist, barber). We also had some shopping to do (new lens for the camera, drugstore supplies, etc.) We didn't sleep all that well Monday night- perhaps jet lag or maybe the sound of cars parking outside our motel window. We were very keyed up about all that we had to do, so it was possibly the excitement of our fast touchdown in Seattle that caused the wakefulness. Nevertheless, we made it through our day of errands and drove our rental Toyota Prius up to Bellingham Tuesday night for dinner with Mike, Dana and Matt. Unfortunately we did not get to see Jonny this trip. Dinner was fun- we celebrated Michael's birthday and listened to some friendly jibes from Matt who responded to his Dad's comment that we loved the nomadic lifestyle and might never come home with a request that we not tease him like that.

Mike and Dana put us up in their home where we got a private bathroom, free internet access, a bottomless cup of coffee at breakfast and English speaking hosts! It was great to sleep well, although once again the excitement of getting ready for the next leg of our journey caused us both to wake up at 3:00 AM, so wide awake that we got out of bed and packed our bags. Crazy!

We spent most of today traveling to the airport from Bellingham. We flew to LA this afternoon and currently sit in LAX waiting for our flight to Sydney. We found a condo to rent in San Miguel de Allende, so we know where we will be in January.

We arrive in Sydney in another day or two after our fourteen hour flight. We will log in then and let you know how these two dead tired travelers are doing. To those of you that we couldn't see this trip- our apologies. One and a half days in Seattle was just not enough to see everyone. We will be back in December though.

Love to you all, Deanne and Mike