Friday 8/7/09
We’re moving slowly today. I was awake at 7:30 am but those people I travel with weren’t. I ended up reading for a while (The Husband’s copy of The Fall of the House of Bush.) My book is Suzanna Clarke’s A House in Fez about restoring a house in Morocco but I wasn’t in the mood to read about houses after visiting our friends sweet home last night, stepping into the life we might have been living if we had stayed in Seattle and continued the life we started when we bought our little house near Seattle U.
After we got back to the hotel, My Kid was hungry (as she seems to be every 2 hours these days) so we took a short walk to Palace Kitchen, the Tom Douglas restaurant with the late-night kitchen we used to frequent when The Husband was started making decent money while we were still doing theatre at Annex. So there were memories.
Now it’s after ten and we have ordered some room service because My Kid is hungry and The Husband and I are both on our laptops and not moving quickly at all.
In preparation for the end of this leg of the vacation…The Husband is giving My Kid all her chargers (Nintendo DS et all) to put into her luggage because we’re going on to Montana for two weeks with the other grandparents and The Husband is going back to work. Sigh.
Yeah! A phone call from an old friend. I’m going to have coffee today with someone I know from both Montana and Seattle!
The day is shaping up with plans for swimming and lunch and Seattle Center and more time with The Mother-In-Law. But for now we are still in the hotel room content with cartoons on the TV and real live window washers on the office building across the street.