Täglich Wiederkehrendes Abenteuer

So, I’m here.  I got in on Monday night.  Will picked me up and we had some food, watched TV, and went to bed.  Will went to work the next day.  I met him at his office and we went to Jimmy John’s for lunch.  After lunch, I wandered around downtown.  I went to Whole Foods, which is a big natural/organic grocery store.  It’s fancy.  I also found a store that sells little wooden German toys.  Other than that, it was mostly what you’d expect.  Barnes and Noble, movie theater, McDonald’s, clothing stores.

After Will was done with work, we went to Pike Place Market, which is basically a big market of produce and sea food.  There’s a very popular booth where they play catch with the fish for fun.  They seem to enjoy taking risks with it too.  If the guy hadn’t caught it, it would have hit a shopper in the face.  The market has other stores too.  There was one that sells comics, collectibles, and “original” movie scripts.  And by that I mean copies of original movie scripts.  Will thought that was really interesting.

And there was another health food store and a magic shop.  I got pretty excited about the magic shop, but it was closed.  We’ll have to go back in June, so we can take some pictures… and go to the magic shop.

It was raining of course.  We were hungry, so we went to Pike Place Bar and Grill.  It has a nice view of the market.  We had crab cakes as an appetizer.  Will had fettucine alfredo with smoked salmon (yum) and I had fish and chips with coleslaw.  It was tasty.  Seafood is a thing here.

Wednesday, we didn’t do much.  I mostly sat around at the apartment, met Will for lunch.  We went to a Döner Kebap place, which is a Turkish/German thing I was excited about.  Will brought me up to see the office and meet the people, then I just went back to the apartment.

When Will got home, we made some food, then went to see our new permanent apartment.  It has a woodburning fireplace, which is odd.  I’ll probably put candles in it.  It’s a nice place.  The neighborhood I guess is really artsy.  There are a ton of bars and restaurants around.  I guess there’s this Cuban place that’s really popular; there’s a line of people there all the time.  Julie told me about it, and then someone at work told Will about it, so we’ll have to check it out.

Thursday I went to Fort Lewis to visit a friend from high school (Julie).  It was raining of course, and I don’t really like to drive.  So I drove a strange car in a strange place in the rain.  Then I had to get a visitor pass to get into the base.  I was warned not to bring anything illegal because they might search the car.  But I didn’t get searched; I guess I don’t look very threatening.

We mostly talked, and went to Best Burger for lunch, and Patrick showed me his toys.  He’s very friendly, that kid.  It was a good day.  Julie will be moving back to Minnesota soon when Jon gets deployed, so maybe we’ll meet up in Minnesota sometime between now and June.  I guess when Jon gets back in December, they’ll be back in Washington.  It’ll be nice to have someone I know nearby.  The base is about an hour outside of Seattle.  On my way back into Seattle, it was rush hour, which was basically the same as rush hour in Minneapolis.  Jon said it was going to be crazy, but I think he just likes to mess with people.

I got back and we ordered Chinese delivery and we watched TV until I fell asleep.  I’ve been really sleepy in the evenings, probably due to the two hour time change.  Now it’s Friday and I’m blogging; I really should have taken some pictures.  I’m not sure we have much for plans for the evening.  I go back tomorrow and back to school on Monday.  And Will moves into the permanent apartment tomorrow, too.  That’ll be a change for him, considering how nice the temporary place is and how little we have when it comes to furnishings for the new place.  It’s only for a few months right?

Edit: Will here. I decided to add the pictures Joni wanted.
Space Needle

Really Tall Scary Bridge

Fremont, our new neighborhood

Boats!

More Boats!

The Interstate right behind the corporate apartments

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Despite how terrible the setup for this was, it didn’t turn out half bad. I’ve tried to make nice panoramas that have turned out worse than this! …wait.