Finally i have a chance to write something here. I arrived on Monday night after two long flights, and Andy picked me up at the airport. We will be staying in a B&B after Sunday, but this week we have spent in a couple of different hotels. The apartment Andy found should be ready to move into by the end of the month.
We have spent the past few days just getting to know Seattle a little bit. Our current hotel is in the downtown area, just south of Pike Place Market and the Space Needle, and close to the "retail core" of the city. The most interesting shop i have found is the Neuhaus chocolate boutique. I haven't actually gone inside, because i'm afraid of the prices. It's nice to know where it is, though, for when i'm the wife of a successful sound designer :)
I have pictures to prove that the sun does shine in Seattle:

We went over to Fremont, the neighborhood where the apartment is, yesterday, and we took a walk along the trail that runs near the waterfront. There is a really cool park nearby called
Gasworks Park:
This 20 acre point on Lake Union was cleared in 1906 to construct a plant to manufacture gas from coal - later converted to crude oil. Import of natural gas in the 1950's made the plant obsolete. The city acquired the site for a park in 1962. The park was opened to the public in 1975. The boiler house has been converted to a Picnic Shelter with tables, fire grills and an open area. The former exhauster-compressor building, now a children's play barn, features a maze of brightly painted machinery.
I was glad to see the park and the funky Fremont neighborhood, because until that point, Seattle was looking rather unattractive to me. The wharf area near Pike Place Market is really industrial, as are some of the major streets around downtown. I think everything will be okay, though ;)
Take a look at my other photos on Flickr.
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