Am typing this up on the 29th from our hotel room in Seattle…..that’s right folks….we’re on the move but you’ll never guess where we’re headed! In fact you won’t be reading this until after we’re already there but….that will be another post all on it’s own. Likely won’t be able to post till after the new year but I promise…as soon as we can access internet….I’ll get these up so you can read all about our “new adventure”.
Spent today in Seattle playing the role of tourist and had a fun day. Took the rapid transit train from the airport all the way into the downtown centre where we visited the famous Pike Place Market and had the BEST fish and chips ever for breakfast!! Crazy but true…fish and chips for breakfast. We wandered the streets and agreed that there are definitely more people in Seattle than there are in Troncones and that we like the fact that we enjoy both types of lifestyle. We saw the stadium and the space needle and were really impressed with the public transit system and the fact that an all-day pass on the train only cost $5!
Once we were finished wandering…we made our way into a couple of the big stores downtown and both of us hit the jackpot. Our first jackpot came in Ross’s where both Lynda and I replaced our much used luggage with some nice new stuff for the next leg of our journey. We both stayed away from the basic black after having appreciated so much and so recently the ability to be able to recognize our very ugly and colourful cases on each and every flight.
From Ross we stumbled across Macey’s where I hit the motherlode and came away with some amazing bargains. It seems that everything I looked at was not only on sale but on the “take an additional 50% off” rack too!
Caught the train back to our hotel to drop off our purchases and in our true “lucky” fashion were right on time to catch the free shuttle to a massive mall…..Southcentre, where we did a little more shopping, got our feet happy with pedicures, got my eyebrows unhappy with a really bad dye job! (they’re even more invisible than they were before she started!!!), and then got happy again with an evening of Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie in the movie Tourist.
Back to the hotel with time to repack into our new bags and book the shuttle for tomorrow morning when we head out again…..stay tuned…..or more likely….read on……
L & L
December 31, 2010
Happy New Years Eve everyone!! We’re in transit again but this time we just took Euros out of the ATM. Yes….we’ve left the time zone and crossed a date line and are typing this from Amsterdam.
We decided that it would be fun to check out another Spanish speaking country so are en route to Spain….Barcelona to be exact. New Years in Barcelona sounds like it will be lots of fun and it provided an additional opportunity to surprise my family by joining them on their flight as they’re en route to a cruise that leaves from Barcelona. We caught up with them in Seattle and it was a surprise for everyone when we found them in the line up to check in to our Delta flight bright and early this morning. 10 hours later….here we are in Amsterdam waiting for our next plane. Will arrive in Barcelona around noon local time so will be there in plenty of time for all the celebrations and festivity.
Have arrived in Barcelona and although it’s been a looonnnngggg day everyone is doing well and has survived the trip none the worse for wear.
Were met at the airport by Online Vacations staff who moved us and all our luggage to the hotel. It was really nice to be met by the staff and to have everything taken care of for us but…..we both struggled with the ’following a leader holding up a sign’ plan . It kind of inspired us to moo or baaaaa but we both behaved and before you knew it we were on the bus and bound for the hotel. We’re staying at the H10 Hotel which is very nice and both Lynda and I are looking forward to hitting the hay tonight. We had thought about staying up for midnight….but as 9 pm has just passed and we’re both too tired to keep our eyes open…..we’ve decided to just go to bed and say we did instead.
Since we’re in the Mediterranean…decided to go for something of that persuasion for dinner and settled on donairs which hit the spot and left us much fuller than we thought they would.
Had a long walk around the area of our hotel tonight and enjoyed it very much. The one funny story that I can share is that when asking for some directions…Lynda left the Spanish man she was speaking with thinking that she was trying to get him to join Mom, Karen, Lynda and I in her hotel room for a big party with fireworks and everything tonight. That poor man….it was truly a case of: the price of four donairs 26 Euros; the price of a 12 day Mediterranean cruise 1599 Euros, the look on the man’s face when he thought Lynda was trying to pick him up…..priceless!!! Lots of laughs on our way home tonight!!
Drinks in the bar at our hotel tonight to ring in the New Year a little early was fun and Lynda met a couple of women who would also be on the boat with us. The really funny part about that meeting was that before she knew their names she introduced them to me with names she had made up for them. She said they were Anne and Betty….the truth is that their names are Lynn and Betsy….that is WAY too close….Lynda must have some kind of psychic thing going on!!
Feliz anos nuevos amigos. Till next time,
L & L
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