- Plastic grocery bags are banned here. That's fine with us and everything, but if you don't bring your own reusable grocery bags, they force you to pay $0.05 per paper bag you use.
- Seattle has QFC grocery stores which are owned by the same company as Kroger so it's pretty much JUST like Kroger. This is my dream come true as I've been missing Kroger so much since we left Louisville.
- Dave Matthews lives in the next neighborhood over from here and shops at the same QFC as us.
- I have nothing else to say about QFC at this time but if you can't tell by my first 3 bullet points, I'm really excited about this grocery.
- Dogs can go anywhere. Stores, coffee shops, restaurants, and even work. Chuckie said there were dogs everywhere at Amazon. I personally love this because I love dogs but have to admit it's a little strange to sit in a restaurant and see a huge dog at the table next to us.
- It really does rain a lot, but it's not rain like you're imagining. It's more like a mist.
Our neighborhood, Fremont, has a troll. It's pretty weird but also pretty cool.
While exploring on Saturday, we at one point got caught in the middle of a Valentine's "Undie Run." Welcome to Seattle, Chuck and Rachel! Here's 300 people in their underwear!
Sunday we ventured into downtown Seattle to find Amazon so Chuck would know where to go on Monday when he started work. We ate lunch at a cool Tavern and then explored the Seattle Center. This is a huge area of downtown that has tons of museums, theaters, an amphitheatre, a fountain or two, a skate park, restaurants and a ton of other stuff. The biggest attraction there is probably the famous Space Needle.
As for our apartment, we live in a neighborhood in Fremont, north of Downtown Seattle. Our apartment is nice, cozy and clean. I like that it's in a neighborhood setting and not on a busy street, but that we are still close enough to walk to restaurants and shops. I don't like that the apartment is in the basement of a house, that our TV is from the year 2002, and that the only way to get cell phone service in the apartment is to sit on the kitchen counter. And that doesn't even work most of the time.
Chuckie started work yesterday and thinks he is really going to enjoy it. Next week they are sending him to Phoenix to work on the floor in an Amazon distribution center so he can learn the ins and outs of the processes there. He's pretty excited about that but not excited to leave me alone in Seattle. I'm not too excited for that either but, it's not really his choice so, oh well!
I'm looking for jobs here and have a couple interviews this week. I already snagged a contract marketing job for a small theater here and will be doing some marketing for them a few hours a week for the next several weeks.
So, that's about it for now. Today I am applying for some more jobs, trying to figure out why our coffee maker won't work when it worked perfectly fine on Sunday, and waiting for Chuckie's car to be dropped off at our house! We shipped it from Louisville and it's scheduled to arrive sometime in the next hour or so. We are verrrrrry excited to have a car again. I can already tell we are going to need it here much more than in Boston. Boston is easy without a car, but I don't think Seattle would be quite as easy. Tonight we might get crazy and drive to the QFC!
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