Kathy and I went to downtown Seattle today. We walked through the Pike's Place Market, stopped at the very first Starbuck's Coffee shop, found the hotel that my niece and her friend will be staying at this weekend, and went to Sea-Tec airport so I know where to pick the girls up on Saturday.
We encountered some challenges with parking in downtown Seattle (go figure), but as we were getting ready to prepay for the parking, a vehicle with 2 lovely young ladies stopped and told us they had 1 1/2 hrs left on their parking pass and they gave it to us!! It is great to know that pure kindness is still alive in this sometimes cruel world! I have noticed here that everyone is either listening to an ipod with their headphones on, or on their cell phone texting or talking and they don't make any eye contact or speak to you as you pass...I guess I'm not in Iowa anymore!
Now that I have made that comment, I finally went walking today and explored the neighborhood a little. As I was walking checking out all the neat houses and their manicured landscaping, there was a woman out working in her yard and actually talked to me!! How lame is it that I was very excited about this?! Nice to know that people still care...
Safe travels!
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