Seattle

Dec. 13th, 2008

Upon landing in Seattle, we headed downtown to see the Space Needle and the famous fish market. The town was all lit up for the holidays, and the sun was just setting, but we quickly realized that neither of us had a camera, so there are no pictures to show from our Space Needle adventure, and the fish market was already closed so we don't have any fish tossing pictures either, but here's one from the Internet.
But some restaurants were open and so we had dinner at place called the Sound View cafe. We sat by the window, 3 or 4 stories above the street below (due to the hillside) with a view of, you guessed it, the Sound, and the first few flakes of their Seattle's first big snow of the year. The food was good and it was great to relax a bit together.

After the dinner and the Space Needle, we went to our hotel and used our GPS to pull up Best Buy to buy a suitable camera for our vacationing. We ended up getting a digital SLR, figuring if we'd ever buy one, we should buy it before going to Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam.

We ate the wonderful breakfast buffet the next day at the hotel and then I took Sara to the airport before driving around to take photos with the camera. I took this one from a big hill in a neighborhood along the freeway.


And this one I took a little closer to downtown (I'm a little blurry because I moved a smidgen while the shutter was open forever to take the shot):


The interviews on Monday were interesting, but very technical and I didn't spend any significant amount of time preparing for them due to school, so I didn't do too well and did not receive a job offer.

But the trip to Seattle was fun. Sara and I saw the space needle, we ate some good meals and spend some good time together. I also got to catch up with an old mission friend who works for Microsoft. And just about all of it was covered by Microsoft. So buy Windows and Office and stuff, yay!