2010 JUL 23 : FRIDAY
We had put an offer on a house in Beacon Hill (but closer to Columbia City) earlier in the week, and had been going back-and-forth on price, but Jim our realtor called and said that they had accepted out last counter-offer. Crazy.
Amanda had been diagnosed with pneumonia last Tuesday, but she still had a fever today. Not good for her weeklong cruise to Alaska coming up.
We did some cleaning in preparation for Amanda’s mom, SDK, and SJ’s arrival. And we packed. I left to pick everyone up at the airport at 11pm.
I believe the airport is finally finished with all of its renovations with regards to the light rail. I still managed to get confused in the parking garage. They have finally moved all the rental cars offsite somewhere, so the entire garage is available for parking. It does cost more to park on level 4 which is where the bridges to the terminal are. I did not really know what airlines everyone was coming in on, so I just parked the car.
I did not have to wait long. SDK was already there, and the others arrived shortly. I had a mental short-circuit and had problems getting back to the car (to SJ’s amusement), but we eventually made it back home.
2010 JUL 24 : SATURDAY
We had bfast at Geraldine’s Counter. I bicycled there because our car was not big enough for everyone. Afterwards, I went home while everyone else took a look at our possible new house.
I had to take everyone down to the waterfront in two trips. Amanda and her mom and the Kai were in the first trip.
It was a little hard to find a place to drop them off, but I ended up just double parking right in the very small loading area. There wasn’t enough time for goodbyes as I was getting pressured by all the people behind me.
I returned for SDK and SJ. We stopped by Safeway for some medicinals and I believe SJ needed some stuff as well. I dropped them off and decided to stick around downtown for a while and perhaps see the cruise ship leave. I would have to kill many hours, though.
As usual, I parked in Pacific Place and wandered down to Pike Place Market. I got a soda (expensive!). The woman totally gave me the wrong amount of change… she thought I gave her a five and not a ten… but fortunately realized her error after opening the register.
I meandered around the Market and eventually made it down to the waterfront and sat around looking at the bay and people-watching. Eventually I decided to get something to eat at Anthony’s Fish Bar which was on Pier 66 right in front of the cruise ship. I picked up some food at the counter and not in the restaurant and sat outside in the sun. Amanda eventually called me; it had taken them forever to get on the ship because the cruise line’s computers were down. She was getting something to eat and could see me down below on the pier. I could not see her, though because of the frosted glass of the ship’s restaurant area.
I walked down to the aquarium, mainly just to use their restrooms, but I did look around a bit.
After leaving the aquarium, I decided not to stick around to watch the cruise ship depart (I was paying for parking after all), and made my way back up to the Market. I walked about the market more, then popped into random places while I made my way back to the car. I stopped at Nordstrom Rack, but nothing was really on sale. Of course, compared to normal Norstrom prices, perhaps everything was on sale, but not cheap anough for me. Daiso was more my style, but I didn’t get anything there either.
Eventually, I made it back to the car. I don’t know what I did for the rest of the weekend. I did do some research on home inspectors and set up one for Tuesday.