Settling In

It's been a while since our last entry, but we've been pretty busy! I arrived in town last Saturday after a week at the annual Endocrine Society meeting in San Francisco. Vicki and her mom got a good head start on unpacking, but there was still plenty to do. The past week has been a whirlwind of cardboard and trips to Target as we work to make our new apartment "home." Setting out our old familiar stuff has helped a lot. We don't have as much storage space here as we did in Charlottesville, so we've had to get creative in finding places to put our extras. (If any of you come to visit, don't look under the beds, okay?)

I think it is going to be a lot of fun living downtown. Most anything we need is a short walk away. Just this afternoon I walked down to Pike Place Market (about 10 minutes) and picked up some apples. How cool is that?

Western Washington is bracing for a record heat wave this weekend. Temperatures are supposed to get into the upper 80's! Oh, no! There was even a severe weather advisory on the Weather Channel. Vicki and I laugh about this--though most people here don't have air conditioning. Fortunately our building is one of the few that does. We'll beat the heat by staying indoors and gazing at the snow-covered Olympic mountains from our balcony.....