* everyone is friendly in Seattle, seriously everyone
* I always thought of myself as a night owl and not a morning person, it turns out I've just been living in the wrong time zone because on pacific standard time I'm up early! (this may or may not change once I move there and fully adjust...)
* if you are house hunting remotely it's good to do some research beforehand but you need to keep an open mind and have a real estate agent who knows what you want and knows the area well. We checked out many areas and loved all of them, but in the end we bought a house in an area we hadn't even considered before the trip. We were focused on schools and Jeff's commute and we think we found the perfect house for our family that meets all of our criteria
* my kids are awesome...a long flight to Seattle followed by three days of driving all around the Seattle area and looking at house after house...they were very well behaved (even our real estate agent was impressed with how well they'd done)
After having a few beautiful sunny days, we finally experienced the Seattle drizzle...this was taken on one of the floating bridges as we drove to Bellevue
Overall the trip was a success. Not only did we find several homes that would work for us but we even put an offer on one of them. We still need to do all the boring stuff like an inspection, arrange financing, get our house on the market and sell it. Once we have a move date then I can start focusing on the actual move and things like getting the kids registered for their new schools. Because we won't have the house until the end of September, the kids will start school here and we will move when house and schools are all organized. It will be hard for the kids to move once school is started but this happened so fast it just wasn't possible to have everything in place before the start of school. Also, because all of this happened after school ended I think it will be good for the kids to have a chance to say goodbye to all of their friends and teachers.
We are all still a mix of being excited and nervous at the same time. The most important thing is we are all in this together.
The kids loved an entire week of eating at restaurants including The Old Spaghetti Factory
You gotta have Starbucks in Seattle. This isn't The original one, I will be sure to visit it at some point though
At the airport ready to head home after an exhausting week!
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