Extendedstay Seattle Bothell

... exactly another's, but they can give a good idea of what to expect. More exact information can be gathered from official websites, but many are not in English. If you do a Google search on where you're going there's a "translate page" option to the right of the link, it translates most of any page into English without installing any language packages onto your computer. *Try to learn the language. Key phrases can save you the ...

... to a soft patch (that really got me). There were different options of doors to go into, I wasn't sure what they said but we just picked a random one. We wound up in a waiting room with glowing floor and the hostess (dressed in a short pleather cop suit) got ready to seat us. First, she carded me (lol, the first time the whole trip). I handed her my passport and she took a look at it. Then she got out a piece of paper and asked me to spell my name. She ...

It's been a few entries of this information (sidetrakced, can't help it, I have a widdle babykins). Here's the last of it, though, all of the places I mentioned in the Planning entry will be explained (and a few that I didn't mention which I won't be going to but that sounded cool)! *Christon Cafe: A cathedral Christion-esk bar and restaurant. Beautiful! Read the description under the picture for website info. Located at 8F ...

... their number is (03)3477-2208. Open 5pm-4am (5pm-11pm Monday). It's got a very cool Asian theme, with a giant Buddha in the center of the restaurant and very cool old-fashioned Japanese decor. There is another location at 3F Daini Towa Kaikan 1-21-1 Kabukicho, Shinjuku-ku, their number is (03)5292-2206. Open 5pm-4am Mon-Sat, 5pm-11am Sunday. The website is in Japanese, and is tricky to navigate, but it's www.ug-gu.co.jp, if you ...

... two birds with one stone as the library happened to be virtually the only thing that Donna liked about Vancouver! I returned to Seattle after my few days in Vancouver, the place where it all started seven weeks prior. The time had certainly flown by, and I'd had an amazing time, but I was quite content to be going home - I'd fulfilled all my ambitions for this trip, and I had a whole lot of memories to take with me..............

After a busy evening of final packing, shopping and searching for all the essentials, I drove Patrick to my place to crash at around 1:30am.  A refreshing 2 hours of sleep later, I got up and caffeinated and picked up Nathan and Valerie so we could hop a taxi-van to SeaTac at 5am.  The American Airline cancellations didn't effect us, so we had an ample 2 hours to relax in the terminal with a coffee, muffin, and Wendy's hamburgers.  To each his own ...

Here is some more info on all of those destinations I mentioned (including pricing, hours of operation, etc.) All prices are in US dollars. *Puroland: Open 10am-5pm Mon-Fri, Closed Saturday, 10am-8pm Sunday and holidays. Adult passport $40 advanced ($44 at the door) a good deal, you get unlimited stay, games, and some shows, too! Regular entrance is $30 at the door for adults and you buy "joy tickets" to ...

... called the tour company that did the Shipton's Arch tour mentioned in Adventure magazine and signed on. Then I started buying books and maps and more books and more maps until I had more books than I could read in six months and more maps than I could carry with me. I bought a digital camera (and a book on how to use it) and took a couple of classes. I read the tour company's list of stuff to bring (mostly hiking and camping gear and first-aid supplies), re-read parts of ...

... asked to practice English with us when we were at a beach. We knew he was trustworthy because we sat next to him (not the other way around) and his English was pretty bad. He did need practice. Usually the scammers have great English and they hang around the touristy spots. Don't trust people just loitering around touristy spots offering advice. Big red flag. Anyone else have some good scams to note? If so, leave them in our comments!

December 1 and I have snow in my yard! Unbelievable, for this temperate-clime convergence-zone area of Washington state. They are ecstatic in the mountains, with early (make that prosperous) openings for the ski runs. When I announced that I was moving to Seattle, way back in 1980, everyone in the south visualized me in parka and snowboots, barely surviving the winter in dim igloo light. It's so far NORTH. One of my southern grandsons was afraid to visit Seattle ...