BEDA 24: Happy Birthday Mom!/Seattle

Today, like John Green, is my mother's birthday! It is also my aunt's and grandmother's. You heard that right. My mom and my aunt, twins, were born on my grandmother's birthday. I love August 24th. I wore my Pizza John shirt around Seattle in hopes of coming upon a fellow Nerdfighter. Sadly, I did not.

Speaking of Seattle, yesterday was wonderful! The weather could not have been more perfect: the sky was clear and there was a slight breeze and it wasn't too hot and it wasn't too cold.

My mom and I boarded the plane from Tucson to a connecting flight in Phoenix at 8:00 am yesterday. The flight to Phoenix is about 45 minutes. Ridiculous. On the flight to Seattle I slept a bit and then started reading my next Michael Chabon adventure: Wonder Boys. Before I knew it we were landing, getting our bags (or rather my one bag) from baggage claim, and on our way to the light rail to get to downtown Seattle.

You know what? I was right. It really felt like I never left. Walking from the light rail through downtown to the Best Western Loyal Inn was so familiar I could have done it blindfolded.

The first thing we did was go to my favorite favorite place in the whole world: Top Pot Doughnuts. I got a glazed ring and a small coffee, my mom got a raspberry bullseye and a small coffee, and I got my dad a pound of coffee because he is truly, madly, deeply in love with Top Pot's Coffee. After that we were off Science Fiction Museum, another of my favorite places.  I was crestfallen to discover than their new Avatar exhibit was the ONLY THING THEY HAD. Where was the Hall of Fame?! RUINED. THE SCIENCE FICTION MUSEUM IS RUINED. I swear, they better put everything back. I. Hate. Avatar.

After that we went walking around the Seattle Center because it was so beautiful I wanted to see this place in the pretty sunlight.

After that we went down to Pike Place and I went to the Comic Book place downstairs, I'm not sure what it's called, and I got a Flight of the Conchords poster. The LAST one in the store! Total score. Then we went to Zeeks and met my friend Leila there!!! Hooray! That was swell. After dinner I walked with Leila up to Capitol Hill (because I miss it) and to her apartment.

I was absolutely exhausted by the time I got back to the hotel; I fell asleep immediately.

Today my mom and I got everything out of our storage unit, packed it into a rental car (still not sure how we got everything in there), gave Leila some crates and a bookshelf I didn't want, got my mom a salted caramel cupcake from Cupcake Royale for her birthday, and hit the road to McMinnville!

And now here we are. We went to Shari's for dinner and I had to twist their arm until it fell off to get a salad WITHOUT meat on it. Seriously, that's not an option? But it was Free Pie Wednesday, and I got Marionberry and I'm in love with Marionberry, so it was okay. Well, not completely, because they should have vegetarian options, but it was slightly better. After dinner we went over to Linfield and drove around the campus and it's so gorgeous and I'm so so so excited to move in tomorrow!!

Days until school starts: 5

Also, I need a count down or something to keep track of on this blog.... Suggestions?