Greetings From Snowy Seattle

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For the next 8 days - I will be reporting to you from Seattle. Nancy and I traveled here all day yesterday - leaving Tallahassee at 9:30 AM - and getting here at 11:30 PM Eastern Time. There was a big layover in Atlanta. Most of our flight was on a Boeing 767 wide body - and it was relatively bumpy flying over that storm that was attacking the mid section of our country.

We are here mainly because Nancy is doing a presentation of her Project LEAD to the American Library Association Convention. The librarians gather twice a year somewhere in the USA. Nancy's presentation will be 1 PM - your time - today. Nancy loves going to these conventions and meeting all the other "library people" from all over the country.

To our surprise - we woke up early today - 5:30 here - to a teaming snow storm. Since we are about 8 blocks from the convention center - I had the pleasure of driving our trusty snow white Kia Optima V6 that short distance. In that little round trip - I saw two fender benders and two cars do 360's. It appears they do not get this much snow here often - I have not seem any plows or salt trucks. The news said it will be clear by 10 AM. It was fun seeing school snow delays stream across the TV like back home on WNEP.

The picture above is from our Best Western Hotel. It is snowing hard and you can see how close we are to the Space Needle. Click the picture to see the snow and cars. It is no big deal to most of you readers - but since we came from Florida - it was fun to see snow - when you do not have to shovel it.

Nancy got our hotel on Priceline.com. We have it for 6 nights - so we were able to settle in a bit. Most of the convention hotels were $250 a night - but we got this one for $60. Not bad - when you could really walk to the convention from here - but knowing Nancy - she will want to ride a limosine - like Aerosmith. I will shuttle her daily.

During the rest of the time here - I will be free to travel the great Northwest. We plan to visit Vancouver, Canada - maybe Mount Saint Helens - but most of the time will be spent in Seattle.

Our hotel has free breakfast - if this morning's breakfast was an indicator - that will nice. Since it is open from 5:30 to 10:30 - I may be able to slip in lunch there too :-) The parking and Internet are free. There is a big gas fireplace in the lobby too.

Funny story - we arrived in the hotel at 11:30 PM - your time - last night. The heat was not on in the room - so it was cold. I put the heat on and got ready for bed. During the night the room was cool - not cold. When I woke up this morning - to check out the weather - I opened the curtain - and our room window was open the whole night - and snow was blowing in the window. No wonder it felt breezty all night!

Thanks to George and Joel Dawson for house sitting while we are away. We left 78 degrees in Tallahassee and I had spent a full day running errands on my scooter in shorts and sandals. I even jumped into the pool for a few seconds when Nancy dropped the pool brush and pole into the deep end. The air was warm - but the pool water is below 60. It did not feel as bad as I expected.