Well I guess it’s that season again. I’m not a huge football fan but over the weekend we had some friends in town that all went to UT (University of Texas) with Walker and they were strutting their pride around town. I have a little pride after working for UT for 4 years but it’s not quite the same. It was fun though. After some Paseo sandwiches and beer tasting we headed to the Texas alumni bar to watch the game.
The rest of the evening people kept asking if we were from out of town. I guess if a group of 5 is mostly matching it means tourists. I get that. We set them straight though as well as letting them know about our love for Texas.
This year our friends from Eugene drove up to spend the weekend with us. They were here this same weekend last year but I didn’t arrive until Monday so I was only able to say hello and then they were off. This year was great because I was here for the whole weekend. Our other friend who just moved to town also joined in the fun and it was such a great weekend.
We laughed so hard, stayed up later than usual, played games, ate good food, and tasted lots of Seattle beer. I was exhausted after the weekend and happy to just sit down and relax. It was so worth it though. Spending time with good friends in the best.
Today is exactly 1 year since I arrived in Seattle. I had spent 2 months in Michigan with my family and finally decided I would head out to Seattle after labor day. I had shipped out a few boxes and packed the rest in a couple of suitcases and both excitedly and sadly flew out to Seattle.
Walker met me at the airport (luckily our friends who had just moved to Eugene, OR were visiting for labor day weekend and he borrowed their car) and we drove into my new city and to my new apartment. We unloaded the car and all 4 of us went to a coffee shop before our friends drove back home. I now know the coffee shop is pretty close to our house but at the time its location seemed a mystery to me. Plus I was a little out of it.
Our friends headed home and then it was just Walker and I. He walked me around the neighborhood a little bit and then we found a place to eat. We explored some more and then made our first meal as a couple living together. It was a big day of new things and I’m sure I was pretty emotional but here I am one year later. I made it, I even kind of like it here, and the best news- we just found a new place to live that is absolutely perfect for us! Or at least I really hope it is. There will be more details on that to come.
