A new city and new adventure

After a very arduous journey to Seattle (29 hours of travel from Dublin - OYE!) we are safe and sound and getting our lives in order.  I really can't believe how much we have fit into the past six days.

On Saturday morning (after getting to bed at 2 am since our plane was so late) we started looking at houses - almost 30 over two days all across the greater Seattle/Bellevue/Redmond/Kirkland/Sammamish areas.  We have narrowed it down to two at this point and the next few days will be telling as to what happens and what we decide...stay posted.

We also ended up with two new (used) cars as of last night! We had only stopped by the Audi dealership on Tuesday for Reeves to look at the color of a car - well, there was this beautiful, shiny A4 sedan on the showroom floor that I fell in love with - I wasn't even looking to get an Audi, but after two previous days of snow and ice, the all-wheel drive was looking very good.  So, we went back yesterday and I test drove the car and by the end of the evening we were signing contracts for my new car and a new car for Reeves, specifically their Avant wagon.  We are now an Audi family!

We are still, however, waiting to pick up our cars since we are still waiting to have our funds transfer here - a whole other series of events I don't need to repeat anytime soon.  While we are so happy to be back in the land of customer service (and we have had some great people working to help us) it is amazing how much paper work, phone calls, faxes and snail-mail it takes just to move our own money from one place to another!

I will be very happy when we can slow down enough to reflect on the fact we are in a brand new city.  We are, however, very much looking forward to enjoying all the Pacific Northwest has to offer, maybe after we can get a full night sleep first! :)