Seattle Weekend

I went up to Seattle over the weekend to visit friends.  I took the Bart down to SFO after work on Friday evening and enjoyed the convenience of the whole set up.

Eric and Chie

週末、友だちなどに会うためにシアトルに向かう。金曜日の夕方の最後のミーティングが終わったらBartに乗って空港に向かう、ダウンタウンから空港まで25分ほどで付く、これはかなり便利。

Seattle should be a lot more convenient when the light rail is finally completed from the airport to downtown (and hopefully beyond).

シアトルも空港からダウンタウンまでの電車が2009年にやっと完成するらしいから、楽しみ。

However, for this trip, I got a rental, I was hoping for a small midsized Japanese car, but I got a medium sized Ford SUV (or maybe it was a crossover).  Chie and Eric from Amazon were kind enough to let me stay with them, so I got to spend the next hour trying to find Eric's house which is ten minutes from the airport within a thick, thick fog.

今回は車をレンタルした、比較的運転がしやすい車を期待していたが、実際はちょっと大きめのSUVだった。Chieとエリックが泊まって良いと言ったので、すっごい霧の中空港から10分ほどにあるエリックの家を探す。1時間ぐらいかかった。

Uncle Joe and Aunt Mutsu

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I spent the rest of the weekend visiting family and friends.  I met my Seattle grandparents and went over a brief recap of the last forty years.  I then went way north to Lake Stevens to meet the Worsts who I stayed with while in high school (Shawn and I were in the same class).  I probably should have thanked them for not killing me during the five years I lived in Seattle, I'm sure the temptation did surface at some points. Saturday evening was spent at Hans and Nadya's watching "An Inconvenient Truth," the movie still isn't showing in Japan, so I just bought the DVD.
シアトルの祖父母に会いに行きここ40年ぐらいの話をした。その後シアトルの北、45分ぐらいのところまで走っていく。水と山が大好きな僕としてはアメリカの中でやはりシアトルが一番好きな街だと再確認した。ここで育ったって事もあるだろうし。

Seattle Winter 2006