Well, the weather followed me for at least part of the day today. I started the day with breakfast at Tasty and Sons, a farm to table restaurant in Portland. Did I mention how many restaurants there are in Portland? Especially farm to table? Yeah, it was really difficult to choose the places I'd eat, but Tasty and Sons was a fantastic choice. The omelette I had was incredible.
After breakfast, I headed up to the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site - another $3 saved by using my National Parks Annual Pass. Woo hoo! The fort was.... well, it was a recreation. Nothing there was original. A lot of it was still interesting nonetheless, except that it was raining. Ugh. We all know how I feel about that. There was a blacksmith and a carpenter on-site today. The blacksmith was interesting and I talked to him for a bit, but I managed to visit the carpenter right when a family with 4 kids was also visiting him. So, of course, they took all his attention with "what's this?" and "can I try that?" and "what's that?" I cut out of there a bit early.
Right on schedule, I left Vancouver to head up to Seattle. A good 3 hour drive - almost through Harry Potter book 5. I was getting tired right on schedule around 2:30, but I had an appointment to make, so there was much slapping myself in the face and turning on the air conditioner on high and talking to myself.
At 3:30, I had a tour scheduled of the Theo Chocolate Factory. This brings the factory tour count for the trip up to 4, if you include the Boudin Bakery in Disneyland, which I do. I bought a bit of chocolate after the tour (a $4 cherry chili chocolate bar is totally worth it, right?), and then headed up to my friend's house where I'm staying in Seattle. Seattle traffic patterns are a mess, by the way. Even with my GPS, I ended up in the wrong lane, forcing myself to make a wrong turn at least twice.
We went out to dinner at a great local seafood place and then came home and split a bottle of wine. So great to catch up with her.
Also - I heard today from my apartment complex back home and I officially have an apartment lined up to move into on the date that I'd like in September. Woo hoo! One less thing to worry about!
Tomorrow - being a tourist in Seattle!
We toured Theo when we were in Seattle too - yummy!
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