Day 1: A brief overview

After taking a brief nap in the Seattle airport Mike's flight came in around noon. We were reunited at last and our first mission of the trip was to find proper transportation.

We walked about five minutes until we finally found the entrance to the Light Rail (the Seattle train that goes through the city) and on our way downtown we passed buildings with various murals and paintings on them making the city look relatively bright and happy.

After that we found our hostel which is surprisingly much nicer then I anticipated. The bathrooms are luxurious compared to the one's in my dorm room. We get free food three nights this week as well as complimentary continental breakfast every morning.

Mike and I are in a 6 person dorm. The bunk-beds have nice little shades on each bed for privacy and the two people we have had to share the room with thus far don't seem like serial killers or rapists.

We then spent the remainder of the evening walking around downtown stopping at everything that was shiny and pretty to stand in awe of it's shiny and/or prettiness.