As I posted earlier, Dickson and I arrived in Seattle this morning. I don’t know why we decided we’d go for such an early flight – leaving at 6:45 AM is not something I want to do ever again. Especially considering we didn’t sleep last night. Anyway, we made it across the border fairly easily.
We took the Airporter to our hotel, and were surprised to find that they already had a room ready for us. Being only about 8:30 AM, we figured we’d have quite a bit of time to kill before we got the room. We brought all the luggage up, and then decided to venture out. After some breakfast at McDonalds and a Starbucks for me, we set about solving the Internet problem we had discovered upon entering the room.
The hotel has wireless, but it is not free. And at $10 USD per machine, we’d be spending about $150 during the trip. However, the hotel does have two machines in the lobby that are free to use, and these are not wireless. Seeing an opportunity, we went to Office Depot and bought a router. We also went to Northgate Mall (yes they have one too) to Best Buy to purchase a firewire PCMCIA card so that we can transfer video to our tablets. Once we got back, we were going to hook up the router, but someone was using the computers, so we went to kill some time. Both of us were tired, so we decided a nap would be a good idea.
Around seven hours later, Dickson woke up, and then woke me up. I guess we needed some sleep. Before going back to setup the router, we decided to eat first. We tried to find a Denny’s, but couldn’t, so we gave up and went to McDonalds again (though a different one than this morning). Instead of walking all the way back to the hotel, we took the Seattle Monorail – very cool! It actually goes quite fast, so it doesn’t take very long to get from one end to the other at all. The other neat thing we discovered today is the Metro. They have an entire underground bus terminal, and the big transit stops all have electronic signs with the status of your bus. Very neat.
Since getting the Internet working, we’ve been busy programming and updating and testing. I am in the lobby right now, sitting by the fireplace. I am sure the hotel staff thinks we’re nuts, awake at this time. Little do they know, it’s just par for the course!
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