Old Friends

Another great thing about Seattle is that it is home to a couple old friends from Nebraska. Andrea, who dates back to kindergarden with Eric and John who dates back to 8th grade with me. They've both been great tour guides for us while we've been here. Yesterday, while Eric was in meetings, John (and baby Emily) took me around to the boat locks, university campus, a couple great book stores, an out-of-this-world video store, that might, alone, be worth living in Seattle for (it's ENORMOUS and the first floor is organized by director, the second floor by genres and the genres by sub genres- for instance the horror section has sub genres such as "vengeful acts of a wrathful god." There is a literature section of books made into movies, plays made into movies, etc. etc. etc.). This video store went way beyond the netflix selection. Some rare and unusual things required a $500 deposit to rent. Blew my mind.

And later when Eric and John's wife Leah could join us, we headed north to the little town where Twin Peaks was filmed. We saw the waterfalls and the lodge and the creepy old train cars and ate at the diner with "the best damn cup of coffee" and cherry pie. None of this means anything if you haven't seen the show but watch the two seasons sometime and I guarantee that this town will creep you out.