Well its been 3 months now and after being fairly well settled in by now I thought I would give some quick thoughts into life as an expat in Seattle. Now I have not yet gone out much and hit the town (one im just not that kinda person but secondly been way to freaking busy) but this Saturday sees me starting my first Boot Camp over here on a Saturday morning so that should be something a little different. But either way I am really happy over here, to be perfectly honest, I don’t know if i could ever go back.

I am loving the “heatwave” that summer has been having up here in Seattle. Going to hit 95F on friday. Thats right we should hit 35C. O yeah its like summer back home in Brisbane. Now my apartment isn’t really set up for that heat, and it usually hits the high around 5pm over here, not around the 1 or 2pm mark but thats because the Sun sets in the west so takes a lot longer to heat Seattle up to its height. But that’s fine because at the end of the day when I am walking out of work, in the sun on a day like today (it was about 85 i think not sure) its like bliss. I walk out and just think to myself, I love it here. And its also a similar situation around the time i take lunch (between 130 and 2 usually) and I can go out into the Courtyard between the buildings where they have tables, chairs and umbrellas set up or next door into the Square outside of the Microsoft building onto the grassy green park and sit out in the sun, read a book, write a letter, enjoy the sunshine while having my lunch. That is my new life, its what I have enjoyed.

Now in saying that, I know those things wont be possible for much longer till summer comes to an end and winter starts to come in, but I haven’t lived a “real” winter before and I am still going to appreciate the cold and the dreariness for all different reasons. I hope it snows, I really do. I want to live through a snow storm, I want to just get out there and make a snow angel, write my name in the snow 😉 But that is a few months off yet. So we shall leave those stories for another time. I don’t think I was ever this happy back home in Brisbane.

Brisbane will forever be my home. I will never say a bad word about it. I grew up there, spent 30 years of my life in the same house, the same neighbourhood. I knew every little square inch of Mitchelton and Everton Park and it will forever hold a cherished space in my heart. I know my folks always talked about moving to the Coast and buying an apartment by the water, to be truly honest, I hope they don’t. But Seattle feels right to me, sure i may moan on occasion about it being cold when it shouldn’t be, or grey when it should be blue. But any city will have that. I am still happy of the change i made. Tomorrow i will make another post about life here in the USA, but this one about the food… so stay tuned.