Back in the States

..but this time in Seattle! And the best thing is: we can finally understand everybody again!!! ;-) In the end it was kind of frustrating not to be able to understand those Argentinians but now everything is easy.
Well.. easy is probably said too much.. Miri brought us into some more or less serious trouble! So we had two flights to get to Seattle (from Buenos Aires to Houston and then to Seattle) and it took 20 hours! Plus the time change, no showers and bad entertainment.. you can guess how we arrived at the airport... There we had to look for a place to store our luggage and call Angel (pronounce: anchel) who is the owner of the couch we are crashing on right now ;-) So it was about 11 in the morning and Angel had to work till about 9.30 (we already knew that.. that's why we stored the backpack..) which meant that we had to figure out what to do with that time. So what else is there to do in a city than walk around and look at some buildings, the waterfront, the library.. what? you don't normally first go to the library when you get to a town? ..well we either but this one is quite fancy! It's all modern and looks crazy in the inside! AND: there is free internet for 90 mins!! So you can guess where we are right now^^
So at around 8 we went back to the airport, wanted to call Miris sister from there and get the luggage and all the sudden Miri notices that her Passport isn't there! We looked everywhere but we couldn't find it. There were just too many things in her little backpack.. oh I thought I am going to go crazy! We asked at the information desk but nobody has seen it. So we could only go back into town and meet um with Angel because it was already 9. We were so devastated the whole busride back and didn't talk one word.. and it took for ever.. finally we found out that we had taken the wrong bus which took 45 minutes to town instead of 20! AAAHHH what a messed up day! You can guess how we felt.. So when we go to the meetingplace Angel of course wasn't there and all the payphones we could find were either out of order or took our money but didn't dial the correct numbers.. in the end we asked some guys if we could use their cell phone and it turned out that Angel was only about 100m from where we stood. Thank god! What a relief! One thing that worked this day..
Just before we went to bed Miri threw all of her stuff out of the backpack and, guess what we found.. THE PASSPORT
..I wanted to kill her! So much trouble because of NOTHING!!!

So as you can see in the end it wasn't too bad but still.. it could have been really bad!


Today we went to a really nice part of the city, called Seattle Center. It is actually a really nice park with a lot of art and tons of tourist attractions (which we didn't go to^^) and now we're here in teh library again to finally catch up with all the stuff we didn't during the last week.

And the best thing is: Tomorrow (in about 21 hours we will see Rebekka and Miris Dad! Yeehaw!