The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA: Day 1 Seattle

The daily blog of a tourist visiting the USA
Day 1
Was it the day. Oh wait sorry let me start again.
Was it the night I was waiting for? Don't answer that. You wouldn't know. It was.

I could hardly wait. I lay down in bed, desperately trying to sleep. I was so excited filled with the urge of just jumping on the next plane. But I couldn't. I didn't have a car or my passport. It was locked away under the heaviest locked and guarded safe in the world.
Nah it was lying on the table in front of me. But eventually I fell asleep.

The covers were yanked off me but I didn't care. I was up and ready before you could say
'jdndmdkdodoedmdndiemdmdjmdjdjdjdjdjejkdpxxoxkR' I was ready and had put all the suitcases in the car. And we were finally on the plane to the USA.

We were on the Lufthansa plane to Frankfurt and it was a extremely early flight. I wanted to sleep but ended up watching Kung Fu Panda and The Martian and read The Jungle Book before I finally went to sleep. I woke up as soon as we touched down in Frankfurt.

Frankfurt airport was quite big. They had a whole terminal only for departures to the USA. We had to go through a huge security which took us 40 minutes. At the terminal we met up with my grandparents and spent some time at the airport before we boarded. On the plane I read a couple of books and mostly slept as this leg was 11 hours long. So 11 hours+economy+last row near the toilets=a crabby me.

Seattle greeted us with a rainy forecast. We met my cousins at the airport and was overjoyed because I hadn't seen them in flesh for a year. It took us some time to reach our car and pile in the countless suitcases. We even had to rent a TAXI. It wasn't such a long ride but we saw a lot of Seattle.

Seattle was just another American town until Boeing looked     at and said, "This place looks good. Let's make it into a progressive town and we can invite our friends like Microsoft, Starbucks and Amazon." Yes that is actually what happened. In 1916 Boeing started in Seattle and manufactured planes and occasionally poked its nose( get it- the nose of a plane? Huh? Get it? Never mind) into NASA's business. Then Seattle grew and between 1959-1962 the space needle was made. The Microsoft, Starbucks and Amazon started and headquartered here. This became the Silicon Valley of Washington state.

The house was brilliant. It looked like those beach cottages from the outside. It was surrounded by so many different plants you could hardly see it from outside. You would miss it if you were not looking for it. It had two coffee tables but no yard. Had two floors and one basement. It looked like how a house should look and felt homey and reassuring. My cousins raced to the basement and showed me around. The basement was big and so was the laundry room. There was a bedroom there a back door and more space. The cupboards were filled with games but what caught my eye was the XBOX 360 and the numerous games underneath. But what stood out among the dull unvaried sea of games was one game: Wipeout. Period.

After taking out all the suitcases we all piled into our car and went out for a spin into Mognolia Village, the place where we were staying. The place was very beautiful and had many trees and the flora was amazing. We even went to Discovery Park but it was unfortunately closed. We then headed towards Pikes Place Market. It was big and and open market where you could just set up your stall and sell your stuff. We went to the first Starbucks ever made . Since Starbucks stared here there was a Starbucks every block and there was one block where two Starbucks were directly opposite each other. During all of this I was so jet lagged that I couldn't walk properly and was very irritated, but I survived. And a tiring task that was. As soon as we got home I couldn't climb up the stairs and reach my room.