It's Friday!

Terry had a hard time sleeping so he worked on the puzzle while he was up last night.  We got it finished this morning before breakfast. 

It's really a pretty scene, but we were surprised at the many different colors that showed up throughout.  It kept us on our toes and surprised us on occasion when we found pieces that fit.

We went to the clinic for blood draw and a team visit, but when we showed up for our visit we learned that it was no longer needed.  We take that as good news since they didn't have anything to tell us.  Remember that the chemo infusion doesn't work fast enough to know if it is helping yet and the blood counts are lowering again because of medications, so we are kind of on hold for now. We'll see them Tuesday and see if there is any other news.  For now Terry is achy and exhausted (probably because of the low counts), we keep trying to walk and exercise to help him rebuild muscle and strength. 

We walked back and after lunch we walked down to find a bank that was supposed to be a few blocks away.  The internet was a bit slow at telling us that the spot the bank was in is now an empty lot waiting for construction.  (It doesn't have Bartell Drugs on the map and we know it is here.)  There is so much construction going on that they apparently can't keep up with it. It is everywhere, like in this photo here ...

 

Perhaps you noticed the 12 flag on the upper right corner of the building project????  We saw many of those and other signs of Seahawks everywhere.  We've heard about the rally going on down town today and we were warned to stay away or we might not make it back.   The talk of the town is the upcoming game.



 

 

 

This next flag might be hard to see, but it's kinda centered in the photo above the white flag.

 

And we do see a lot of those little cars all the time.  They are everywhere ... Car2Go.

I forgot to mention that we saw some flags on our walk yesterday.  Here is one ...

 

And we saw this pig.  It must be related to the pig we saw at Pike Market a few years ago.

We stopped at Bartell's along the way and got some reading glasses for Terry.  We found more signs that this is the Seahawks territory.  The 12th Man/Fan is definitely big around here.  Maybe we'd find it in stores at home too, but I guess I don't really pay attention to it, or maybe I'm not in the stores when these things are.

 

We have walked this route before, but today it was at lunch time and we saw all kinds of food trucks and stands selling lunch along the city sidewalks.   Those trucks are all in addition to the little cafes tucked in everywhere already.  We had eaten so we didn't stop at any of those places ... I think those food trucks are off limits for Terry at this point anyway.   

As I write this I hear the sirens close by again, which fits right in as we share about a few of the Sights and Sounds of Seattle.

There was still a lot of time left in the day when we got back to the apartment. We spent the rest of the afternoon and evening hydrating, infusing Ganciclovir, watching TV, putting our feet up, doing laundry, making cranberry bread (from the muffin mix we were given in our Christmas package) and scrapbooking.   It always seems strange when we can fill our day with walks and appointments and still have so much time left. Some days seem really long because it feels like we have spent so much time already doing the things we've done, but it's no time at all compared to what we do and are familiar with in our real world ..., back home.


We still have more time today ...
and we've even checked off publish a post on the blog.