sleeping in seattle

i promised my doctor i'd get lots of rest and not over-exert myself, plus getting on a plane with a head full of snot would be torture - plus, frankly, there were no seats on any flights out of seattle for the last two days or the next two days. so we're here for the duration.

after two nights in an airport hotel, we finally accepted we need to stay here for a while, so we scored a room on hotwire at the crowne plaza downtown. we had already enjoyed good afternoon naps in the beds here (which are always among the best anywhere, plus they give you lavender linen spray...mmmmm) when we heard knocking on our door. i looked through the peephole and saw two kevin-ish looking guys on their cell phones; i figured they had the wrong room and would mosey along. then our door opened! justin shooed them away...and then the door opened again! this time, they were with a security guy, who let them in! and then while justin was screaming at the front desk staff, the door opened again! this time, it was a completely different couple with a clerk!

the end result is that they moved us to a suite (but not before i stripped the first room of its sleeping aids and premium toiletries!) and are comping our breakfast and internet connection. woo-hoo! seattle was not what we had in mind when we decided to get lost (belize was more what we packed for), but it's working out okay for us. besides the deluxe accomodations, we've enjoyed a couple of walks to and around the pike place market and will probably go back for more tomorrow. today we saw the lunch counter where tom hanks and rob reiner discussed the date with the frizzy-haired decorator in sleepless in seattle, but they didn't have much for justin to eat, so we ambled on to saigon, a vietnamese lunch counter, where we had fabulous vietnamese sandwiches (tofu for justin, roast pork for me), and then we got the doughnut guy to turn on the little machine and make us some hot mini donuts, which we ate right from the paper bag on our walk back to the hotel. tonight we went to a place called dilettante, which is a dumb name for a mocha place that is anything but amateurish; we had fantastic, almond-flavored mexican chocolate in a setting that made us both think of the chocolateria in a little alley off the plaza del sol in madrid, where we always ended a night of pub-crawling with cups of thick, pudding-y hot chocolate and churros. then we wandered around downtown and had a couple of small plates at il fornaio, which was surprisingly good for a chain. tomorrow, between naps, we plan to hit the art museum and a bolivian restaurant across from the market.

maybe the best thing about seattle is that while it's a new destination for both of us, it's not so exotic that we feel compelled to rush around and see everything...which is giving us plenty of time to talk over things, the biggest thing being the future and in particular our reproductive future. we have some objectives to accomplish first (some more genetic testing, counseling for both of us), but we will be the parents of another child.