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Happy birthday to me! Okay, enough with the festivities. Onto the real stuff.

Got up, had a nice breakfast in the hotel, and then came back up to the room to formulate a game plan. Our goal for the morning was to look at a reasonable number of places in a reasonable area. We were extremely picky on our criteria to make sure we didn't waste time looking at too many places. It had to have a certain number of bedrooms, bathrooms, square footage, price, and storage. We were able to with those criteria, narrow the search down to seven complexes. We then mapped out the best route and headed off to the first one.

We loved the first one amazingly enough. Garage. Storage a plenty. It was great. Nice complex. Good location. We had real high hopes if this was going to be the quality of places in this area. Turns out, that one place was one of the 3 best. A couple we didn't even bother looking at because we could tell from the neighborhood and surroundings we didn't want to live there. All in all, out of the original seven, three made the grade.

We found a red robin where took a break for lunch. I had a birthday coupon for a free burger and well huzzah I was going to use it. While we had lunch we listed the things that were important to us and graded the three places on those criteria. The first one we saw one out by a slim margin. It was 57 to 60 points between 1 and 2. Which means if we had to, we could go to 2 if 1 fell through. The third one came in at 51 points. Not horrible, but a good enough chunk down.

Point being is that we are going to do this. It's time. Time to leave behind a state I don't fit into any more. Time to live a new adventure. We got back to the hotel around 2 and B took a nap. I went up to the massage place and made her an appointment for tomorrow then went to the nail place and made me an appointment for a mani/pedi as I desperately need one.

Came back and B got up around 5:30. While I waited for her I watched Episode 4 of Humans. I won't ruin it for anyone but I KNEW IT!

At 6:45 we headed into downtown to have dinner with a very close friend and his girlfriend. They have been together almost 8 months now and I have never seen him so happy. And we have known each other 20 freckin' years. He is extremely happy and looks healthy and good for him. They picked the restaurant and holy shit did they do a good job. (Side note, when we move, we will six miles from them (at least for now) which helps make the decision easier). This place was great. I had an octopus salad, rabbit terrine, salmon terrine, a whiskey flight, oysters, and a cheesecake that was BAM. THIS is why I am okay with moving up here. They like food. Unlike where we live now where I am pretty sure they hate it. That would explain why they deep fry so much of it.

After dinner we went for a nice walk around. The GF is native to the area and she was excitedly telling us about different places. It was nice having a semi tour guide point some stuff out and remind me of other stuff. We walked towards a huge book store, wandered around, then headed back. Said our goodbyes and got back to the hotel around 11. Grabbed B teen wolf which she watched while I slept.

Now today we are off to Seattle to go to the EMP museum. So excited.