January 10 was my first day in Redmond. We (my dog Kobe and I) left home at around 3:30am EST and arrived tired but happy at Sea-Tac airport at 1:30pm PST. The poor dog was locked inside of his kennel the entire time, but he bounced back fast – he’s a Black Lab, and he’s a very resiliant and good dog.
Once we got to our temporary housing in Sammamish, we promptly got snowed in! This was not what we expected our first night in the Seattle area to be :) We had no food except for the little welcome package that our corporate housing company left for us. Fortunately for us, Dominos was delivering in the snow that night, so Kobe got a lot of human food that night!
The next morning, this is the scene that greeted us outside:
Here’s a photo of our temporary house:
Here’s a photo of the house across the street:
I really like this area that we’re living in (the Timberline region of Sammamish). However, as I discovered later this week, just getting down the hill from here (less than a mile) takes on average 15 minutes in traffic!
Total time into Microsoft averages 40 minutes in the morning. We’ll have to look for another area to live, as picturesque as this area is.
