Seattle Celebrates

Since the Seahawks won the Super Bowl last Sunday, this city has been in full celebration mode. I marvel at the shear amount of team clothing these people have.  They've been wearing blue and green gear every day since last Thursday or so, leading up to the Superbowl and celebrating after. It still continues, but is perhaps finally starting to wind down. Yesterday, they had a parade down 4th Ave. to welcome back the team. They were originally estimating that 300,000 people would attend. Then, they upped it to 500,000. Then 750,000 actually showed up!  It was quite a sight to see. 3/4 of a million people on one street, although a long street, really means that most people couldn't see anything! And, the parade took an hour longer than anticipated because they were having trouble keeping the parade route clear of people!

Naively, I thought Jack and I could visit the local library, and then pop out to the street when time for the parade, so we headed for the library around 9:45am (parade started at 11:30).  There were so many people already there that it took us 30 minutes to go 4 blocks, most of the time spent trying to get across the street to the far side of the parade route. The library was a good idea because it gave us something to do and was warm, but I quickly realized popping outside wasn't going to happen. People were standing 200 deep in front of the library, so even if we did go outside, there was no way we'd be able to see. So, we decided to watch the parade from a window on the 9th floor of the library. It turned out to be a pretty decent viewpoint. However, it took until nearly 1:00 before the parade made it to our block, so we spent 3 hours at the library yesterday! Here are a few pictures:

Watching the parade from upstairs, Jack developed an intense desire to have a flag. He doesn't care so much about the Seahawks, and I couldn't figure out why he wanted one, but he asked so many times that when the opportunity arose on the way home afterward, I purchased him this $5 flag.  He's been carrying it around every since waving it and talking about his "race car flag." He waves it and yells, "Ready, Set, go!" Apparently, we've watched too many race car shows because he associates flags with starting a race, but he's very excited about it. 

In other news, we have had an offer accepted on a house, so we will have somewhere to live in mid-March if all the inspections stuff comes out right. I'm looking forward to having more to do with some updating, painting, gardening, and things like that. And, I'm looking forward to having our own stuff again!!