Seattle Bound

There's much to say... a lot has happeneed in the past week.

Fort Lauderdale didn't exactly work out as planned. Murray didn't give us the good hookups we were expecting-- he just basically told us stuff we already knew. We handed out our resumes to a lot of people, but nothing came of it. Tried to walk the docks, but they were all locked and had big warning signs saying that you need to have worker's comp insurance to work there. Tried to find a room at a crew house, but they were all full. So after countless dead ends and too many long nights sleeping in the car, we gave up and turned back.

It was a stressful and discouraging trip. We really felt like we were supposed to be there, but it all seemed to be a big waste of time and money. But it was a good experience. We gave up on Ft. Lauderdale, but not on the boats...

Seattle was our back-up plan. Maybe I should re-phrase that. Seattle was our back-up plan for the next 6+ months. All along we'd been planning on being there next fall for me to start seminary. We just weren't sure what to do with the time in between. We were going to try the boats, and if that didn't work out, we'd just move to Seattle a little early.

While in Fort Lauderdale, we discovered that Seattle is a big yacting place in the west coast. Just out of curiosity we checked out the Seattle Times classifieds and found over 50 jobs which directly related to the boating industry (In the High Point classifieds, you're lucky if you find 50 jobs PERIOD). Not to mention several cruise companies that are headquartered there and are hiring right now. So before, it looked like the filler time was either boats, OR Seattle. Now, we're thinking it might be boats AND Seattle. Either way, it's Seattle. We're planning to move after Christmas :)