A shakedown trip for the two-ish months of travel ahead

For the next two months or so I will be away more than I'm home.  I love to travel. I love meeting new people and engaging culture that is new to me or at least different from my own. 

Brian and I are in Bellingham, WA visiting blended family kid #6, AKA "the baby," for a long weekend. The culture surprises here come primarily from spending extended time with Gen Z 😆. We took the baby's roommates and their boyfriends out to dinner last night at The Black Cat 🐈‍⬛️  in Fairhaven and had lovely discussions over excellent food. 

We arranged to meet kid for breakfast but forgot to account for defrosting the windshield, something we don't do often at home in California, ❄️❄️❄️ but thanks to a misunderstanding about how far the restaurant was from the hotel and kid's need to defrost her windshield we made it on time 😆. 

We are having a down afternoon. We put together a jigsaw puzzle and now it's rest time before we go out to see some cool places. 

The view out the side window this morning at 26°. Sorry the pics are sideways; I'm traveling without a computer and the phone app won't rotate them.