My walk down downtown Seattle

I am watching "So you think you can dance" . Its similiar to the American Idol except every contestant has to dance. And then you have a similiar voting system. But so far they have danced salsa, hip-hop and next is contemporary something. So it might be that my concentration gets diverted while writing :) ............., but today has been a good day. I am thankful and I have been writing in my mind ever since I was walking back home. So its only fair I write it down.

So my office is about a mile away. And I walk the stretch everyday ...there and back. It is probably the only form of exercise that I get ...(but with the amount of eating out I have been doing it isn't really a lot of good :) ) But my eating habits is not something I want to dwell on here.

Downtown seattle is lined with an amazing variety of stores. I cross streets named Spring, Madison, Washington, Columbia, Main, Jackson, Occidental...and a host of others which I have forgotten. By the end of it I inevitably have unbelievably aching feet, trembling knees, and a distraught "if i had a chair i would sit down here" kind of look on my face.

So you have about three magic carpet stores, yes the same Kashmiri carpets exquisitely woven. Don't ask me the price, I have never dared to ask. But each one on display is so captivating that I continuously stare unabashedly(right word remembered at the right moment :) !!) at each window that I pass. There is a toy store called Magic Mouse and Toys, which is the only store I have visited in downtown and that to thrice, once to ask the price, twice to buy a birthday gift for two different birthday friends. The other neighbors are the book-stores.

Have you seen Notting Hill ? Then have you seen the bookstore Hugh Grant runs ? Well , then you won't have trouble imagining the wooden shelves, lined with books till the roof. There is something amazingly romantic about the brown shelves and the books from all categories nestling in them. Somehow , I have only window shopped ....browsed from outside the glasses , never ventured in. I have to spend some time in each soon. Considering they even inspired me to daydream about how great it would be to be able to spend your entire day surrounded by books.

The other store is Starbucks, :) (You've got mail ..yeh yeh !!) Well just for a bit of trivia, Seattle is where Starbucks started its first store. I have seen it too, it has 1912 written on it.

And finally I couldn't end without saying being "Sleepless in Seattle" is not difficult at all. Shobana and Vishnu messaged me after they saw the movie and in between my hike in Snoqualmie. I started reading the message from the end and it read "missing you and love you a lot." :) (I'll leave it at that !!) (I agree my mood is great bcoz the day went well! )