A quick overnight at the SeaTac Holiday Inn on International Boulevard made us grateful the weather is cool and rainy. Our first room wouldn't drop below about 76 degrees despite the intervention of the maintenance man who jump-started the compressor. The window didn't open so we called the Front Desk, who offered us another room shortly after 11:00 p.m. The air conditioner didn't work any better but at least we could open the window.
Better some noise than an all-night sauna but it's not our favorite kind of choice. This is our first night in an Intercontinental property since being comped to Gold in a cute promotion run for Hilton Hhonors members when Hilton devalued its points. Not the greatest start, even at a relatively cheap rate.
Kathy and Brian
Two retired educators alternating joyfully between seeing the world and enjoying our eight grandchildren (in order of birth), Jake, Avery, Taegan, Lily, Peyton, Riley, Blane, and Jace.
Kathy and Brian met in the clarinet section of the University of California (Santa Barbara) Symphony Orchestra several decades ago.
Brian's Western Canadian roots and Kathy's Colorado ties resulted in their making beautiful music together along with producing a cross-border crop of descendants.
Kathy spent a year studying in Vienna at the Institute for European Studies and the University of Vienna.
Brian started the school band program in Hope, British Columbia, and later became the high school's vice-principal for 6 years and subsequently principal for 15 years before retiring in 2001.
Kathy, in between raising our three children, taught kindergarten and first grade, middle school, and high school - mathematics, computer studies, ESL, and her first love, band, before retiring in 2001.
We enjoy sharing our travel experiences and providing the odd travel tip to friends, relatives, and visitors.