For our last spring break ever, Jordy and I headed out to the Seattle area to look at apartments and visit family.  After looking online, we had basically decided that we’d rather get a nice big (cheap!) apartment in Bellevue (about 8 miles from Seattle) and make the decently short commute to work rather than spend more money for a smaller apartment in the city.  Also, we’ve already done the ‘living in the city’ thing, so it’s not too big of a deal to try living somewhere else.

For those of you not familiar with the area, Bellevue is quite an interesting city.  It is identified now as an edge city because while it might be viewed as suburban, it has the population of an urban core city.  Bellevue was also #1 on CNNMoney’s list of the best places to live and launch businesses.  Therefore, Bellevue == not too shabby.

So, anyway, we basically only looked at apartments in and around downtown Bellevue, and I think we came out with many great options.  We spent around 2-3 full days just viewing apartments, and fortunately, since we won’t be moving until July, there was a large available variety in the kinds of places and locations that we liked.  Hopefully, when the time comes, we’ll be able to grab one of our favorites!

The rest of our trip consisted of visiting Jordy’s family in Vancouver for a couple of days and staying with my brother in Redmond.  Last summer was my first time visiting Vancouver, and, while I haven’t visited too many cities, Vancouver is one of the coolest looking cities I’ve ever seen (the water and mountains help with that).  Redmond, on the other hand, is not a big city, but more of a Disneyworld resort — parks, perfectly cut green grass, nice people, trees everywhere.  I’m just not used to that.  Both are great places though, and we had a lot of fun while we were out there.

Oh, by the way, when we were flying back home, we had a layover in Las Vegas, so I got to do my first Vegas gambling in the airport.  I only had 2 dollars and lost them both.  Thanks Vegas!