A beautiful state with lush green trees and during the fall season the Washington State looks all the more beatuiful and colourful ! no wonder they call as ;The Evergreen state’

The next morning was an early morning..a bright sun-shiny morning! the only sun-shiny morning that we saw in seattle !!

We had to rush to the Canadian embassy and beat the rush-hour traffic from Bothell to the city. So, we started with my brother early in the morning. On the way, we ran into a few weary Friday morning commuters on the 156th avenue in Redmond, the home of Microsoft.

We reached the embassy sharp at 9 am. To our surprise, there was already a truck load of people waiting for their turn and none of them had appointments! So, we waited our turn. It was refreshingly different in the sense that people were allowed to bring in their electronic equipment, cell phones and even laptops into the embassy! We went in their with a small folder of paperwork and had just each other to pass time with.

Three hours and a couple of visits to the nearby starbucks & an ATM (embassy wanted exact cash) later, we were finally granted the canadian visa!! By the time we got out, the only thing we could think of was a good noon-time nap! So, after a quick trip around the downtown we started heading back to Bothell .

It was around 1:00 p.m in the afternoon, people around me started starring at me.. I didn’t understand for a while and then I said to Uday ‘ I don’t know why but people are starring at me.’ So I asked him, ‘ do my eyes look red?? sleepy??’ He then replied ‘ Yes, they are !’ .. and I really was feeling sleepy.. infact we both were feeling sleepy.. We had some more coffee on th way.. thought i might feel refreshed and wont feel sleepy. But it proved wrong, I was feeling even more sleepy, as if I took a sleeping pill. I was totally confused, coffee makes you refresh.. not sleepy ! While we were driving back to home , we had a debate about ‘coffee making you refresh and not sleepy.’ Anyways, we were near home and made 2 quick stops, one at Quzinoz sandwich store and other at the chinese reataurent.. I ordered a sandwich and he ordered a spicy chicken, both to-go. Went home.. had our lunch and off to sleep.

We woke up to a call from my brother inquiring about our visa. To our big surprise, we found it was evening already! Could not believe our plans to go visit a few places around that noon got swept over by our siesta time!

Evening came, we picked up our brother and finally had some good evening chit chat. A few hours later we landed in Tulalip, an Indian casino close to a reservation area and had some fun time there. A few hours and a few lost rounds later, we came home and crashed. we were determined to make the most of Sunday, the next day.

Thats the Tulalips Casino