So I am back, and I have to say that even though I LOVE Starbucks, it is really getting out of hand up there in Seattle. There were parts of downtown, where my friend has her office, where there was actually a Starbucks on every block-and in one area, one on each side of the street in the same block. Too much. I remember being appalled at the notion of a drive thru window at Starbucks (I have this thing about drive thrus anyway, like we aren't fat and lazy enough already without making it completely possible to grab dinner, pick up a prescription, get a before-dinner coffee and an after dinner 6-pack of Budweiser all without leaving the car?), and now it just feels more and more inane. I did get a travel mug and a regular coffee cup from there, and I obviously WENT there, but it just seems a little out of control to me. I know I said the coffee is better, and it IS, but that much better? I just don't know.