Laurie finally did give me the "real" pictures from our trip to Seattle, she's been bugging me to post them since I got them downloaded to my computer (although they are posted on facebook).
Our trip in a nutshell:
We arrived on Thursday pretty close to midnight, so we slept in on Friday. Both Laurie's brother and sister-in-law had to work so we took the bus into downtown Seattle for the day. We did Pike's place market and ate lunch there. I ate a peanut butter, banana and hot fudge sandwich which Laurie took pictures of - it was delicious! After wandering around for awhile, we took the bus into the U district to a yarn/fiber/weaving store there. While we were waiting for the bus, we saw someone get hit by a bus. Pretty random - it wasn't the bus driver's fault, it was an older woman with a walker who got hit. She was trying to bang on the back door of the bus after it was pulling away. Not a very smart thing to do. There were tons of people waiting for the buses, so we didn't get involved. I've already posted what we got from the yarn store, so I'll skip that... We met Matt and Monica for dinner at a Argentine restaurant and had some yummy south american food... Monica was a little disappointed by the food and we ducked out just as they started the tango portion of the entertainment there.
Saturday, we did the Puyallup Fair, which was a lot of fun :). We spent a lot of time looking for fiber but we did do other things! I got to pet a baby alpaca and Matt and Monica took an old western photo at one of the booths. We also looked at the quilts and knitting competitions and were a bit disappointed with the llama obstacle course. We ate all the traditional fair foods - cotton candy, candy apples, hot dogs, etc. (We were so ready to have real food when we went home!) The last thing we did was ride the ferris wheel, they let us push the wheelchair up the exit so I could get on. Monica wasn't too keen on the height and it went pretty fast for a ferris wheel. It was awesome though, we hadn't been on a ferris wheel since germany.
Sunday, we met up with one of their friends, David, and went out to Mount Rainier national park. We had a nice picnic lunch and they went for a little hike while I napped in the car. We did dinner at a good seafood place by Matt and Monica's house and watched Amelie pretty late. (Well, I didn't watch the movie - I was way too exhausted.) We flew home early Monday morning. It took me pretty much all week to catch up on sleep after we got home. It was pretty exhausting for me and I really pushed it to do the things that I wanted.
Laurie's parents arrived here on Thursday night and have been helping us out with projects around the house. So I have lots to catch you up on still... But it's pretty close to nap time so I think I'll leave that for tomorrow. :)
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