Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Seattle

This past weekend we were in Seattle for the BYU/Univ. of Washington game. I have never been to Seattle before, heck, it was my first time to Washington! I loved it! We got in Thursday night and stayed with Maria & Skyler. It was so fun to see them and their two boys. Maria showed us around Snoqualmie Falls, which were very cool, and very big, and right in the middle of a town. So bizarre! We stayed up way too late talking, but it was fun to catch up with them.

I could give you a play by play of everything we did, but I'll just list some highlights, and then throw in some pictures. By the way, I added picasa albums to the sidebar, so if you want to see the rest of them, you can check them out there. Thrilling, I know.

  • We went to the top of the Space Needle (very cool views)
  • We went on a Duck Tour (easily my favorite part of the trip!)
  • We went through the Experience Music Project (a letdown. boo.)
  • Pike's Market (gorgeous and very cool as well)
  • Seattle Underground Tour (interesting...and a little weird)
  • BYU Football fireside Friday night (tons of people, but very good and neat to hear the players speak and sing)
  • The big game, which was great considering they won. (Barely.)
  • Seeing Tyler and Stacy Henderson (always a treat!)
  • Sitting in a Bentley. And a Ferarri. (Isn't it fun to have rich friends?)
  • Eating tons of great seafood (clam chowder x2!!)
  • Seeing lots of crazy public art around town
  • Derrick meeting Ty Detmer (his absolute hero!)
Tyler, I love this pic!!!
Ok, I think that's enough pictures! There were just so many good ones to choose from! Seriously, if you want to see more, check out the album.

It was a fab, fab trip. The weather was amazing, not a drop of rain, and everything was gorgeous. So green. I pretty much fell in love with Washington and Seattle!

And why is it that when I travel, I can never poo? Something about not being in a familiar environment always stops me up. That's the only downside to traveling. Boo on the no poo.

5 comments:

Maria said...

Sounds like you guys had a great time! You take great pictures. Except, Who is that fat girl in the black shirt with the cute boy in yellow boots?? :) I guess I should just be glad that the morning photo didn't make the blog. Sorry the EMP was a bummer, I will remember to never recommend it to anyone.

Samantha said...

TMI. Thank you.

When we went to Seattle the Music Experience was closed. We didn't miss out I take it? We went to the Science Museum instead. That underground tour looks awesome, I would have loved that. I liked Seattle. The people there seem hip and laid back, it seems like a cool place to live- William's sister lived there for a while, which is why we went.

You still need to invite me to your shower. If I can't go I'm going to smash things.

Anonymous said...

I was there in April. Its a very clean city. I also thought the Music Experience was overrated. Did you go to that weird store on the waterfront with the shrunken heads? Is Ty Detmer still a Mormon? My first wife's friend baptized him.

Nick

E.F.G. said...

your trip looked fabulous. i'm going to copy the highlight format as soon as we go somewhere again. i thought the underground stuff was fascinating--i knew nothing about seattle's history!

glad you love seattle...before you consider a move, you should probably visit sometime between october and may. i've heard its ugly.

Tyler and Stacy: said...

Love that picture of me...can't stop laughing.

Erica, the weather is great all year round.