If you haven’t heard from us in a while, it is because we were in Seattle! This was the last week of Nate’s sabbatical and we packed our bags, left the girls with the grandparents, and flew to Seattle. Our dear friends, Cliff and Mackenzie, live in Seattle and we have been wanting to visit them for awhile. We were very fortunate to spend time with them and visit in their brand new home!
We ate a LOT of food while we were there…Cliff and Mackenzie had so many amazing, one-of-a-kind restaurants to take us to. The food was delicious, but we are looking forward to NOT going out to eat for some time! We had lots of clam chowder, crab, mussels, salmon, halibut, etc. I was able to try sushi for the first time and liked it! And…we were confronted with Mackenzie’s incredible addiction to doughnuts…she definitely knows where to find some good fresh doughnuts!
We spent time at the famous Pike Place Market, visited many, many coffee shops (the first Starbucks, Seattle’s Best Coffee, Tully’s, Peet’s, etc…to name a few!), hiked at Lincoln Park, enjoyed the Puget Sound and Alki Beach, went on an underground tour of Seattle (very cool!), went to the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival (gorgeous!), took a ferry to Bainbridge Island, and experienced our first winery. We went to Mount Rainier for the day in hopes of hiking, but found ourselves in the rain…and then heavy snow! I was wearing ankle socks and Mackenzie didn’t bring a coat. Needless to say, we didn’t do much hiking, but had lots of laughs and got some great pictures.
I was also very fortunate to be 30 minutes away from a H.S. friend (not a youth group kid, but from when I was in H.S.!). I spent one morning driving to Issaquah and seeing Amy and her two adorable little girls (made me miss my girl’s more!). It was so neat to chat with her (haven’t seen her in 8 years!). She is so on fire for God…what a wonderful woman!
Yes, we had a busy time while we were there, but it still felt like we got to relax as well. We really enjoyed getting such a great "taste" of Seattle. Nothing like good friends, good food, and good clean fun! We will try to post pictures soon…we took 600 so we’ll really have to scale that down! :)
