Easter in Seattle

You might want to sit down and put your feet up... this is kind of a long blog with lots of pictures.

This year for Easter we used our trial time share (a trial time share that totally made us into suckers, but that's for another post) and decided to go to Seattle for a long weekend. Here's what we did:

This was our car ride: long. gross feeling. traffic filled. and buggy.

Unfortunately this picture ended up being mostly of the sun and the top of this lovely red 4 door sedan. But in the middle of the picture, that little red brick building (not so little in real life), that was our hotel. The Camlin. It was right down town, we walked everywhere, it was perfect.

Our friends Boxy and Hannah took us on a day trip to Deception Pass and Fort Casey (not pictured). It was beautiful. And apparently featured in several car commercials lately?

It helps to have friends Dad's who are famous. Kate's Dad, Joel Skinner, is the bench coach for the A's and got us some sweet seats for the Mariners vs. Oakland game. The perfect night for a baseball game in Seattle. (Mariners got crushed incase you wondered).

Probably the most "touristy" thing we did--a recommendation from my Dad. He said he went on this Underground tour when he was in Seattle years ago. He said we HAD to go. We did. It was cool. Basically you go under the sidewalks and see where the city first was--before the big fire in 1889 and it was all rebuilt above sea level (hence all the super steep hills--which my butt now thanks you for). Crazy to see old store fronts, etc.

Easter Morning we went to Mars Hill Church. Except it wasn't at Mars Hill Church, but at the Seahawks Stadium. 17,000 people. Insane.

Adam had 2 things on his "must do in Seattle" list:

1. Get Seafood.

As you can see he did. And all that seafood dumped on our table...was gone by the end of our meal. Yup. GONE.

2. Good Beer
We wanted to go to Red Hook, but didn't have enough time to make the trip. But we went to the Elysian Brewery and I'm pretty sure by the end Adam had tried every beer. Dont worry though, most of them were in sample sizes... and we were there for about 4 hours...so no one was making fools of themselves.

Needless to say we had a great trip. And there was a certain little Stetson-babe who was quite excited to welcome us home. (sorry for the darkness of the photo).