More visitors last week! This time my parents came into town for a quick visit before heading down to SF to visit the rest of the kids. They came in late Wednesday night and by the time we got home it was sleepy time. Thursday morning we took our time getting moving (yay for being on vacation!) and headed over to Top Pot Doughnuts for breakfast. Looooove me some Top Pot. The downtown store is such a great space and the coffee and baked goods are so delicious. So after we got hopped up on sugar and caffeine we headed out into town to be tourists at the Pike Place Market. We just wandered around for a while, then wandered around a little more at the waterfront and eventually wandered back to the apartment to get ready for our next bit of fun...yard work! I promise I didn't force my parents into involuntary servitude, but they wanted to see our new house and help out with it. My mother also happened to have smuggled a few wonderful Michigan plants into her suitcase for us to plant! My favorite is the Rhubarb! Straight from my mom's garden which makes it even more awesome. Hopefully next spring I'll have some good plants to harvest and bake into all kinds of rhubarb goodness! No more buying it from the store for me...woohoo! She also brought some Iris plants that have been spread around my extended family starting with my Grandma's yard, so now they're transplanted into Seattle, which is awesome! So we spent a few hours planting those plants and weeding out a bunch of the overgrown mess of existing plants while letting Ben run sprints around the house to get rid of some of his energy.
Top Pot!
Pike Place Market
Planting Rhubarb!
After working hard we headed back to the apartment to get primped up for a fancy dinner at the space needle! Although it's super touristy, it's actually a really nice restaurant and obviously has awesome views of the city. It's so pretty at night to see all the lights of Seattle. We went a little early to get a few views at the sun was setting, then had our delicious dinner in the rotating restaurant to get some more good views and brews ;) We walked around the observation deck a little more after dinner before heading home for the night.
Space Needle Observation Deck
Space Needle Restaurant
Friday it was forcasted to rain pretty heavily most of the day in Seattle, so we took the opportunity to chase down the sun shine on the eastern side of the mountains by driving over to Wenatchee for a day hike on the dessert mountains. It's amazing to watch the change of scenery as you drive east. When we got to our hike it was sunny and mid 60s! The hike was a few miles up a mountain right at the edge of the Colombia River, so we got great views of the river on the way up. We didn't quite make it all the way to the end of the hike before we decided we should probably turn around, but we had great weather, great views all over, and great exercise for the day! On the way home to Seattle we stopped for a few hours in Leavenworth to check out the cute little German Christmas shops and grab some more delicious dinner.
Saturday we did a lot of relaxing...or I guess really we did a lot of football watching which doesn't require a lot of effort. Although for Auburn it was a pretty disappointing game to watch. We spent the rest of the afternoon driving around to a few of Ryan's projects so mom and dad could see all the fun things that he gets to work on. It's always fun to see what kind of progress has happened since the last time I was there too. That evening we stayed in and grilled up a delicious dinner and watched a movie which was a nice relaxing way to wind down their Seattle vacation.
Sunday morning we headed over to Ballard to Mars Hill church for their service. I think when we move to Queen Anne we'll try to go to that church a little more often since it'll be closer. They always have such amazing music which is a great way to get the day started! After church we grabbed some brunch in Queen Anne before having to head back to the airport so mom and dad can start their next vacation in San Francisco! Hope they had/have fun! I can't wait to have my vacation in SF too in about a month!
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