We went to The Locks in Ballard one afternoon (don't fret, we made it to happy hour on time...). The Locks consists of botanical gardens, live music on weekends during the summer, and, the reason they exist in the first place, to assist boats in the move from salt to fresh water, or vice versa. We watched the whole process and it was pretty cool.
One night, Steph and I walked a few blocks to the Space Needle. It was dusk on Sunday and it was bustling! We walked in circles in the gift shop and walked around outside a bit. Did I mention the weather was PERFECT while we were there? Not one drop of rain.
One afternoon, we went to Boehms's Candy in Issaquah. They have a chef who makes the recipes and they hand-dip all of their chocolates (only 200 chocolate-dippers are left in the USA!). We took a tour of the facility, Mr.Boehm's chalet, and the surrounding grounds. My only complaints: not enough samples on the tour, and a tour nazi that hung around behind our tour group with a scowl (someone needs to eat more chocolate!). We all bought some oh-so-good chocolate and we were happy ladies!
Though I enjoy my little town of 4,000 people and living out in the country, I also enjoyed living the "downtown Seattle" life. This included lots of walking, shopping, eating at awesome happy-hour restaurants (at least once daily...I am now a "happy hour" addict!), shopping at Pike's Place Market, eating yummy gelato and pastries (including an orange/chai cupcake from The Yellow Leaf Cupcake Co.), etc. The last picture in this section shows a vehicle that's preparing to shoot a VW commercial. There were lots of cops and street closures. We tried to get them to let us be extras, but they weren't interested...whatever! Glad we were on foot so we could snoop a bit, though we never saw anything too exciting.
On Saturday, we took the water taxi over to Alki Beach. It was soooo nice to be able to use public transportation to get around...we rarely drove. We walked around the beach for about 15 minutes then went and took our seats at Cactus--a restaurant with awesome decor/set-up/HH food/etc. After we got our fill of amazing Mexican food, we decided to rent a surrey to ride along the bike path at the beach. We became an instant ourist attraction. We had people laughing, staring, taking pictures, and looking longingly with jealousy as we rode around on this bicycle built for three...or so they said. It was a tight squeeze onto that seat since we're all post-adolescence! I haven't had a perma-grin or laughed so hard in a looooooong time!! This pic just shows Andrea, we have lots of other pics on Steph's camera. It was soooo much fun! The best part was when we'd go over the tiniest bump and a bell would announce our encroachment on the next victim, er, passerby:)
On our last night there, we met up with a couple of [new to Steph and me] friends for...wait for it...HH at Ruth's Chris (would never go there on my own tab if it wasn't HH!). From there we went to a little Irish pub close to the Pike's Place, and chatted a while longer, until leaving to hit up the infamous gum wall in Post Alley. This was the first time I was a contributor:) We ended our last night on the town with another ice cream/chocolate/pastry store...surprise! And I wonder why I have a quad chin in the above pic at Kerry park!!
Overall, the trip was a much-needed getaway for this girl. It was fun to hang out with awesome friends, eat amazing food, and explore Seattle. Never a dull moment!
5 comments:
Maybe I will just link your blog to mine cause you tell the trip so much better! But I will post the other pics I have of the surrey ;)
Nice pics, girl! The last one cracks me up!
Oh, I can't tell you how much I LOVE LOVE LOVE Seattle!! I lived there for 4 months doing an internship at Children's Hospital in college and would move back up in a heartbeat! Glad you guys had fun!!
glad you had so much fun!!!
Looks like a super fun trip! We go to Seattle super often, and you did a few things that we've never done-- thanks for the tips!!!
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