Sunday, May 22, 2011

Washington Trip - Seattle

We loved that Tacoma and Seattle are so close to each other. In just under an hour we were there. My sister Rachel and husband Rob live there, in West Seattle to be exact. Rachel was the greatest hostess. She had great food planned, fun things to see, and sadly more ideas than we could possibly fit in. She catered her itinerary to a Tyler. He has been so excited to see Seattle.

We started with driving our car onto the ferry. This was extremely fun for him.
Rob spent a lot of his time answering questions as fast as he could.
Their little dude Ely was super easy going on all our outings. We are excited for him to start running around with all his other cousins.
We went to a really neat Naval Museum on Bainbridge Island. Tyler continued with is 4,000 questions.

They had a really fun park there with cool water sculptures.
Talk about hostess. Rachel even found the local electric train store. Tyler walked around and around. There were so many neat trains in there. Then we went and got some great ice-cream at the local hub.
Sunday night we went for a super cool drive around the industrial side of Seattle. I think Tyler took at least 100 pictures on his camera of this area. I am not sure how we go so lucky, but just as we arrived at this little look out a little tugboat was hauling this huge empty cargo ship. Those are some big boats.
Tyler loved these big cranes in the back ground. They lift up the containers from the trains and move them horizontally over to the ship waiting in the harbor.... pretty cool!

This is a Missile Radar Detector thing a ma-bo-ber. It is a huge floating ... ship thing. You know, to detect Missiles. It was pretty huge and pretty neat. It is behind the big yellow ship ... which shows how big it is since the yellow ship is pretty huge!
We missed our Daddy a lot on this trip, but we sure had a whole lot of fun!
Darren spent all this time with us away...working! But over the weekend he did get a beautiful mnt bike ride in up at Corner Canyon in Draper. A storm was moving in, but his picture sure looked beautiful.

1 comment:

Lindsay said...

I love Seattle! I've only been there once but it was for my honeymoon so it's pretty special. :) Also, Dave is going to that Bainbridge island place for work this week, cool huh.
I love the picture of you with your kids and the city in the background. You should frame that one!