So, Steve and I finally got to go on our anniversary trip that we've been planning for quite awhile now. It kept getting postponed for weddings and car crashes and re-weddings and things like that. :) After dropping the kids off with Nani and Grandpa (THANK YOU!!!!) we went up to Seattle on Friday afternoon and spent the day wandering through Pikes Place Market and the surrounding shops. We ate a lot of different types of food, saw some really interesting people and just had a great time worrying about nothing and talking about anything other than work, school, bills, kids (love them dearly though)and all those real life things.
(We thought this was cool out in the bay - and later we were on the boat to the island with all the veterans from this ship who were having some kind of a reunion.)
Several different shots of the views of the pier, Seattle skyline and surrounding area from our boat.
Approaching Blake Island and Tillicum Village
Steve enjoying an appetizer of Oysters in Nectar - we voted them to be "interesting".
Jess in the Totem Pole Garden (the pictures of the dinner and show didn't turn out so I'm not posting them!)
On Saturday we went back down town and took the Underground Tour of old Seattle. It was SO cool! I had no idea you could build a city right over the top of an already standing city. There are actually sidewalks, buildings and other remnants underneath the streets of old Seattle. Some of the modern day shops have basements with windows looking out into what is now a dark and run down tunnel but what used to be the sidewalk of the main downtown area of Seattle.
The vault of this old bank is said to be haunted. They tell you it gets cooler when you enter - and it definitely does - but then at the end there is a fan blowing into it. Hmmm....
This was an old pharmacy or something. You could still see the wall paper and painted decorations on the walls. Steve is standing inside the building, behind him, through the windows is what would have been outside on the sidewalk but is now the tunnel we were walking in.
This is one of the walls - a painted frame where a mirror used to hang over 100 years ago.
This toilet is up on a platform - they used to have problems with the plumbing when Seattle first started and these platforms were meant to prevent you from being shot off the toilet by a geyser of sewage when the tide came in and jammed up the pipes several times a day. Yummy!
After the tour we went up into the real streets and had lunch and shopped around a bit before heading home. During our self guided tour of Pioneer Square (looks cute but don't be fooled apparently) we were sure we were going to die while were accompanied literally 4 blocks by a homeless guy who was writing "French poetry" for Steve, another homeless lady tried to hug him in the middle of an intersection and I, according to Steve, was oogled by guy who looked like he'd dipped his head in a bowl of acid while he and Steve had some kind of mental war over the top of my head (I was mostly trying not to look at ANYONE while silently praying we wouldn't die and looking for a door to go into - how come there are NO open doors on this street?!). Amazing what you will find one block away from the normal bustle of life. (and guys, if you want your wife to think you're REALLY hot - plant yourself between her and a bunch of really creepy homeless guys even though there's more of them and they're bigger, very definitely high on something and they have many large pockets possibly holding weapons and disease ridden needles. ) So, after that we decided it was time to find the shuttle back to the hotel and then we came home. We decided that we want to have a Japanese Hydrotherapy Tub installed in our house ASAP (there was one in our room and it was so awesome!) and that we need to find some one who wants to trade kids once or twice a year so we can do this more often (minus the wierd clams and the near death experiences.) Matt and Andrea?.......................
So, Steve and I finally got to go on our anniversary trip that we've been planning for quite awhile now. It kept getting postponed for weddings and car crashes and re-weddings and things like that. :) After dropping the kids off with Nani and Grandpa (THANK YOU!!!!) we went up to Seattle on Friday afternoon and spent the day wandering through Pikes Place Market and the surrounding shops. We ate a lot of different types of food, saw some really interesting people and just had a great time worrying about nothing and talking about anything other than work, school, bills, kids (love them dearly though)and all those real life things.
(We thought this was cool out in the bay - and later we were on the boat to the island with all the veterans from this ship who were having some kind of a reunion.)
Several different shots of the views of the pier, Seattle skyline and surrounding area from our boat.
Approaching Blake Island and Tillicum Village
Steve enjoying an appetizer of Oysters in Nectar - we voted them to be "interesting".
Jess in the Totem Pole Garden (the pictures of the dinner and show didn't turn out so I'm not posting them!)
On Saturday we went back down town and took the Underground Tour of old Seattle. It was SO cool! I had no idea you could build a city right over the top of an already standing city. There are actually sidewalks, buildings and other remnants underneath the streets of old Seattle. Some of the modern day shops have basements with windows looking out into what is now a dark and run down tunnel but what used to be the sidewalk of the main downtown area of Seattle.
The vault of this old bank is said to be haunted. They tell you it gets cooler when you enter - and it definitely does - but then at the end there is a fan blowing into it. Hmmm....
This was an old pharmacy or something. You could still see the wall paper and painted decorations on the walls. Steve is standing inside the building, behind him, through the windows is what would have been outside on the sidewalk but is now the tunnel we were walking in.
This is one of the walls - a painted frame where a mirror used to hang over 100 years ago.
This toilet is up on a platform - they used to have problems with the plumbing when Seattle first started and these platforms were meant to prevent you from being shot off the toilet by a geyser of sewage when the tide came in and jammed up the pipes several times a day. Yummy!
After the tour we went up into the real streets and had lunch and shopped around a bit before heading home. During our self guided tour of Pioneer Square (looks cute but don't be fooled apparently) we were sure we were going to die while were accompanied literally 4 blocks by a homeless guy who was writing "French poetry" for Steve, another homeless lady tried to hug him in the middle of an intersection and I, according to Steve, was oogled by guy who looked like he'd dipped his head in a bowl of acid while he and Steve had some kind of mental war over the top of my head (I was mostly trying not to look at ANYONE while silently praying we wouldn't die and looking for a door to go into - how come there are NO open doors on this street?!). Amazing what you will find one block away from the normal bustle of life. (and guys, if you want your wife to think you're REALLY hot - plant yourself between her and a bunch of really creepy homeless guys even though there's more of them and they're bigger, very definitely high on something and they have many large pockets possibly holding weapons and disease ridden needles. ) So, after that we decided it was time to find the shuttle back to the hotel and then we came home. We decided that we want to have a Japanese Hydrotherapy Tub installed in our house ASAP (there was one in our room and it was so awesome!) and that we need to find some one who wants to trade kids once or twice a year so we can do this more often (minus the wierd clams and the near death experiences.) Matt and Andrea?.......................
