It rains 9 months of the year in Seattle

Jon and I along with our good friends Jessica and DJ took an adventure to Seattle this past weekend for my birthday. I have been wanting to take Jon there for awhile to show him around my "hometown" and when he said he wanted to go somewhere for my birthday this year; Seattle just sounded like the best idea!

We first did the "Ride the Duck" around the City. It was pretty fun and the drivers were ridiculous, worth $25? Not 100% sure but it was a great way to see Lake Union and the Sleepless in Seattle house.We also went on the Underground Seattle Tour. I lived there for 15 years and never did it; so it was definitely worth the $15. Jon really enjoyed it at well =)

We took a cruise on Lake Washington out of Kirkland to see the homes on Lake Washington. It was alot of fun; however I still have not convinced Jon that we want to move to Seattle. In his words "If I had 30 million dollars to buy a house; it wouldn't be on Lake Washington." Apparently I still need to do more convincing on my part.

The Locks were really fun and we were able to see a couple boats come through. Nothing like the summer time where they cram 50 boats in, but enough to show the concept of it. And hey it was free! Nothing beats free!
Jessica Klein and Andrew Elliott 2 of my childhood best friends came to the Mariners game with us. It was soo much fun seeing them. However getting Jon and Andrew together always is a sign of trouble. When Andrew came to visit us in SLC this past spring we went out to sushi and Andrew dared Jon to eat the whole roll of wasabi--- of course Jon did. Then we went out for hot wings and Andrew dared Jon to get the hottest hot wings that the Wing Coop could make. And he did. (of course I'm the one that has to deal with the complaining and screaming of the stomach later) So what else would Andrew do at the Mariners game besides dare Jon to eat all of the garlic on the garlic fries at once. It was unpleasant.
Even though Jon doesn't want to live on Lake Washington, he said the town of Snoqualmie would be awesome to live in. Go figure? Here is us at Snoqualmie Falls. They are doing major construction at it and had the hike down to the falls closed off. Bummer.


Dinner at the Space Needle was fabulous! You can always rely on Seattle for rain and it was no exception while we were there (I loved it; Jon felt differently) but the rain held off for the hour we were eating. I always new Seattle cared about me =)
Our awesome dessert at the Needle. It has been served ever since it opened.
No one can go to Seattle and not visit Pikes Place. It was just a short distance from our hotel so we walked there a couple times.... in the rain.


Jessica and I were in the love with all the flowers. I remembered there being lots of flowers, but it never ceases to amaze me really how many flowers they have there, and for so cheap too! Those huge beautiful bouquets of flowers were only....... $5!!!!
We rode the monorail over to the Seattle Center and had some lunch and fun walking around. We were all looking at the beautiful fountain when all the sudden Jon was gone. I love that silly boy! He sure had a crowd cheering him on as he ran through the fountain.The Fremont Troll was on my lists of "to dos" however it was funny how we stumbled upon it completely on accident while we tried to find Roxy Diner for breakfast.
Overall it was an awesome vacation and I loved every rainy minute of it.