Seattle.. day 1.

Ok, so day one in Seattle was very typical, rainy.. but it was fun. We started our day with a short walk up the hill to Starbucks.. I had never used one of those hiking backpacks that you put your kids in, but I tried it and I really liked it, and so did Josiah. When we started walking it wasn't that rainy, but then when we got to the Starbucks it was.. and so we just hung out in there for a while till it slowed down a bit.. After that we headed back down the hill, and Josiah had fallen asleep. It was funny though, becuase when I looked back at him his head was missing.. not really, but it totally looked like it was..

After we finished our hike.. We made lunch and waited for Emily Oril to come over, she came down from a town about an hour north of Seattle to hang with us and show us around..

She got there we ate lunch, and we decided to head out. We wanted to take her car so that we could save gas.. So we got all of our stuff packed into her car and then Bethany pointed out that her back right tire was completely flat. So we rolled it down the hill to a level spot in the road and since I was the only guy in our group, I changed the tire..

Once that was taken care of we hopped into our car and headed down the hill to Pike St. where we witnessed the famous throwing of the fish at Pike's Place Fish Co. The stand looks a lot bigger on T.V., but it was fun and the guys were loud.

I tried to catch one of the flying fish, but my camera battery died right after I shot this..

We also got some mini doughnuts, kind of like the ones in San Francisco. This guy was a little crazy, he would kind of put on a show when getting the doughnuts in the bag, and the last one he throws in the air and catches in the bag.. that is what I have circled in the picture below.

This is a pig that is in Pike Place.. I tried to get Josiah to ride it, but he wouldn't.

Bethany totally bundled Josiah up while we were out, it was a little cold..

We visited the first Starbucks ever. It was really crowded and lots of people were just there to see it and not order anything. I wonder how many regulars that store has.?


Sorry, this picture is a little racy.. The original logo was based on the famous painting, and they changed it to something that was green and had to do with Italy, but in the end they combined them and crated the logo that we all see today. That is why it is not brown anymore..

We walked to the end of the market and I took a picture of this totampole. It was pretty hazy all day.. especially down by the bay..

After that experience, we went back to the house.. for two reasons, I forgot to charge my batteries for my camera, and Bethany forgot diapers. So we ended up staying for a bit and hung out with Jon and his daughter Holland..

After we were recharged we decided to go to the fish ladder called "Ballard Locks", and since the tire place was close we took Emily's car to get fixed as well. The locks were pretty neat, basically the boats come in from either the Sound or the other side, and the water is uneven, so they have to get the boats in to the locks and even out the water so that they can they either enter or exit to wherever they are going.. but because of that, they created a fish ladder to help give the fish a chance to survive, and they had a viewing area so that you can see the fish swimming up the ladder.. It was pretty neat.

Afterward we went back to the tire place and found out that they hadn't even gotten to Emily's car yet, and so we ended up heading out for some dinner. We went to this place called "Tutta Bella".. a Neapolitan Pizzeria. It was good, but a little pricey. The pizza was on a flat bread and there really wasn't much to it at all.. Right after we sat down to eat, Emily got a phone call that her car was done. Weird how that works, now we had to drive all the way back to get her car after we eat..

Here is a crazy wall just down the street from the restaurant with the famous troll drawn on it.. I will get a picture of that troll.. We saw it the first night we were here, but just drove by it.

After getting the car and everything, we said our goodbyes and and headed back to the house for some root beer, cream soda, and cookies.. We watched "The Day After Tomorrow". I had never seen it, and thought that it might be good.. Bethany had seen it, and said that it was good.. I thought that it was ok, and kind of predictable.. Oh well.. Until tomorrow..