We had been talking about wanting to make it to Seattle before the baby gets here. We really enjoy Seattle and hadn’t taken Claire yet. So we left after work on a Friday and spent 2 nights up there.
Our first stop Saturday morning was to hop on the ferry and take an hour long ride over to Bremerton. The ferry was so neat. It held so many cars and so many people, what an impressive boat!
Once in Bremerton we walked around the boardwalk a little and then took a self-guided tour of the USS Turner Joy. It is a decommissioned naval ship that they really let you explore every nook and cranny of. Claire could not have had more fun (despite the look of the picture below, haha). I can’t imagine sleeping on a 3 high bunk; that would be so claustrophobic.
I definitely would not recommend doing this 7 months pregnant; there are a lot of stairs, ladders, etc. I made it, but just barely. :)
We grabbed lunch trays and pretended to put lunch on our trays; Claire thought that was super fun.
It was neat to step back into history a little bit and to see what a sailor would have experienced. And all of that exploring really tuckered out the youngest member of our family; she fell asleep on the return ferry ride.
We went swimming that evening and as evidenced by this photo, Claire really hates the water.
Sunday morning we headed out to the Space Needle. Levi somehow had made it to 30 without ever having been up in it and I hadn’t been since I was a teenager. 
Every once in a while when we have a chance to watch TV, we enjoy watching the food network/TLC food shows where they travel around the country and find the biggest, best and most unusual foods. So Levi started researching somewhere we could try in Seattle that had the best of something. He found this little gem, Red Mill Burgers. Supposedly the best onion rings and yep, they were pretty darn good. The burgers were delicious also.
And last but definitely not least, no trip to Seattle is complete without a stop at Pike’s Place Market. We didn’t get to spend as much time there as we would have liked but we were able to watch the guys throw fish (Claire loved it!) and walk around a bit.
And on our way back to the car, we stumbled upon this. The look on mine and Claire’s faces says it all, “Disgusting!” The Gum Alley, yes, as in people chew on their gum and put it on these walls, yuck!
We were all so exhausted by the end of the weekend, we really could have used a weekend to recuperate. But we could not have had a more fun mini vacation. I am so blessed to have such a sweet little family.
The following weekend we headed down south with our church youth group to Foster Lake down by Lebanon & Sweet Home. We swam while the first group of kids headed out on the boat.
Then we had our turn to hop aboard the boat and Claire was brave enough to get out on a tube with Daddy. We were going super slow and Claire was beaming the entire time.
Until she had to get off the tube; then we saw this face.
Perfect weather, great company and all around wonderful day!
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