Saturday, February 10, 2007

Our Seattle Trip

We had a great time visiting Seattle with our friends Steve and Sarah Branine. Overall the weather was rainy, cloudy, cold, and foggy - typical for Seattle at this time of year. Inspite of the weather, we still enjoyed our adventures. I hope you all enjoy the pics ...

Our sweet ride for the week- Chevrolet HHR


SUNDAY
Our first sights for the city


















Pike Place Market:

We ate at a cheese factory











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The Original Starbucks
MONDAY:

Pics of our condo



The Air Museum
This lady was a woman pilot during WWII.
Her husband served in the same war. There was
a pic and a story written about him in the museum.











Here we are on an older model of Air Force One

Concord jet -flew very fast, but too expensive to keep flying














Harbor Cruise around the Puget Sound.
Oldest pier in Seattle
While on the cruise, we came across some seals.















Silly pics-Steve and Sarah in a curiosity shop. TJ and Steve playing some game at the Science museum.















More pics from the Science Center
The space needle was a little difficult to see with all the fog.




















TUESDAY:

We spent most of the day in Vancouver, B.C.



Steam clock

We didn't find too much to do in the city. But, one of the hightlight was definetly the ice cream shop that featured 218 flavors.

TJ and Steve tried Wasabi flavored icecream-Here are before and after photos of them trying it. Look closely at Steve's facial expression.
















Vancouver wasn't our favorite city so we were glad to return to the states

WEDNESDAY

Tues night and all day Wed T.J. and I were very sick. I think that we got food poisoning. It was pretty bad. Fortunately it only lasted one day.

THURSDAY and FRIDAY

Thursday morning we took the Branines back to the airport. It was sad to see them go before us. We then drove around Seattle some more. We went back to Pike Place market and did a little more shopping, ate at a Mexican resteraunt, and then went back to the condo to relax on our last evening before going home. Our flight left Seattle early Fri. morning. We had a lay over in Las Vegas. Unfortunately, we didn't have enough time to get out of the airport to see any sights. The airport there was definetly the busiest and coolest looking airport we had ever been in. They even had slot machines in the airport- no, we didn't actually play any. We also saw some great views from the plane of Mt. Rainier and of Las Vegas.

Self portrait at Pike Place market. You can barely make out the small sign in the background.


Sights from the plane


Overall, we had a great time. We thank the Lord for safety and the opportunity he gave us. Thank you Steve and Sarah for inviting us. Thanks to their aunt for giving us the time share and thank you to Fed Ex for the cheap tickets. :)

6 comments:

Emily said...

I'm so glad you had a wonderful time. It looks like lots of fun!

cranny + b said...

hey guys! glad that you made it back safely;) who are those crazy people that you went to Seattle with?!

Shannon--the ladies event went really well--I was very thankful--and thank you for asking;)

jess said...

sure you didn't use the slot machine ;) Glad you guys had so much fun. Shannon I was bumbed that you didn't come to watch Heros - we'll have to get together to catch another episode.

smlogan said...

who cares about the slots...
what's in the bottle in tj's hand?
(read the godly living clause, bro)

Karis said...

So much fun! Glad you could take a break from school and work to have a wonderful vacation with friends!

Don & Katrina Hines said...

Hey Guys, Love the Pictures!
Looks you all had a really good time (with the exception of Wednesday -- bummer but good story. I'm sure that you'll put it to good use some day just the the "exploding spleen illustration.")
Anyway, good to have you back. We looking forward to hearing more about your trip in person.

P.S. The Lafayette Counseling Confrence was FANTASTIC!