The Girl's Seattle Trip

A couple of weekends ago, February 28th to be exact, my sister-in-law and I decided to brave Seattle with our 5 little girls. You may be asking yourselves "What the heck were they thinking??" and with understandable reason. Now Kelly and I have been best buds for approximately 7 years, so of course, we spend a lot of time together and are very close to each other's children. This was actually our second annual girls get-away weekend...the first being a trip to the ocean for our stay in a penthouse suite which, by the way, was very cool. So we had been contemplating all year long where our next trip would be and finally decided on Seattle. Mike and I had gone to stay the night there a couple of weekends before that for my birthday, so I had scoped out all of the hot spots that are also kid friendly. As any western Washingtonian knows, plans are contingent upon our ever unpredictable weather. As luck had it, we picked a good weekend! Not all that warm, but not raining and the most wind we saw was on our ferry ride to Seattle (which I highly recommend).

During our car ride to Bremerton to catch the ferry, everyone was in high spirits. Bright pink lip gloss was being passed around for beauty sake and the volume in the car was reaching ear piercing decibels. By the time we reached the ferry, the girls were so excited that they could barely sit still while we waited in line to board. We hadn't told them where our destination was, so everything was a surprise to them. The sights from the deck were breathtaking as Seattle came into view and the girls all had a blast feeding Cheetos to the sea gulls. One took it right out of Rylee's hand...



The girls were so excited to be on a trip with no daddy's and no boys! Just mommy's, aunties, and girl cousins. It also didn't matter to them how cold it was outside!


Alyssa~Kenzie~Brosia~Bella

~~The Trio~~


~Kenzie's just happy to be there~

So all in all, we went up to the top of the Space Needle, did lots of walking down on the pier, paid for lots of parking, ate an awesome dinner at Red Robin on the water, and visited many shops. Of all of the fun stuff we had planned, the number one response given when asked what they wanted to do next was, "We wanna go back to the hotel and the hot tub!!" The hot tub....well that's another story!!! We had a good time and spent lots of quality time together. Our little hotel room was noisy and packed but if we could go back and do it over again, we wouldn't change a thing! Well except maybe the naked statue of the man that the girls discovered, or the 3 hour wait for the Spaghetti Factory, or the cussing lady in McDonalds, or the diseased man wearing a surgical mask walking around the Pike Place Market with a sign on his front and back saying that the hospital stole his stomach and sold it....LOL...Good times, good times...



(Luckily you can't see the statue of the naked man behind the fountain!!)

And this is just a little something I made from another trip a couple of years ago...just to show how time flies...