Adam's parents, two oldest brothers, and uncle came to visit last week! Thankfully, he has a surplus of vacation time this year due to paternity leave, so he was able to take the whole week off. Everyone arrived on Saturday afternoon, with time to grocery shop and make dinner at their beautiful Airbnb. I wish we could have stayed there too. The extra effort of getting kids to sleep in a new place would totally have been worth it to play games and enjoy adult conversation in the evening. It was certainly spacious enough, but it was on the outskirts of town and had it's own septic tank, which means cramming in extra people is a very stinky idea!
After Mass on Sunday, we had lunch at our favorite local restaurant, followed by ice cream at Molly Moon's.
We went to Gasworks Park for the great view of the Seattle skyline, the houseboats on Lake Union, and the sea planes constantly taking off for the San Juan Islands. The park's giant hill begs to be rolled down and raced up, of course.
Our last stop that day was the Amazon Books store in the U District. We loved their kids' section! So interesting to see how they incorporated customer's reviews into the store. The table with Kindle Fires and Magnaformers was pretty great too. We picked out a new book for each little girl.
We had everyone over for homemade pizza that night. On Monday, we walked around and had lunch at Pike Place Market. The gum wall is back in full force! (They removed the gum this spring because all the sugar was destroying the structural integrity of the wall.)
We took the monorail over to the Seattle Center and then split up. Everyone else went to the Space Needle, but we didn't want to wait in the long line for the elevator with three small children, so we went to the Art of the Brick exhibit at the Pacific Science Center instead. All of the art and sculptures were made out of Lego! By the time we were done at the science center, the rest of the group had decided to go the Chihuly Glass Museum and out to a nice seafood restaurant. We couldn't subject our kids to another museum and then a fancy sit-down dinner, so we just headed home. It's hard to agree on everything with such a big group! City vacations with extended family are definitely trickier than just going to the beach.
On Tuesday, we hiked Snoqualmie Falls and had a picnic lunch at the riverfront park in downtown Snoqualmie. On the way home, we went to the Salmon Hatchery in Issaquah (not nearly as impressive right now as it is during their annual Salmon Festival in September) and got giant root beer floats at the Triple XXX drive-in. Adam's mom made some delicious jambalaya for dinner at their place that evening.
Stay tuned for part two, featuring my two favorite Seattle area day trips!
We took the monorail over to the Seattle Center and then split up. Everyone else went to the Space Needle, but we didn't want to wait in the long line for the elevator with three small children, so we went to the Art of the Brick exhibit at the Pacific Science Center instead. All of the art and sculptures were made out of Lego! By the time we were done at the science center, the rest of the group had decided to go the Chihuly Glass Museum and out to a nice seafood restaurant. We couldn't subject our kids to another museum and then a fancy sit-down dinner, so we just headed home. It's hard to agree on everything with such a big group! City vacations with extended family are definitely trickier than just going to the beach.
On Tuesday, we hiked Snoqualmie Falls and had a picnic lunch at the riverfront park in downtown Snoqualmie. On the way home, we went to the Salmon Hatchery in Issaquah (not nearly as impressive right now as it is during their annual Salmon Festival in September) and got giant root beer floats at the Triple XXX drive-in. Adam's mom made some delicious jambalaya for dinner at their place that evening.
Stay tuned for part two, featuring my two favorite Seattle area day trips!
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