Seattle Breeze

 Jeff and I just left Stunning Seattle and we decided that eventhough we had a jam packed fun four days, it still wasnt enough.  We arrived tuesday night and went out to eat at a place called Bahama Breeze and checked out a massive mall before the stores closed.  The next morning we went to the outlet mall I was so impressed with Jeff for being a trooper there for a whole 4 hours.  On the way back we stopped at Golden Gardens park which is a beautiful beach that is right off of the downtown strip so there were a few "interesting" people there.  We made some soup and ate it as the sun went down over the mountains.  On thursday we left for a full day excursion into downtown seattle.  We took the train into pike place which is a public market that has every nicnac, flower, fruit, and fish you can imagine.  It is overlooking the ocean and has local music and art everywhere..the very first starbucks was there too so we checked it out.  We ate lunch on a roof of a building overlooking the water and had a little reading time (napping time for jeff).  We shopped around the ritzy stores downtown and were baffled by the amount of money people spend on...crap.  After our feet were killing from walking the steep streets we went and ate at a nice place and enjoyed an ice cold diet pepsi!  Stuffed and refreshed we went to our very first professional baseball game and watched the seattle mariners get smoked by the oakland A's.  We quickly realized that the money we spent on the tickets was not for the actual game..but for the whole experience.  It was fun seeing the lights and destroying our teeth on the biggest carmel apple ever, but the baseball...BORING (no offense) the most exciting part was when we got the wave going!  This morning we woke up and drove to portland along the so calles beautiful coast line.  It could have just been the fog..but the drive was fairly unimpressive and was mostly sloughs..so hopefully the road to california is a bit nicer.  We did stop at seaside oregon and there were some pretty good waves...and amazing freshly made salt water taffy..my favorite was the peanut butter.  Now we just got back from dinner and are ready for another fun and exciting day!  Miss you all..and comment and let us know how you are!!