Northwest Trip Part 2: Washington

After saying farewell to the Bundys, we left Oregon and drove up to Washington to see the Maners.

There were a few spots along the road where the air smelled funny. After some investigation, we decided the smell was coming from the mills where they processed the lumber.

The first night, we had a cookout in the backyard. 

The girls had fun taking turns with my camera....

The next day everyone took the day off work and school, and we ventured to Mt. Rainer. It. Was. Beautiful.

While we were in the Seattle area, we tried out three different donut shops, checked out the new outlets, hung out, and Jenn introduced me to Charming Charlies. (We just found out it's expanding to Utah. Be excited!)

Sean and I got to go to the Seattle Temple.

 There were chestnut trees all around the temple. While we walked around, we kept hearing lots of clangs and pings. That was from the trees dropping their nuts.

Sean and I drove into the city to try out and authentic ramen shop. It was pretty tasty.

Us adults got to go on a date night to Seattle. We went to see Second Hand Lions: the Musical. It hasn't been on broadway yet, but it might someday. The performance was a premier and they are still revising it based on audience responses and input. I think it has a lot of potential.

To end our trip, we took the parents and older kiddos to a soccer game: Seattle Sounders vs. Real Salt Lake. We didn't realize when we got the tickets we were kind of in a supporters section....It was intimidating being in that stadium with over 55,000 spectators....most of them wearing lime green. Since we were noticeably supporting Salt Lake we got boos and hisses, but everyone was cordial. It probably helped we had some cute kids with us.

Our trip was so nice, it made it hard to leave. There were some stowaways in our car, and after driving them around the neighborhood we returned them home.

Thank you Justin, Jennifer, Brandon, Lindsey, Katelyn, Dylan, and Weston. We loved spending time with you guys in your own place.

Jenn also blogged about our trip here.