Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Mariners and Waterfalls

Our trip to Seattle last weekend was a huge success.  We had a fantastic time!  It was a long drive (but beautiful through Oregon and Washington), but when we got there we went straight to Safeco Field to meet our friends for a Mariners game.  Neal and Michelle Bastian were nice enough to get us some tickets and show us around since they were in town.  The game was great.  The Mariners beat Tampa Bay 1-0.  The field was right on the water and was beautiful.  We forgot our camera, so the Bastians have all of the pictures of us at the game.  Afterwards, we went on a drive to a beautiful area of the city to see some views.
That was our view of the city from the hill.  It was beautiful.  And the houses on that hill were beautiful and probably worth millions of dollars.  Here is a statue on top of that hill too.
Since Brett always wants to be behind the camera, there are more pictures of me than of him.  Here I am with Michelle, Neal, and Neal's brother Daniel.
After that we went to Dick's and had some burgers.  Really cheap, and really yummy.  We spent the night with Neal's parents and watched the Jazz beat the Lakers.  (Too bad they couldn't do it again.)  The next morning we headed down to Snoqualmie Falls.  And it was gorgeous.
The city of Snoqualmie was gorgeous too, and we stopped there to have lunch.  Beautiful nature, beautiful houses, nice shopping.  It was just awesome!  I just realized how many times I used the word beautiful in this post.  I guess that's probably the best word to sum up Seattle!  I will probably use it again for the next couple of posts.

4 comments:

John and Rachel Erickson said...

I love Seattle too. We would always go to Snoqualmie falls and to the Mariners games with my dad when the team had Alex Rodriguez, Ken Griffy Jr. and Randy Johnson (amazed I can still remember the names?). However, by the pictures it looks like you got a skewed view of Seattle-no RAIN??? It must have been a Sunday (it was only sunny on sundays). Remember that Atlanta is just as beautiful with less rain! (hint hint)

Heidi said...

How fun. so do you guys like it enough to go there? Sounds like it!

Noelle said...

Yay! So glad you loved my home town. Seattle really is amazing and you're making me miss it. Geez, Daniel is just as tall as Michelle now. Crazy!

Noelle said...

I am so happy that you like Seattle and saw some beautiful things. Lets meet up there for a Seahawks game next time (a Saturday game of course). Miss you guys!! We would lovei t if you could come say hi in Columbus next trip or maybe we will have to come there :) Phil