Seattle-Day 4

Our last day here and again one last stop here at Pike's Place.  We were eager to get home to our other two little babies.

On the venue: the Fremont Market

Making babies smile...

and great finds but not enough space!

 It was swell while it lasted, and hope to come again. We were so thankful to God for this time spent together, Lovely's accomplishment, and the great people we met.  Much LOVE for Seattle.  

Seattle-Day 3

Excited to start our 3rd day exploring, and crossing off our "to do" list, we started with the monumental Space Needle.

Breathtaking views!

One more quick stop at Pike's Place.  Seriously, I could have been here all day but we had to move on.

Another try of Seattle's cupcakes .  Yellow Leaf was pretty good.

PJ had the red velvet and I had the chocolate vanilla--verdict

7 out of 10, I thought better than Cupcake Royale.

Next up, Kerry Park with another spectacular view, but this time with the Space Needle in the skyline.

After we headed over to Fremont which boldly holds the controversial Lenin statue taken from the Soviet Union.

Then, another interesting trek to the Fremont Troll.

Ending the night with a nice sushi dinner near Washington State University.  A delightful day.

Seattle-Day 2

Seattle is just too lovely.  Armed with our list of "to do's" we painted the town red.  First up, the much talked about Pike's Market Place...

Our eatery stop at, Michou, a fine pasta, sandwich shop.  

Absolutely yumlicious!

Next on list...

the acclaimed Russian pastry spot- Piroshky Piroshky

Another yum!

Next... of course the Starbucks that started it all...

Then, a little tiny shopping :)

She was great, we love her so and glad she was our tourist partner.

Next up... awesome Thrifty Finds!

Lovely excited to see Atari game console.

Had to stop to refuel at Hi-Life, a unique spot because of its building being an old fire station...wish I could live in it!

And last on our list for the night, "Seattle's Best Cupcake" Cupcake Royale

The verdict--- 

their "Red Velvet," a 5 out of 10!  Very disappointing.  They got NOTHING on Sprinkles!

To end the night (yes, it's this bright out at 9:45PM!) a beautiful drive up to see the sun set with the generous Mr. & Mrs. Robertsons (the couple PJ was staying with for a weekend each month).  A productive, wonderful, non- exhausting day.  We were thankful to God for this vacation, he is much too kind.

DC is weird in here

By Frances

We spent the day in Baltimore not DC but since I have a theme going, I didn’t want to spoil it, plus it is our DC family trip.

Tito Boy and Tita Purit took us to the Baltimore aquarium. They bought us the tickets and then said they’d be hanging out around the pier. We were surprised and thankful. We still had our own family time by the generosity of others.

Elijah loved it and kept saying “sssh” for fish. He was a little scared of walking around on his own, maybe because it was dark. This aquarium was really nice and had several buildings. They even had a mock rain forest with birds flying around.

Tomorrow we will attend the church that Joshua Harris pastors. We are packed and ready to go home. I miss home. But we had a blast out here, and Tito Boy and Tita Purit are very generous. They are very devoted Catholics, PJ and I have never known such devoted Catholics before. Tito Boy is an elder of his church and performs baptisms, funerals, and once a month sermons on Sundays. He is very involved and is considered part of the clergy. We asked many questions and tried to love them and at times through in reform ideas. We love them and will pray for them.

Elijah looking at the “ssh”

On some of the aquarium’s there were signs hanging, saying “It’s weird in here.” Just a short explanation of the title of this post.