Back from vaca

I think that once you get back from a vacation, you need another vacation just to unwind and unpack and do laundry and clean the house and pay bills and go grocery shopping!


Anyways, we had a great time in Seattle and Whidbey Island this past week. We did soooo many things! Here's what went down in the crazy, liberal, save the earth, pot smoking city of Seattle--

#1. Air Museum
This was pretty cool despite the fact that I thought it was going to be waaaaayyy boring. We got to see neat planes and sit in them and walk through the history section of WW1 and WW2. I am amazed at how we can fly anywhere we want to go and how a plane can stay in the air. I think dad was the one who loved it the most because he used to fly planes, so it was fun for him to explain stuff to us.




Megan flying a Blue Angels



Mom in an airplane



Toby could barely fit in the cockpit of the plane. Good thing he didn't choose to fly planes! What would he do if he had to eject?

#2. Harbor Boat Tour
I really enjoyed seeing the city from off the shore. Seattle is really quite big and beautiful. I love how the city is surrounded by water. We also got to see a bunch of cruise ships leaving for Alaska. It made me want to go on one!




View of the city from the boat





Toby and Tammy-we were sooo cold!

#3 Aquarium
I really enjoyed walking through the aquarium. We were able to see a tide pool and touch sea cucumbers and star fish and all sorts of slimy things. We even saw sharks and sea otters. Mom pointed out the beautiful and colorful fish that she saw when they were in hawaii. I have never seen such brightly colored fish! I tried to get some photos, but it was hard with the glass and the reflection. One of my favorite things were the jelly fish. They were in a clear tank with bright lights. The lights would change colors and you could see right through them. It was pretty cool. Another thing that was pretty cool was the octopus. It was gross and big and I would not want to be caught in it's arms! Still-it was neat to see.


Jelly fish!


Such a pretty fish. Don't know what it's name is though.


Wouldn't want to be swimming with this shark. He makes toby look small!



The girls were a little bit nervous to touch the sea creatures.



The attack of the octopus!




Pretty gross looking huh!?


#4 The Science Center
I have never been to such a cooler place! We spent a good part of our day at the science center. Very neat stuff. We looked through glasses that made you see things as if you were drunk, and on drugs. I couldn't even see straight! It almost gave me a headache. We learned about genitics, how gravity works, how sound works, and many other cool things. We also walked through a butterfly exhibit. This was beautiful! They had a bug exhibit and that was gross. I swear I could feel them crawling on my skin. We were up close and personal with bees, black widows (the size of a quarter) and other nasty bugs.



Toby is riding on a bike that is holding him up by a 200 pound weight. I didn't do it because I was too nervous! I didn't want to fall!


This table and chairs is to show you what life is like for a three year old. If you are six feet, then this table makes you only three feet. It was hard for me to get up on the chair and I could barely reach the table! Poor kids!


Can you read what this butterfly says? If you look closely, it looks like the butterfly has the word 'suck' on his wings. Don't know why it looks like that but all the white butterflies had that on their wings. It was pretty funny.


#5 Mariner's Game

This might be one of my favorite things that we did while in Seattle. We went to a Mariner's game against Boston Red Socks. It was sooo much fun. We had great seats-they were in the middle of third base and left field. It was such a great game. We won and the Mariner's hit two home runs back to back.





Ready to go to the game! Toby had never been to a major league baseball game, I was excited to share this with him.




Safeco Field! It was so cool to be a new baseball stadium. I am glad that it didn't rain so they had the roof off. But, had it rained, it would've been neat to see them slide the roof over.


The family at the game

Well, there's more to post on our vacation, but I'll do that later.