A few days after getting home from our epic midwestern road trip, we took a day trip to Seattle. We toured the University of Washington campus. On the way in we hit some serious traffic and were delayed quite a bit - I forgot what big city traffic can be like. Portland traffic is not as big and crazy as some larger cities and we don't even get into traffic there that often since its usually weekends if we venture into Oregon. Anyway in spite of traffic delays we made it to our tour on time and had a great time seeing the university.
Fountain at UW
Inside the beautiful library at UW
It was a quick visit but Matthew and Anna both really liked the campus and we got a lot of good info
A quick stop at the space needle - didn't go up inside it on this trip
We visited Pike Place Market and walked around the area near it for a while. It was a warm day - then we had dinner.
And went to a Mariner's game - we haven't taken the kids to that many pro-sporting events but it was so fun! I didn't realize it was very restrictive on what bags you can bring in the stadium (should have researched that ahead) but luckily my tiny purse was deemed acceptable. Phew!! Here I am looking a little crazy!!
We had a great view of the Seattle skyline from our seats (space needle included) and the game was so fun - and went by pretty quickly with the new rules. We even got to see some fireworks after. We had been planning to stay over night but Matthew had a job interview possibility the next morning so we drove home right after the game - and it felt really far. It's a 3 hour drive. Our older kids thought Seattle looked amazing and we want to come back to do the underground tour and see more things.
