J and I made it back from the beautiful Seattle on Sunday night around 12:30 a.m. (or is that Monday morning??). We had a wonderful trip!
We departed from Boise around 5:00 a.m. and got to Seattle in the early afternoon (it was about an 8 hour drive).
We headed to J's cousin's house first, who we'd be staying with for the weekend. Soon after, his cousin led us to the bus stop, where we caught the 43 to downtown Seattle. We walked to Pikes Place Market, got some dinner at a place called Tap House (it has 160 beers on tap!!) and went shopping for a bit. Afterwards, we met up with his cousin's roommates for a beer at a hole in the wall called the Attic not far from the house.
The next day, we had the snowmobiling expo to go to in Puyallup. The drive was about an hour long, and when we got there we spent about 2.5 hours walking around the expo, picking up parts and accessories for J's snowmobile. We headed back to Seattle, and were pleasantly surprised when we found it bright, sunny and mildly warm.
Apparently, this is not a typical occurrence in Seattle! So we took a nap and then decided to take advantage of the nice weather. Again, we hopped on the 43 and headed downtown. It was wonderful to wander such an amazing city alone with J. We shopped and walked, and walked some more. We saw a march that was made up of literally thousands of people (I'd never seen anything like it!!).
Thanks to the nice weather, the sunset was absolutely breathtaking. We found a little spot to lean off of the back of Pikes Place Market to watch the red sun sink into the bay.
Then we found a restaurant that had a nice view inside of the Market and treated ourselves to some very fresh seafood.
After dinner, we picked up some delicious coffee at the very first Starbucks ever (I'm a corny tourist and demand that we see the typical tourist sights where ever we go hahaha), and walked back to the bus stop to catch our bus back to his cousin's. When we made it back to the house, we picked up the car and headed for the Space Needle.
This was definitely one of my absolute favorite parts of the entire trip. It was really, really incredible. We headed to the top of the Space Needle and walked around the top of it, staring out into the lights of Seattle and the dark bay, huddling against the freezing wind. We sat at a table against the windows inside talking about all of the places we'd love to visit and before I knew it, 2 hours had gone by. I was reminded of the hours we'd spent talking on our dates at the beginning of our relationship and I realized how important experiences like this are to J and I's relationship. Experiencing new things and making new memories together always strengthens our relationship, and in that moment I felt indescribably grateful for the wonderful man I'm about to marry. The Space Needle was the end of the night for us, and we headed back to the house, cuddled up and watched episodes of Friends on my laptop. The next day, we decided a hearty breakfast was in order before we hit the road... We found an IHOP on our phones and decided that it didn't look like a very difficult drive, maybe 10 minutes, so we hopped in the car and started driving. It took around 3 minutes for us to discover that the highway we needed to take to the restaurant was closed for the weekend, and we proceeded to get lost in Seattle for about an hour. We finally made it, and then ended up waiting for the person that we were carpooling with for another hour and a half after we were done eating. It was around 3:00 p.m. before we finally got on the road!
While we were on the road back to Boise, I worked on wedding stuff and was able to finish our official guest list. We're at 174 guests at the moment!! I think that that is a decent number of guests, and I'm excited to start on another project for the wedding!!
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