Sunday, March 28, 2010

Final Destination

(Seattle, not the Devon Sawa movie)

We saw this cute cupcake shop on our first Seattle outing. Sadly, it was closed.


We walked over to the Space Needle our first evening in town, but it was closed too. Seattle does not like to party, apparently.

This fish lamp was in a restaurant window that we passed by. Coincidentally, we also ate at this restaurant the next day. We are going to make one of these some day.

Lunch at Von's (where they have quite a collection of liquor).

This is the Seattle Public Library. It was maybe my favorite thing we saw in Seattle. If I lived there, I would hang out at this library all the time.

Self-portrait. Can you see us?

The check out counter. I think Jenny NEEDS to work at this library some day.

The book return. Crazy!

I was really into these green escalators. This one led to the reading room.

I think this was the reference desk. The screen behind the desk was really cool & showed all the genres in little moving boxes. Neato!

They had one floor that was completely red, floor to ceiling. It had meeting rooms and a computer lab and maybe a theater. It was sweet.

From the red floor looking out over the stacks (and the gift shop).

Lounge/reading area.

Pike's Place

The dude throwing the fish! It's just like Real World Seattle.

fawg

This was pretty much the only piece we liked in the sculpture garden.


Top of the Space Needle: Daytime

Delicious & well documented chocolates.

Yum!

We took a walk around Lake Union and were surprised by the lack of lakeside restaurants. But if you're ever in the market for a new Yacht, this is the place to go.

Seattle by night

Top of the Space Needle: Night time

We drove back to Cali the next morning (13 hrs, but who's counting?). On the way home we passed Mount Shasta. I'm disappointed that we didn't take any pictures (we were on a mission to get home), because it was BEAUTIFUL. Expect photos from a future trip there soon.

The End.

Olympia

We made a stop in Washington's capital to visit Kelly & Nick.

The capitol is surrounded by these beautiful trees.

We were psyched because Kelly offered to take us on a tour!

pretty pond

George

good luck nose rub

the port

Nick joined us after work and we had a super awesome pizza party!

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Brewhaha


We did a full-out Brewery tour while in Portland. In all, we visited 4 breweries and tasted 30 beers in 48 hours. Whew!

First was Rogue Brewery.


Next up: Deschutes


Deschutes behind the scenes


#3. Bridgeport Brewpub

(We didn't quite finish these.)

Last up: Rock Bottom Brewery

(We finally realized we could split the sampler.)

Tak is bringing his own sampler home. Bounty!

Portland

We stayed at Hotel Lucia in Portland (recommended by my boss and Tak's co-worker) and it was luxxxxxxurious. Here's our fancy room.

They stocked the room with Aveda products, and every day we left a little note asking housekeeping to leave some extra. Look at our bounty!

We started our tour of Portland at Powell's bookstore. They had this cute bike rack.

More bounty! (Looks like I spent my budget on books, oops.)

We also saw this warning sign. Watch out!

We took a walk along the Columbia River and saw a fire boat!


We took an evening adventure to Voodoo Donuts (ooh, freaky!)

Voodoo Donut!